Thank you for attending the 2023 CELT Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium and visiting the VR Exhibit during the Lunch: Food for Thought session. During the Summer of 2020, I used a Garmin VIRB 360 camera to help Dr. Darcy Lonsdale at SoMAS film a virtual field trip to the Rocky Intertidal Zone at Crane…Continue Reading Virtual Fieldtrips using 360 Video
At the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, I have had the amazing opportunity to be connected to a variety of projects where my technical and multimedia experience can introduce SoMAS content to a wider audience. One of my main goals at SoMAS is to digitize our historical content and archive it online, through our…Continue Reading Restoring The Great Garbage Chase
There’s a complicated process for capturing and processing the content that is used to build the mosaic images of the Breach at Old Inlet. With Dr. Charlie Flagg capturing the images from his airplane, I process the video into a collection of PNG files and build a panoramic image and Dr. Flagg takes that image…Continue Reading SoMAS Mosaic Image Process
UPDATE 202x: Picasaweb is dead UPDATE 2017-02-09 I found a slight solution that works but who knows for how long. If you upload your photo albums using an old version of Picasa and set the permissions to public on the album when you upload, you can use existing Flash photo album code to display an…Continue Reading Migrating from Picasaweb to Google Photos and Slideshows on WordPress
This is Part 2 of my write up on the SoMAS Website. This post discusses the changes I have implemented on the existing website created by AWP from 2011 to late 2014. Alumni Database and People Directory Lists of our alumni were available on the SoMAS website as six different pages, organized by either…Continue Reading The SoMAS Website (Part 2)
As detailed in my previous post, I am using the Google Camera App on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to create Photosphere images of the places at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and other parts of the Stony Brook University campus. A photosphere can be created by simply moving your phone around to the dots…Continue Reading Capturing Photospheres With a Mount
Photospheres are awesome 360+ degree images that capture the entire area around the camera. The most recognizable form of photosphere is Google Maps’s Streetview, which allows you to visit locations and see what it would look like from your car window. Thankfully, newer smartphones are now capable of capturing photospheres. Stony Brook University has a…Continue Reading Photospheres at Stony Brook University
If you wish to remove images and HTML-formatted content from your email in Google Apps Mail, you can easily turn on PLAIN TEXT MODE in the compose window. In the lower right corner of your compose window, click the triangle button that says “MORE OPTIONS” Choose “PLAIN TEXT MODE” The HTML links in your signature…Continue Reading Strip HTML and images from your email in Google Mail with PLAIN TEXT MODE
Elegant Themes, creators of the Divi theme, have a nice resource for icon fonts: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/elegant-icon-font They also have a good resource for the customization options available with Icon fonts: How To Use And Embed An Icon Font On Your Website It just isn’t entirely obvious how you can use icon fonts anywhere you’d like on…Continue Reading Using Icon Fonts in all content
I have a few vanity URLs on my sites that I use to forward a URL to a particular page deeper on my website and wanted to maintain that feature on WordPress/SB You. A Google search revealed From this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7320145/html-redirect-within-body-tags The following was suggested: If you can use Javascript, something like this should help…Continue Reading Redirect a post or page to another URL