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Entries from February 2009

We Have a Winner - 60 Seconds or Less Poster Contest

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Congratulations to Alex Sobotka, the winning designer in our 2009 60 Seconds or Less Poster Contest. A team of judges from across campus picked Alex’s design out of many exceptional efforts from his peers for its creative take on our 5th Annual 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival theme: “exploring a flat world.”

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Tags: Announcement · Art · Campus Events · Ed Tech · Hardware & Software

Open Games Lab in Beck - March 3rd

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Open Games Lab is coming back to Beck Instructional Lab on Tuesday, March 3rd. Join us from 4 - 8 pm for games on one of six flat panel televisions with glorious surround sound and probably the hippest environment on campus.
We will provide a Nintendo Wii and three notebook computers with internet games of all [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Campus Events · Gaming

Truly Modular Technology

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

One trend in technology that has always been predicted by futurists is modular technologies. From computers whose functionality would be changeable by simply switching the configuration of its user components to cars with city, weekend and offroad bodies that can be swapped out in the driver’s garage, the future is projected to be readily customizable. [...]

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Tags: Emerging Technologies · Hardware & Software

Design the Next 60 Seconds or Less Poster

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments

If you are an Adobe wunderkind (or skilled with pen and paper and scanner,) Instructional Technology needs you to help us design our 5th Annual 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival poster! We’ve upgraded the prize this year to a $50 Amazon gift card, so there are tons of exciting gifts from you to [...]

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Tags: Art · Campus Events · Training

A Killer iPhone App/A Life Saver for Comics

February 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Kate at the Rose O’Neill Literary House tipped me off to a fantastic new application for the iPhone: comics presented as apps by iVerse.  The iVerse comic applications allow iPhone users to read full comic books on their devices, taking advantage of the multitouch interface to make the process natural.
(Read the full article on io9)
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Tags: Art · Future Media · Hardware & Software

A Fast Changing World

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Susan Vowels tipped us off to this great video clip of facts and figures from a changing world titled “Did You Know? 3.0″

With fast-paced edits and really clever graphics, the video clip paints an easily understood picture of just how much human life is shifting.  Definitely worth watching.

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Tags: Classroom · Emerging Technologies · Presentation