Instructional Technology

Have you heard of Courier?  No, not the font.  Courier is an interface and hardware concept from Microsoft’s R&D lab that seems to be the distillation of everything learned about desktop computing, tablet technology and mobile devices.  It’s also the first re-telling of the story laid down by traditional books that “gets it,” where “it” [...]

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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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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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A new iPhone app, Phantom City, allows visitors of New York to take a tour of a place that never was. Using location aware tools built into the phone itself, users are presented with information about the areas in which they are standing. This information takes the form of phone calls, text messages [...]

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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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Radiant Copenhagen is a fascinating art project that uses Google Maps to depict an alternate reality version of a real place as seen through the eyes of several artists.  It’s an improbable world full of impossibly deep holes in the middle of the dining table and whale sanctuaries in the remains of the subways.  The [...]

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Kate at the Rose O’Neill Literary House tipped me off to a fantastic new application for the iPhone: comics presented as apps by iVerse.  The iVerse comic applications allow iPhone users to read full comic books on their devices, taking advantage of the multitouch interface to make the process natural.
(Read the full article on io9)
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