Playing with Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke

Author: Jon

  • Personal Response Systems (clickers)

    On Friday 10/21, I held a demonstration of the PRS system from eInstruction that we have until the end of November. PRSs are a way to poll students in class and display the results imediately. Usually the instructor is posing a question and having the students click to enter their answers. We will be getting…

  • Podcasts are a go

    The Podcast is now accessible from off campus. The cast is listed on the iTunes Music store under Speakers@Wooster. It is also available at http://www.wooster.edu/technology/it/podcasts/speakers.xml for subscription and at http://podcast.blogs.wooster.edu/ in a more text-based form with an associated Podcast feed http://podcast.blogs.wooster.edu/feed/. Feel free to contact either myself or Dr. Janet Russell about the pedagogical possibilities…

  • Trouble with Podcasts

    We seem to have some issue with our firewall. From on campus people are able to access the Podcast through the iTunes Music Store. From off campus people get a time out error. This seems to indicate a firewall issue or a bandwidth issue. We’re working on the issue.

  • A sad day

    October 11, 2005 was a very sad day for the College.

  • Where are the bloggers?

    So it’s been almost five days since the blog server was announced and not a single new blog. I thought students were supposed to be really into blogging. So where are they?