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What is it? Sophie is a new way to interact with text, audio and video. Sophie creates “books” that contain text, images, sounds and videos into a single, new, multimedia format.  Sophie is open-source software and free for you to use. Key features Allows users to create complex multimedia documents without highly specialized or technical…

The Instructional Technology Faculty Fellows Program is a new program for any member of the campus community whose continuing contract has a teaching component. The dates for the program are May 17-21, 2010. The goals of the program are to increase the number of faculty taking advantage of Web 2.0 and other technologies in their…

Wooster has recently gotten some notice for what Instructional Technology has been doing with the Voices blogging service. We are one of the first schools to begin making use of the new BuddyPress extension and specifically to make use of its group functionality. This semester we have a few professors making use of this new…

What is it? A flip camera is a simple to use flash-memory-based video camera. Key Features Simple, user-friendly video camcorder Depending on the model, can record in standard definition or high definition Spring loaded USB connector to easily download recorded material to a computer for editing and upload. How does it work? The camera runs…

What is it? Google Wave is a new communication tool that combines email, instant messaging and other tools into a collaborative sharing workspace.  Users create spaces in which they can invite contacts to edit text, add pictures, and interact together in real-time.  Individual copies of the communication are not sent to each user.  Each user…

What is it? Etherpad is a collaborative word-processing tool that allows users can edit a document together in real time. Key Features Collaborative word-processing in real time Individual users and their edits are color coded Each line of text is numbered to allow users to specify exactly what they are, or would like to edit…

What is it? The Mixxer is a language tool created by Todd Bryant at Dickinson College.  This tool allows users to work together to learn a language of their choosing by connecting them through a blog and through the free VoIP service, Skype. Key Features Free service Searchable list of users filtered by the spoken…

All spring courses should be available at the end of the day on Dec 19th. Be advised that enrollments may not be reflective of ScotWeb and as such you may want to refrain from e-mailing your classes until enrollments are synchronized at the beginning of the semester. Our goal was to have all of your…

Over the summer the computer lab in Taylor 205 was updated, increasing the number of machines three-fold.  The lab will be used for audio/video production and a host of other projects.  In preparation for the school year, we are currently holding faculty training for woodle.  Meeting times for current training sessions are posted below. woodle…

This summer promises to be a busy one for Instructional Technology. It will begin with a trip to the New Media Consortium conference in Monterey, CA for Matt, Jon, and Joe. They will be joined at the conference by Simon Gray of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. The rest of the summer will be devoted…