Instructional Technology

Since his start here at Washington College in 2008, Professor Sean Meehan has been exploring the future of writing and the numerous forms written expression will take. One form that has aligned well with his scholarly focus on Ralph Waldo Emerson has been WordPress blogging.  Sean has spent his time exploring the world of WordPress [...]

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The American University Center for Social Media has posted a great resource on “Remix Culture.” This Remix Culture is what AU has dubbed our current media landscape that embraces YouTube and other flexible, open media publishing platforms that allow for recombination of works from many sources.
Fair Use and Online Video (American University)
The [...]

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To assist you with supporting your classroom during a mild Pandemic Flu outbreak, Instructional Technology is offering an advanced Blackboard workshop entitled H1N1: Sustaining the Classroom with Blackboard 9. This one-hour workshop focuses on using the features in Blackboard that help faculty create an interactive and collaborative online experience for students. This workshop will cover [...]

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Instructional Technology is holding four Blackboard 9 Overview hands-on workshops on Thursday, 9/10 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:30 am and Thursday, 9/17 at 10:00 am in the Beck Instructional Lab. Come to one of these 60 or 90 minute sessions to discover all that Blackboard 9 has to offer. During the workshop, you [...]

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When naming assignments that you intend to grade in Blackboard 9, be sure to avoid using symbols like # in the name. The reason being: when collecting these assignments from the Grade Center using the Assignment File Download option, an error will prevent a complete ZIP archive from being created. So, as an [...]

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AppleInsider, a favorite Cupertino rumor runner, published a piece this morning that piqued my interest. Seems that a company called CourseSmart has recently begun publishing college textbooks to the iPhone. The company sells electronic textbooks at coursesmart.com for a significant discount over printed copies. Students and instructors can then download the iPhone [...]

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The Fall looms on the horizon with the promise of many introductions to digital storytelling in tow.  Washington College will be rolling out the new GRW program, a replacement course for CNW.  While CNW stood for “Community Nation World,” GRW stands for “Global Perspectives:  Writing and Research.”  With the added emphasis on crafting “written” projects, [...]

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MSNBC gives us the Facebook survival guide for awkard adults.  An excellent remedial course for this summer.

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Congratulations go out to Dr. Corey Olsen of WC’s Department of English. His project, The Tolkien Professor, has just gone big on iTunes. Dr. Olsen uses a website, RSS feed and podcasts to share his thoughts and lectures on Tolkien’s work and the worlds created within. Since posting his podcasts up to iTunes only [...]

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RFID - radio frequency identification - modules often get a bad name from privacy activists for their ability to make all products trackable. I certainly agree that there are some potentially creepy uses for RFID technology, it does hold some unexpected promise for creativity.
For instance, Gizmodo just ran a post about using RFID with [...]

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