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Recently, we've begun an exploration of digital storytelling at Tulane. It's a wonderfully expressive and accessible tool especially as practiced and taught by the Center for Digital Storytelling headed by Joe Lambert out of Berkeley. Read more about it...
Back in October David Robinson and I finally had the chance to currate a new media art exhibition at the Carroll Gallery. The show - "New Art, New Media, New Orleans" - featured works by local artists and was staged in conjunction with the regional conference of the New Media Consortium.
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Still in Antigua, waiting for our ride to Panajachel . Just a slow, drizzly, summer sunday in one of the oldest cities in the Americas.
Went out this morning before the rain started in earnest to get some more interesting shots and stumbled on a foot race of some sort. Coincidentally, we need shots of athletes to illustrate specific dialogue, so I took a bunch.
It's not hard to design and install a technology-enhanced classroom: a projector, a screen, a few cables and a computer and you have your room. Designing a campus-wide system of technology-enhanced classrooms and keeping them all operating at full capacity every day of the school year with an FTE staff of one – that's the real trick. One element of this elaborate juggling act we call classroom support is preventative replacement, A.K.A.,technology refresh.
Followed a link from Alan Levine's excellent new media blog (CogDogBlog) and found Autostitch. It's an amazing 2D automatic image stitching utility - 2D as in vertical and horizontal panoramas - and comes out of the AI lab at the University of British Columbia. It produces a seamless panorama from even the most casually captured images. It even manages to smooth out the shifting presence of moving people, cars, etc.
Phillip Long over at MIT has a lot to say about institutions preparing to enter Second Life. The school's initial foray into that virtual world was part of an attempt to get freshmen into the right dorms. At MIT, you don't pick your final residence hall until you've been on campus for three weeks. Makes for a better long term match if you can see the place and get to know the character of the residents before you commit to the place for the entire year.
Attended Victor Edmonds afternoon presentation on coursecasting and the state of the art. Victor runs the Educational Technology Services (ETS) at Berkeley, a dynamic organization and a real leader, for many years now, in the realm of on-line media production and delivery.
Been having fun with Flickr. Check out this feed of random photos from my Flickr collection. You can configure it as static HTML (refresh to reload new photos) or as an active, rotating Flash "badge." This is the link to create the code for a feed from your Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne
Now to figure out how to make it a persistant part of the BlogCFC page. I tried plugging it into a BlogCFC pod, but no dice. The codes don't mesh. The guy over at the trajiklyhip blog seems to have figured it out.
Clay? A little help?
