Instructional Technology

Professor Lisa Daniels very graciously shared with us an article from the Wall Street Journal that’s sure to strike a chord with many both on and off campus.  Entitled “It’s a Free Country…” - and subtitled “…So why can’t I pick the technology I use in the office?”- the piece delves into the gap between [...]

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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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Here’s a short, fifty second clip of an Augumented Reality concept from Symbian’s developers’ conference.  Don’t know who Symbian is?  They are the preferred mobile platform of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others.  Pretty interesting in its blending of social networks we are already a part of with the physical space in which we exist.

I’d use [...]

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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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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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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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Of course, digital artists have been painting with computers for years. The Amiga was demoed by Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry in a famous clash of 80s art and technology:

However, artist David Hockney’s recent Tate & Royal Academy exhibitions were painted entirely using Brushes, an iPhone app. And the pieces he produces are [...]

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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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If you haven’t visited our Emerging Technologies page on the Instructional Technology website, now’s as good a time as ever: we’ve just updated! Head on over to:
http://mellon.washcoll.edu/emerging.html
If you’ve got an Emerging Technology you’d like to see us explore this semester, let us know in the comments.

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If you have a case of the butterfingers when it comes to your mobile phone, iPod or the like, then perhaps this new product from the UK will interest you?

Made of d3o, a goo that turns itself solid when struck or dropped, the iBand allows you to wrap your precious device in a slim ring [...]

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