Instructional Technology

By now, we’ve all seen at least the advertisements for the iPhone and its compelling, almost addictive multitouch interface.  Simply point and gesture with your fingers on the glass and the device completes natural actions like rotating photos, zooming in on web pages and more.  Why isn’t such an interface incorporated into our more traditional [...]

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A wide and varied crowd turned out today for Dr. Barry Adams and his presentation “21st Century Learning.”  From new language faculty to retiring education professors, the liberal arts education community was well represented and eager to learn about the changes afoot in higher learning.
Dr. Adams presented on behalf of Apple - and with support [...]

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The Daily Mail has run an interesting piece about an early case of photo retouching.  Apparently these soldiers relied on a quick edit of photos destined for Stalin to save them from scrutiny for having been a bit zealous while acquiring Western goods in Berlin during World War II.  Read the article, “How Iconic Photo [...]

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21st Century Learning: New Communities, New Content, New Conversations is an evocative session that will examine some of the trends in teaching and learning in active education environments - and look to understand how we can offer new, exciting information transfer systems to our students.
This session will be offered on Wednesday, May 14th from [...]

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…Instructional Technology gets busier!  We’ve been ordering great new equipment to support iTunes U this fall.  I just finished checking in and assembling our new digital recording kits, both audio and video.  We’ve also been busy preparing for 21st Century Learning, an Apple lecture and the upcoming Summer Advising Days.  It’s been publications galore in [...]

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