Instructional Technology

Artist’s Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle create light-hearted scenes using small figures and everyday foods in “Art You Can Eat.”

Perhaps some inspiration for your next trip to the WC Dining Hall?
(Thanks, Telegraph.co.uk)

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Are you having trouble finding links to course content on Blackboard 9?  Perhaps your professor has assigned you a reading and you can’t find where she’s uploaded it or you are an instructor and can’t see your content areas while managing your course.  In either instance, it’s possible that you have inadvertently used the Sidebar [...]

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Well, the semester is roaring along down the road as we prepare to enter the tail end of the third week of class.  We’re back in the swing of things and I’m sure you are, too.  But the spinning globe that is the delightful mashup of people and tech doesn’t stop just because the students [...]

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If you haven’t visited our Emerging Technologies page on the Instructional Technology website, now’s as good a time as ever: we’ve just updated! Head on over to:
http://mellon.washcoll.edu/emerging.html
If you’ve got an Emerging Technology you’d like to see us explore this semester, let us know in the comments.

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To assist you with supporting your classroom during a mild Pandemic Flu outbreak, Instructional Technology is offering an advanced Blackboard workshop entitled H1N1: Sustaining the Classroom with Blackboard 9. This one-hour workshop focuses on using the features in Blackboard that help faculty create an interactive and collaborative online experience for students. This workshop will cover [...]

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Instructional Technology is holding four Blackboard 9 Overview hands-on workshops on Thursday, 9/10 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:30 am and Thursday, 9/17 at 10:00 am in the Beck Instructional Lab. Come to one of these 60 or 90 minute sessions to discover all that Blackboard 9 has to offer. During the workshop, you [...]

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When naming assignments that you intend to grade in Blackboard 9, be sure to avoid using symbols like # in the name. The reason being: when collecting these assignments from the Grade Center using the Assignment File Download option, an error will prevent a complete ZIP archive from being created. So, as an [...]

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If you have a case of the butterfingers when it comes to your mobile phone, iPod or the like, then perhaps this new product from the UK will interest you?

Made of d3o, a goo that turns itself solid when struck or dropped, the iBand allows you to wrap your precious device in a slim ring [...]

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