Prof. Douglas Edwards made the front page of this morning’s New Tribune, in an article about his work using videoconferencing to participate in this Summer’s archeological digs in Khirbet Cana, in Israel. Due to his illness, he was unable to be on site, but used video tools to connect daily with staff on site.

Puget Sound hosts the complete collection of images from the digs in its Digital Image Collections. The advantage of having all the information online is:

…the new technology allows interested parties to receive bits of information as on-site teams update an online database, rather than waiting five to 10 years for a comprehensive paper to be published.

IT Staff member Gordon Gilbert and Mark Young, Director of Network Server and Services Group at UPS, have worked closely with Doug on the technology to make the data collections from the digs available to students, faculty, scholars and the public.

Thursday the 14th UPS hosted a workshop on Web 2.0 Digital Storytelling, lead by Bryan Alexander, Director of Research at NITLE, held in Wyatt Hall. Numerous UPS faculty attending the workshop, as well as visitors from other colleges.

A workshop wiki of resources is available to all online at NITLE, as is a bibliography of resources about this topic.

During the workshop, resources mentioned and used were tagged at Delicious with upsdst2008.

Note that one of the resources the workshop worked with was VoiceThread. Instructional Technology is interested in VoiceThread as a tool - check out the iTech VoiceThread information page, including our own get started video tutorial.

UPS is a member of the NITLE consortium of schools, which promotes the use of technology appropriate to instruction in The Liberal Arts. Contact Peggy Firman, the UPS liaison to NITLE, for more information.

As a result of last week’s site update, we’ve been made aware of a problem with accessing the classroom pages. We’ve traced it to a bug in the Wordpress software and we’re working to fix the problem. We’ll post again when the pages are fixed.

The problem has been fixed. The pages are all better now! Please note the the URLs for the individual classroom pages have changed.

On Tuesday and Wednesday July 29th and 30th, the two final candidates for the Director of Instructional Technology position will be on campus.

Each day, there will be a public presentation and Q&A session by each candidate at 1:30-2:30 in the Presentation Room (Lib 020) to be followed by a reception next door in the Tech Center.  We will be streaming each presentation live at our Ustream site at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/upsitech for those who cannot attend in person.

Details are in the email invitation from CTO Molly Tamarkin which was sent to the campus community. Contact the HelpDesk at x8585 for more information if you did not receive the email.

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