Instructional Technology

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The next two weeks will be bringing quite a few training opportunities to the Washington College community. We’ll be offering workshops on topics ranging from video editing to iTunes to videography. Beginning on Monday, the following will be available:

iTunes U Workshop - Monday, September 22 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
DV: Videography - Tuesday, September [...]

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Dr. Robert’s Siudzinski’s EDU401 “Ed Block” class visited Beck today to learn again about emerging classroom technologies.  The topic of the day:  Video in the Classroom.  Each student was provided with a MacBook Pro and asked to think about how they saw video-based assignments, art, blogging and conferencing changing the classroom experience.  The students were [...]

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Thanks to everyone who made it out to last night’s planning meeting!
The biggest outcome of last night’s meeting was the unanimous decision that we should be using the Facebook group to communicate. It’s far too difficult to get everyone together in one room on a weekly basis, so PLEASE share your thoughts and ideas through [...]

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The second meeting for the MPC Photography Marathon: Fashion will be held tonight, September 15th, at 5:30 pm in the Beck Instructional Lab, on the Lower Level of the Miller Library.
In this meeting, we hope to build on progress made during our first get together. Items to be discussed are:
- building on the theme [...]

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The promise of the e-Reader has been on the horizon for a number of years now.  In the world of gadgets, it’s very similar to the flying car:  a symbol of the future that we just don’t seem to be able to reach.  At least not in the ways that we’ve always dreamed.
We’ve seen the [...]

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To everyone that made it out to our September 8th MPC Photography Marathon: Fashion meeting: thank you for coming and sharing your thoughts with us! If you couldn’t make it to the meeting, I’m passing along our notes.
The theme for this event is tentatively “Old Movies.” Two designers have signed on board to create looks [...]

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Welcome back to Washington College, everyone. Hope your Fall 2008 semester is getting off to a great start.
Just wanted to remind you that we’ll be having our first MPC Photography Marathon: Fashion meeting TONIGHT at 6:30 pm in the Beck Instructional Lab. I know some of you have labs, class, etc to attend so we’ll [...]

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