Instructional Technology

Well I took the plunge and bought myself an iPhone. After the ridiculous $200 price drop, I couldn’t resist picking up a leftover 4 GB iPhone. I justified this purchase by saying that:

my iPod photo had finally bit the dust
I didn’t always want to take my computer with me to use the web
I [...]

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The OIT cardboard boat team pulled out an impressive second place finish in Saturday’s Carboard Boat Regatta on the Chester River. Nancy Cross, Brian Palmer and Nick Smerker raced their mighty “iFloat” against such tough competitors as “Greenpeas”(Center for the Environment & Society), the “Moldy Minta,” “Leakey,” and “Kickin’ Some Grass” (The Athletics Department.)

While the [...]

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Come out tomorrow to the Waterfront Festival to cheer for the OIT cardboard boat team. Team members Nancy Cross, Brian Palmer & Nick Smerker will attempt to coax their corrugated creation from the starting line to at least a few soggy yards away before swimming for sure. This promises to be a most entertaining event.
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Today marked the first session of my Digital Storytelling 101 workshop. It was a very small class today - just three of us - but I think that was okay for a first attempt anything. My ’students’ seemed very eager to be there and were absolutely great as far as responding to questions [...]

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Actually, creating a brand new workshop from scratch is hard, or so I’ve discovered. Today was my first actual run through of the Digital Storytelling 101 course I’ve been working on for debut on Monday. While the technical aspects of the class worked as well as I had hoped, I very quickly discovered [...]

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Brian Palmer is running an Introduction to Photoshop class this week in the Beck Instructional Lab. Come take part in this hands-on workshop offered by Instructional Technology. To learn more and sign up, visit oit.washcoll.edu/trainingandtutorials.php

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Last night’s SimpleTEXT performance, part of the Storytelling in the Digital Age venture of OIT and the Rose O’Neill Literary House, was an avant garde masterpiece of post modern deconstruction.

Creators Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Tim Redfern coaxed their masses of wires and computer hardware into producing a flourish of text, images and sounds that delighted an [...]

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Multimedia artists, Family Filter present “SimpleTEXT: A Cell Phone Enabled Interactive Performance” tonight at 7:30 pm in the Casey Academic Center Forum. Bring your mobile phone or notebook computer to take part in the show. SimpleTEXT fuses art, music and literature to saturate its audience in a truly unique vision of where technology is [...]

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We’re here live at the Instructional Technology Open House, part of the 2007 Learning Festival at the Clifton M. Miller Library. Guests are walking in and out of the Multimedia Production Center and the Beck Instructional Lab, taking in all we have to offer for this semester.
We’d love to hear what you thought about this [...]

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Noah Robischon, Managing Editor of Gawker Media, gave a fascinating talk last night in Litrenta on the topic of digital tools and media and the way they shape our identity - as a culture and as individuals.
Noah’s lecture was sponsored by the Rose O’Neill Literary House in partnership with the Office of Information Technologies. The [...]

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