Playing with Technology

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

Category: Multimedia

  • Struggling with student video and marketing messages

    How can we take advantage of our students’ desire to broadcast their lives? This is of interest to me as I participate in the redesign of the College’s website. One of the things we want to have on the site is video and our students want to make videos, but do the two mesh? What…

  • Understudy (Netflix and Hulu through Front Row)

    I rarely remember that my Mac even has Front Row. I would guess it is because I have what are considered traditional TV watching habits. I either watch the show when it is airing on the network or I use the DVR to record it and watch it later. It all makes sense. Where would…

  • Miro 2.0

    One of the feeds I read mentioned Miro. I don’t think I’d heard of Miro before. Miro claims to be the jack of all trades video player. It downloads the videos to your computer (not sure I like that) and boasts over 6000 video shows and vodcasts. It is designed for HD.I’m not sure where…

  • A couple of interesting project ideas

    I took a little stroll around the Web today and happened upon two interesting sites. The first was Fifty People One Question. The idea is to go to a location pose the same question to 50 people. This is certainly not a new idea but for some reason I found the site compelling. This could…

  • A tale of two videos…

    which one do you prefer? Which one makes you want to come to Wooster? 2009 2008