Instructional Technology

Here are a few samples of photos I shot at some of the workshops during the Photography Marathon.  I’m waiting for the other photographers to do their edits and retouching, and a more complete gallery of this and other workshops will follow in the next week or so.
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On Friday, Brian Palmer ran an afternoon photography workshop entitled “Lighting Experiments” in the Beck Instructional Lab as part of the 2007 Photography Marathon.  Like all of Brian’s workshops, Friday’s put the Washington College community behind the camera, allowing participants to practice shooting in a professional capacity.

For Lighting Experiments, students were given the chance to [...]

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The Photography Marathon is in full stride, but it’s not too late to get involved!  We still have 10 more workshops between tomorrow (10/26), and a week from tomorrow (11/2).  There are some workshops that are filling up fast, but some still have plenty of room.
Go to http://mpc.washcoll.edu/photomarathon.php and click on the workshop names to [...]

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Yesterday, Oni Buchanan gave an intimate reading of her innovative poems in the Rose O’Neill Literary House.  Oni discussed both digital and analog poetry, sharing examples of work she has created in both paradigms.

Oni has pioneered poetic form by creating origami sculptures and liquid pages of Flash animation.  Her “The Mandrake Vehicles” use digital storytelling [...]

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Nokia N95 Mobile Journalism Kit
For those of you who know me, I am both a mobile telephony and Nokia fan, so this article was particularly intriguing. Mobile blogging and photo-taking are both here now…how long until we see journalists working almost entirely from mobile handsets?

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As part of the Storytelling in the Digital Age partnership between OIT and the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Diane Landskroener and Nick Smerker will be co-teaching an Introduction to InDesign workshop. This opportunity is coming only once this semester and is being offered on Wednesday, October 24 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm. The workshop will [...]

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Innovative poet, Oni Buchanan, will be reading and performing her work “The Mandrake Vehicles” this afternoon at 4:30 in the Rose O’Neill Literary House. The event will also include a question and answer session with Oni on the topic of the future of verse.
Come out to the Literary House for amazing interactive poetry and stay [...]

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Class went out yesterday with a flourish.  We learned more about clipping paths and then transitioned into learning about effects.  I was surprised to learn that InDesign CS3 has inherited many of the effects normally associated with Illustrator and Photoshop.  The ability to add blurs, drop shadows and the like was really interesting to me.  [...]

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Thank you to EVERYONE who participated in the Instructional Technology training survey over the last two weeks.  We collected over 150 responses from the Washington College community and have some really useful information on which to base our offerings for the Spring.  We have a lot of work ahead of us, but thanks to you, [...]

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Yesterday’s class was very busy so I didn’t have much chance to liveblog my notes. I’ve decided to post them this morning, instead, as a summary.
We worked mostly yesterday with flows, particularly the differences between different modified text flows. I can see this being a very big help in the future as I design new [...]

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