Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We feature Ohio State’s newest recruit in our Christmas picture. Congratulations Maria! It’s also Taffy’s tenth Christmas.

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SignCommand Good, PowerPoint Better

This fall, Liberty-Benton installed an electronic sign in front of the high school.  I was asked to help with the management of the content that is displayed on the sign and to train others who would help with content creation. … Continue reading

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Ten Years of Scratch

Ten years ago, I was teaching a multimedia graduate class in which we were looking at different multimedia environments that could be used to develop educational content.  The course culminated with an Adobe Flash project, but we explored other applications … Continue reading

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PowerPoint the new Microsoft Video Editor

A long time ago on an operating system far from Windows 10, there was a video editor called Movie Maker.  At some point, someone decided a video editor was too much for most people to handle, and it was removed … Continue reading

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Google Drive File Stream is Magical

In September, Google announced Google Drive App will no longer be supported starting December 11, 2017.  Two different applications are replacing the Google Drive App.  Those apps are “Backup and Sync” and Google Drive File Stream. Backup and Sync is … Continue reading

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