Archive for the ‘Presentations and Publications’ Category

In this Tech Briefing, Adobe’s Rick Miller demonstrated features of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator in Adobe’s Creative Suite 6.

He also talked about Adobe’s new Creative Cloud feature. Creative Cloud allows you to work fluidly and productively with some of the hundreds of new timesaving features and enhancements to Adobe’s industry-leading tools for digital imaging, publication design, and tablet publication.

During this Tech Briefing, theme co-maintainers Megan Miller and Brian Young of IT Services provided an introduction to the Stanford Drupal theme stack.

They introduced Open Framework and Stanford Framework, responsive base themes that support subtheme development across the university. They also covered the fundamentals of responsive web design, best practices, and discussed how toget started subtheming using Open Framework and Stanford Framework.

YouTube has become the second-most used search engine to find content on the Web.

During this session, Mark discussed and demonstrated how to:

• Understand the basics of creating a simple promotional video
• Shoot a short video clip
• Edit your video
• Upload to YouTube
• Create captions to comply with accessibility regulations
• Publish your video on your web site

Prezi is a mind-mapping presentation tool that, in some cases, is a viable and engaging alternative to presentation applications such as PowerPoint and Keynote.

In this session, Mark went through the steps of creating a presentation in Prezi, while also highlighting the latest features and new interface.

Presentations have not evolved much in the 50 years since the slide was invented, but Prezi is changing that. Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books. — Prezi.com

On September 24, 2012, Google Apps for Education was released to all Faculty, Staff, and Students to access with their Stanford credentials. Google Apps for Education includes email and calendar for Students only, and Drive, Groups, and Sites for faculty, staff, and students.

During this session, Ammy and Jo-Ann talked about the best practices for using the apps available to you, and demonstrated how to properly log in, collaborate with others, and utilize special features that may be useful to you and your department.

For more information about Google Apps, visit googleapps.stanford.edu.

CSS3 is the latest standard for Cascading Style Sheets (the language used to applying colors, fonts, and other styles to web sites).

Using a mix of lecture and demonstration, this session exposes you to the latest updates to the CSS standard.

Topics covered include:

• Making rounded borders
• Adding shadows
• Text and font styles, like word-wrapping and embedding fonts
• Adding “cool” effects, such as rotating boxes, transitions, and animations (all without the need for JavaScript or Flash!)

This session focused on teaching individuals how to solve common issues with creating HTML Email Newsletter.

Mark Branom of IT Services provided answers to questions such as:

• Why do images in my email newsletter not show up?
• Why is my font different than the one I chose?
• Is it possible to find out how many people are clicking on my links?

Topics covered include:

• The essential steps for creating your HTML Email Newsletter
• Fixing such issues as broken images and incorrect fonts
• Tracking the number of clicks to your links

In this session, Mark Branom of IT Services and Irina Zaks from the Law Library demonstrated the multitude of Open Source tools available to the Stanford community.

Watch this video to learn more about how you can save your department money by using these (mostly free) tools instead of expensive commercial alternatives.