I’ve been meaning to share my experience about this year’s SIGUCCS conference, held back in April – life and work have kept me busy, though, so my conference post was a little delayed. (Better late than never, though, right?) If you’re interested in learning more about SIGUCCS 2025, keep reading for my summaries of the… Read more »
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Adobe Education Institute 2024: Exploring fun ways to use Adobe Express in higher ed
This week (6/10-6/14) I attended the Adobe Education Institute virtual conference, which focuses on using Adobe Creative Cloud applications in higher education to make learning more exciting and engaging. While I don’t teach an academic course, I do lead training sessions for academic classes, and one of my main training focus areas is on Adobe… Read more »
Statewide IT Conference 2024: my experience
My spring 2024 conference season wrapped up with IU’s Statewide IT Conference, which is a conference I’ve looked forward to every year since I started working full-time for IT Training in 2015. I enjoy the opportunity to connect with my colleagues in IT at IU from across campus and across the state and learn more… Read more »
SIGUCCS 2024: Becoming a Tech Detective
This post is part of my SIGUCCS 2024 conference reflection series. To learn more, check out my other posts tagged with SIGUCCS 2024. One of the sessions I attended at SIGUCCS 2024 was Be a Tech Detective, presented by Lisa Brown and Victoria Waldron, which focused on a different way of approaching and resolving issues with… Read more »
SIGUCCS 2024: my conference experience
For those of you who’ve known me for a while, you likely already know that the annual ACM SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services) conference is one of the highlights of my year – and this year’s conference was no different. I always love having the opportunity to share my experiences… Read more »
Hello world!
Hello, all! This is the start (or restart, more accurately) of my work-focused blog. Here, I’ll talk about my work at IT Training here at Indiana University, share information I’ve learned at conferences, and post other content that’s relevant to my work in higher education IT.
Using Adobe Illustrator to create a basic floor plan
Hi there! If you’re seeing this post, you likely want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to create a basic floor plan. While this URL used to contain instructions I wrote for creating floor plans in Illustrator, my blog was deleted due to inactivity and I resurrected it in spring of 2024 – so… Read more »