Monthly Archives: March 2012

Prezi U Ambassador Program

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Have you ever found yourself converting friends from PowerPoint to Prezi? Evangelizing about animations? You might be interested in a position as a Prezi ambassador. Prezi campus representatives focus on promotion, market research, and create sample presentations for college campuses. … Continue reading →

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new Macbooks in WIC Seminar Room

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Friday morning, we welcomed patrons in our PhotoShop Layers WICshop to try our 20 new MacBook Pro laptops. After more than five years of steady use, the 20 Mac laptops in the WIC Seminar Room had started to creak with … Continue reading →

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Marwa Ibrahim presents invocation at WOC Luncheon

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

We enjoyed listening to the opening invocation presented by Marwa Ibrahim from Hoesley 2011 cohort at the 25 annual Women of Color at Penn Day (WOCAP) Conference and Awards Luncheon. This event, organized by the African American Resource Center on … Continue reading →

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Congrats to Eliana Ritts on her Thouron Award

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

We’re so happy to celebrate the good news that our Seltzer 2011 award winner Eliana Ritts has won a Thouron award! The Thouron awards fund graduate studies in the United Kingdom, and seven Penn seniors have been selected this year. … Continue reading →

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Converting your InDesign document into an eBook

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

 If you have an InDesign document you’re just dying to convert to EPUB and MOBI for use with your favorite eBook reader, you may have noticed that it’s not the easiest thing in the world. This is because most current e-readers do not support … Continue reading →

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I Have Three Words For You…

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

I have three words for you: Photoshop! CS6! Beta! (originally I’d used periods after each word, but frankly I was so excited I went back and changed them to exclamation points!) That’s right.  The beta version is available for free … Continue reading →

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Wordles in Weigle

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

You might have seen some of those colorful clouds of word art popping up here and there. Wondering what all the fuss is about?

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Jacob Finkel – Seltzer Reflection 2012

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

When I applied for the Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards, I had no idea what an amazing experience was in store. The opportunity it gave me to explore a project of my own interest and to use cutting-edge media technology was fantastic. … Continue reading →

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A Review of iPad Styluses

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

We get occasional questions in the Vitale Digital Media Lab about using a writing stylus with an iPad or other tablet.  Apple has always looked down on styluses (I refuse to say “styli”), and Steve Jobs famously said on more … Continue reading →

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PixelWIC – Exploring LearnSpace

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Thanks to John MacDermott from SAS Computing, we are excited about LearnSpace, a new program from Pixelture. We’ve just added this to the WIC Seminar room. Now, windows from many computers can be shared on the projector screen over wireless … Continue reading →

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