Author Archives: Samantha

Exemplary Poster Design

Posted on May 29, 2012

Our poster printer has been humming along all year, and we have enjoyed helping students learn how to improve layout and design. This spring, we identified two exemplary posters from a large set shown at the Center for Undergraduate Research … Continue reading →

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Have You Been Storified?

Posted on May 15, 2012

Did you participate in our April Gadget Day or  THATCamp@Penn? Perhaps you posted a pithy observation, or live-tweeted? If so, you might be featured in our most recent foray into social media: Storify. Storify creates annotated narratives out of what … Continue reading →

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Borrowing the New Projection Screen

Posted on May 4, 2012

The newest addition to our equipment loan program will have you screening movies like a pro, whether in the classroom or in a dorm. We’ve just purchased a 39 x 70″ portable projection screen which, in tandem with a projector, essentially … Continue reading →

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Prezi U Ambassador Program

Posted on March 29, 2012

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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PixelWIC – Exploring LearnSpace

Posted on March 13, 2012

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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Lab blog flows into PennWIC

Posted on February 7, 2012

Blogs unite! This week, we brought the five-year-old Vitale Digital Media Lab Blog into the PennWIC blog. As you can see from the Archives section on the right sidebar, our blog now has over 600 posts, and posts reach back … Continue reading →

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Staff Calendar – find us more easily

Posted on February 1, 2012

You may have noticed over the past few weeks some changes to our WIC staff page. Anu blogged recently about new faces. Each desk intern has listed the programs, tools, and computer languages we are most comfortable with. Though we … Continue reading →

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YouTube on Top

Posted on December 15, 2011

Have you seen that new show on TV lately? No? Me neither. A new Freemake.com infographic spells out what many of us have suspected for awhile: YouTube is King. (Note: Freemake produces software that converts videos for YouTube.) Among the … Continue reading →

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Apps – The Future of Books?

Posted on November 14, 2011

Recently, I was listening to Poetry off the Shelf, a podcast from the Poetry Foundation, and heard about Faber’s new publication of T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, “The Waste Land.” While this poem is available in used and new bookstores, as … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality

Posted on September 25, 2011

You know that feeling when a new technological advancement comes around – the feeling you pushed aside when Google Wallet launched, or when QR codes started popping up on the subway? That tiny, inaudible groan at the burden of keeping … Continue reading →

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