Instructional Technology

…I have absolutely no idea how this is working, really.  It seems simple enough, from the description, but actually making it happen in practice seems a bit difficult.  However, I guarantee that we’ll be seeing it in music videos, movies and the like as a new “it” effect soon.  And then it will trickle down [...]

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(Brian:  You’ll love this one.)
A German artist, Julius von Bismarck, has invented a weapon that he calls the “Image Fulgrator.”  The device, ominously shaped like a sawed off shot gun, is responsible for disrupting the lives of countless tourists all over Berlin.  What does it do?  Bismarck’s invention inserts images and text into real world [...]

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Check out the July 2008 issue of Vanity Fair for How the Web Was Won: An Oral History of the Internet. It traces the development of the web from the perspective of many of the key players. It gives you a peek into some of the thoughts that went into decision-making at pivotal moments.

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A new article in The Atlantic asks the question:  Is Google Making Us Stupid?
After reading what writer Nicholas Carr has to say on the question - combined with my own observations of self and others - I have to say that I agree with his tentative “yes.”
If you’ve been finding it harder and harder to [...]

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Recently, Radiohead initiated a fan video contest in conjunction with Aniboom.  The stakes are nearly $20,000 worth of prizes and a chance to have your work reviewed by Radiohead themselves.  Many great entries poured in over the last few weeks, but one has stood out.
A submission from James Houston entitled “Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any)” [...]

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Instructional Technology has been diligently working on Washington College’s own public iTunes U site over the last few months. Today, we are pleased to announce that we will be launching our initial content during the Fall 2008 semester.
In order to make the iTunes U launch as successful as possible, we would like to ask all [...]

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Speakers are ugly, be-wired things that park themselves on your desk and generally look like dull black blocks of boring plastic.  If you are an aesthetics freak like me, you are deeply offended by such bold sweeps of mundanity on an otherwise attractive work surface.
Personally, I found flat panel speakers that I could mount to [...]

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