AJ Barse | Digital Alchemist – Page 12 – al·che·mist /ˈalkəməst/ : "a person who seeks the power to transform things for the better…real or imagined "

Strong opinions, loosely held, in and around Teaching, Technology, and AI’s impact on Higher Education.

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Photogrammetry Rundown

Jan 24, 2019

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in Imaging

If your system does not have a nvidia chipset, you may have found that many of the free or opensource photogrammetry apps need it to do a dense reconstruction of your point cloud. Max von Übel has written up his 14 Best Photogrammetry Software Tools in 2019 (5 are Free), that will help you find…
Editing 102: EdTPA & Censoring Effect

Dec 21, 2018

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in EdTPA, STC Workshop, vlog

Following the post Editing 101; EdTPA & Final Cut, need to censor out a face in your video? This tutorial will walk you through the steps to quickly, and as easily as possible, apply a static or dynamic (tracking) censor effect to a segment of video. Things to remember:
Editing 101 : EdTPA & Final Cut Pro

Dec 21, 2018

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AJ

in EdTPA, STC Workshop, vlog

Following the Camera 101 tutorial, here is a brief tutorial on how to use Apple’s Final Cut Pro to edit your video and prep it correctly for the EdTPA portfolio site. Things to remember:
Camera 101: EdTPA & Camera Checkout

Dec 20, 2018

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in EdTPA, STC Workshop, Tech Research

“COOKBOOK” for EdTPA FCP Tutorial:
COLMAP- Opensource Photogrammetry

Dec 20, 2018

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in Imaging, Tech Research

https://colmap.github.io/
Instagram in the classroom=civics lessons in real time

Dec 20, 2018

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East Oakland, CA: Social Studies teacher Jacob Levy has integrated Instagram into his teaching government. His outcome, bringing the bigger concepts of goverment, and being a part of it, more accessible and relatable for his students. Using IG feed of the recent “freshman” congress such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) whom…
Horology makes it on Wired [De]constructed

Dec 5, 2018

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Google Sites; aiming its sights higher?

Dec 3, 2018

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in Tech Research

Historically, Google Sites has always been this quirky website platform: free for users, but always with a lackluster feature list. Recently, Google re-released their website platform (rebranding it previous service as Classic Sites) with an entire platform makeover and offering its users the ability to bond a domain to their site for free. The catch,…
Photogrammetry + iPhone

Nov 6, 2018

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Italy based 3DFlow Zephyr Free edition, is like borrowing a Ferrari for an afternoon; but only able to drive in first gear. As I previously wrote the free version has a limit of 50 photos to create your models- but from this initial test that is more than enough for a hobbyist or student looking…