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Rescued by Technology
“I’m lost and I have no idea where I am…,” said the panicked voice on the phone. One of our William & Mary students in the St. Petersburg study abroad program had called my wife, Bella...
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Using Rich Media in Study Abroad Student Projects, Part 1: Video Production
I’m in St. Petersburg, Russia this summer working on a tech-enhanced research project with the William & Mary Study Abroad group, and in preparing for the trip one of my most important...
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Using Rich Media in Study Abroad Student Projects, Part 2: Photography
People are really good at seeing. Specifically, we’re really good at seeing selectively, blocking out stuff that we’re not interested in, ignoring lighting problems, motion, and other minor annoyances....
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What Do You Do When Your Favorite Tool Goes Away?
The icon for Jing (tears courtesy of Photoshop) We’ve all experienced it before. Maybe it was that easy-to-use grading application that only ran in Windows 95 or that version of Facebook that actually...
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Texting While Driving: My Battle with Addiction
Today I want to talk about a great iPhone app for education I’ve been using lately. Brainscape has a very simple but effective flashcard app for language acquisition that has been helping me improve my...
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Reducing Academic Dishonesty by Assigning Web Projects
A pivotal moment from the 1952 short educational film Cheating. Too bad John’s teacher wasn’t able to use a web-based assignment! Many of our faculty members in the humanities at the College of...
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Zen and the Art of the Analogy
This guy’s “computer” has a lot of memory but not much hard drive space. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance first introduced me to the...
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Using WordPress for Student Research Papers
I’ve been preaching the use of WordPress to my faculty members in the humanities who want to find a better way for students to write and share their research papers. Up until very recently, the vast...
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The Goldilocks Effect: Choices for Academic Technology Mapping Projects
So Pablo and I are working on an exciting new project — devoted to student research abroad–which is heavily dependent on being able to include an embedded interactive multimedia Web map. (You can look...
View Article“W&M Mapping our World” Internationalization Grant
Deadline: April 15, 2013 Download the 2013 Call for Proposals here Academic Information Services, in coordination with the Reves Center for International Studies and the International Advisory...
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Photography for Study Abroad: Photography as Storytelling
One of the challenges for faculty members and students on study abroad research and service learning trips is capturing their research in meaningful, engaging ways that can be captured and showcased...
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Don’t Forget Your iPhone! Why the iPhone Is My Favorite Study Abroad Research...
Map of Cádiz, Spain, courtesy of Google Maps. One of the aggravations of traveling abroad for research or study abroad is dealing with getting a cell phone working outside the US. Most of our faculty...
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Photography for Study Abroad: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This summer in Cadiz, Spain, I had the opportunity to teach photography to a group of 21 William & Mary student researchers, and, while it was challenging for everyone, I think we all learned a lot...
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Dealing with File Clutter: Why You Need Network-Attached Storage
This dapper gentleman must’ve just bought a network-attached storage device to help him de-clutter! Image courtesy of the Denver Public Library. Chances are you’ve got a bunch of files that are really...
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Devil in the Details
Sometimes the difference between technology that doesn’t work at all and tools that work great can be really small. A screen capture of the Divvy app for iPhone. On a recent research trip to Chicago I...
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iPads in the Classroom: Using Reflector to Project Displays
Projecting technology has come a long way since candle slide projectors. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. One increasingly common question I get these days is from faculty members who want to use...
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WordPress vs Tumblr: Not All Blogging Software Is Created Equal
I was helping a faculty member set up a WordPress website for his course and we were having a little conceptual trouble converting what he wanted to be able to do into an actual working site. He wanted...
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Why I Want My Kid to Study at William & Mary and Why I’m Eager for the New...
This image of W&M’s historic Wren Building is courtesy of Flickr user K.N.S. Okay, so that’s a strange, non-tech title for an article on an academic technology website, but the College’s new COLL...
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What Can You Do with a 3D Printer in the College Classroom?
My son is graduating from the theater program at William & Mary this year with a focus on theater tech. That means he spent most of his four years of college building props, designing sets, and...
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Project Ideas for Google Maps and the Humanities
Google Maps’s newest iteration attempts to combine qualitative and quantitative data into easy to build and manipulate maps. While faculty and students in the sciences and social sciences have been...
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