Biographical Information
Liam Moran produces curricular digital media and manages the servers to store, process, and deliver it at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
Articles for Liam Moran
An Impending Accessibility Backlash
28 Aug 2023
Software developers are trained in accessibility issues for front-end development and basic concepts like labeling control elements and reporting state changes to assistive technology—screen-readers—are part of a professional developer's code testing procedures. Despite this progress, two very different forces are swirling with the potential to push back on the trend towards better technological inclusion of the disabled.
Follow-the-Presenter Tools for DIY Instructional Videos
20 Jun 2023
Until fairly recently, if a teacher wanted to produce a DIY instructional video untethered to a fixed point in front of a camera, they'd need to remotely control either a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) head or a multicamera switcher. With the arrival of competent and inexpensive facial recognition software, several consumer videoconferencing cameras now offer automatic framing to allow teachers or other presenters to move around a scene to better engage with viewers and interact with props and visual aids.