Microsoft Teams is Frankenstein’s Monster
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that provides text, video and audio collaboration tools with shared files and calendars. The diagram shows how it is linked to Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, and S... Read More
Manually Focusable Logitech C270
Instructions for modifying a Logitech C270 so that one can adjust the focus manually. The Logitech C270 is an inexpensive all-purpose webcam with a fixed focus which is set at the factory to be used f... Read More
Hybrid Physics Labs with “Astronauts” and “Experts”
College physics labs were conducted with half the students physically in the room, each working with a remote lab partner. Since this is similar to how NASA astronauts perform experiments on the Inte... Read More
Potential Use of Steerable Consumer Home Cameras for “local+remote” Laboratory Instruction
In this article I report what I’ve learned so far about the possibility of using steerable consumer home monitoring cameras (“nanny cams”) to allow students to work together on labor... Read More
Using a Document Camera for ‘local+remote’ Instruction
This article provides configuration information for using an in-classroom document camera so that the content it displays is available to both students in the classroom and those joining via video mee... Read More
Visualization of the Cislunar Potential
In the past few days I’ve been following the playback of the Apollo 11 mission in “real time” (delayed exactly 50 years) at https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/. Among all the news rel... Read More
Solar Eclipse 2024
During the solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024, over a thousand people gathered in the Old Main Quad on the SUNY New Paltz campus to watch. Although the eclipse was only partial at New Paltz, it was stil... Read More
Signing Documents with Adobe Acrobat Reader
It is possible to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to “sign” documents. There are actually several levels of both security and complexity, so depending on what you want to do you can either choo... Read More
Collecting Student Lab Data with Forms in Office 365
An on-line form can be an easy way to collect data from students during a lab or class, and with the data automatically loaded into a spreadsheet it can then be straighforward to work with the data im... Read More
New Paltz CAS 2FA and Windows SSO don’t play nice together in Firefox
CAS is the Central Authentication Service for our campus. Whenever you log in to a service CAS is used to either check that you have already been properly authenticated or to have you authenticate, ... Read More