Instructional Technology

Vodafone New Zealand has produced a really clever little advertisement for themselves using only the text message alert notifications from hundreds of handsets.  The product?  Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture like you’ve never heard it before:

(Thanks, Engadget)

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Blackboard 9 is coming to Washington College and Instructional Technology plans to “flip the switch” this July.  In preparation for the coming transition, we have prepared a Blackboard 9 workshop that covers the new features of this learning management system and steps you can take to back up and archive your existing Blackboard 9 courses.
Workshops [...]

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The 5th Annual 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival celebrated with a reception and awards ceremony on April 7th in Litrenta. 

Students, faculty and staff came to celebrate everyone who was proud enough of their work to enter the contest, not just the lucky few who won.  Special thanks go out to our sponsors and [...]

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Susan Vowels tipped us off to this great video clip of facts and figures from a changing world titled “Did You Know? 3.0″

With fast-paced edits and really clever graphics, the video clip paints an easily understood picture of just how much human life is shifting.  Definitely worth watching.

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Dr. Mindy Reynolds brought her Biology 205 class to Beck yesterday for a workshop on merging image channels. Her students will be using this skill to help combine color-stained microscopy slides into three color images while learning about topics like immunofluorescence.
The skills learned in this workshop can also be very useful to other researchers hoping [...]

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A wide and varied crowd turned out today for Dr. Barry Adams and his presentation “21st Century Learning.”  From new language faculty to retiring education professors, the liberal arts education community was well represented and eager to learn about the changes afoot in higher learning.
Dr. Adams presented on behalf of Apple - and with support [...]

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21st Century Learning: New Communities, New Content, New Conversations is an evocative session that will examine some of the trends in teaching and learning in active education environments - and look to understand how we can offer new, exciting information transfer systems to our students.
This session will be offered on Wednesday, May 14th from [...]

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…Instructional Technology gets busier!  We’ve been ordering great new equipment to support iTunes U this fall.  I just finished checking in and assembling our new digital recording kits, both audio and video.  We’ve also been busy preparing for 21st Century Learning, an Apple lecture and the upcoming Summer Advising Days.  It’s been publications galore in [...]

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Introduction to Photoshop - Friday, April 18th
The Introduction to Photoshop workshop is designed a little differently than how many other organizations are approaching it. Photoshop’s interface has an exhaustive number of palettes, tools, filters, and features. Rather than go through every tool’s use, this workshop addresses a subset of the most commonly used tools, and [...]

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Last night’s 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival was a tremendous success!  We filled Litrenta for the awards ceremony and everyone left with a stylish tote bag, a few t-shirts and giant smiles on their faces.  The Center for Environment & Society was on hand, too, to tell everyone about George Goes Green and their [...]

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