Instructional Technology

I stumbled across an article that seems to summarize a lot of questions and answers I hear about copyright. For the full article, visit their website. I’d just copy/paste the highlights of the article here, but then that would be a violation of copyright laws!

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Instructional Technology will be offering the following training workshops next week:

Tuesday, 3/4 - Introduction to Photoshop from 2:30 - 3:30
Thursday, 3/6 - Photoshop for Photographers from 3:30 - 4:30

As always, these workshops are free and available to anyone in the Washington College community. To learn more about the courses and sign up, visit:
oit.washcoll.edu/trainingandtutorials.php

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Anyone who shoots a lot of photos, or likes to shoot RAW files, needs to have a lot of storage space. For those of you using SD cards, you’ll be happy to know that the Woot deal of the day is a 2GB SD card for $7 ($11 with shipping). Hard to [...]

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Instructional Technology was asked to participate in a discussion panel entitled “Who Are Our Students” at yesterday’s TLC meeting. The faculty audience had assembled to hear Admissions, Academic Services, Health Services and I.T. describe the current class of students in five minute segments. Below is what I presented on the topic of social [...]

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I made it out last night to photograph the eclipse, and learned a lot about what NOT to do for photographing the moon. Luckily, a few shots came out pretty nicely. These were shot at 400mm on a 12MP digital body with a 1.5x crop factor; so it’s the equivalent of a 600mm [...]

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Instructional Technology is offering the following training workshops next week:

Tech Tidbits (12:15 - 12:45)

Monday, 2/25 - Crash Course on Facebook

Tuesday, 2/26 - Tips for Better Photos & Videos

Wednesday, 2/27 - Upload Videos to YouTube
Thursday, 2/28 - Post Photos to Flickr
Friday, 2, 29 - Crash Course on Facebook

Wednesday, 2/27 - Blackboard: An Introduction from [...]

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Any with an interest in astronomy, or in my case, photography, will be interested to know that there will be a total lunar eclipse tonight. It will start at 8:43PM, and be full from 10:01pm-10:51pm, and back to normal at 12:09am. During the eclipse, the moon will still be visible, but will take [...]

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Don’t miss your chance to win a  $25 iTunes gift card!
Just a reminder that your entries are due for the 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival  poster design contest.  Please submit your posters in person on disc to Nancy Cross in the Miller Library (lower level) or Nick Smerker in 111 William Smith.  Additionally, feel [...]

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Here’s a few Instructional Technology opportunities you don’t want to miss:
Get To Know Mac - Thursday, February 21st
The Get To Know Mac workshop returns to the Beck Instructional Lab at 3:30 pm. Have you met your Mac but you want to get to know it better? Ready to do more with your Apple computer but [...]

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With the release of Office 2008 for the Mac, Microsoft has now updated both of its office suites. Office 2007 and Office 2008 both bring a new set of file formats to the computing environment on campus.
By default, these new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint save in .docx, .pptx and .xlsx, respectively. These formats [...]

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