You can’t stop the beast. No matter how hard you try, students will use their phones or laptops to get on the internet during class. How else are we going to tell the world that we are in class if we can’t update our statuses? Since cell phones became more affordable in the past 10-15 […]
Author: moniquemcgee
Projection Mapping: Bending Moving Images to Your Will and to Your Wall
Projection Mapping (also called Video Mapping or Spacial Augmented Reality) is a relatively new technology that allows a designer to use an irregular surface as a projection screen. While it was first used in 1969 (using 8mm film- see video below) at Disneyland to premiere a new attraction, high resolution, digital 3D usage is just […]
Just Me, Myself and my iPad
If you have ever read any of my blogs, you probably know that I have a weird affection for apps. This semester, I am trying somewhat of a self-study to see if I can get through the entire semester, only using an iPad. Here are the rules: 1. All of my textbooks will be on […]
The Art of Awesome Poster Presentations
Not to toot my own horn but I’ve been known to put together some pretty great poster presentations. Some people think that you have to be a professional graphic designer in order to produce a high quality presentation but that is absolutely not true. I am going to give you a few tips to make […]
Fighting Stress with Apps
Stress– or its alternate pronunciation, FINALS– can be straining both mentally and physically. There are a lot of recommendations from various medical sources about how to cope with this kind of stress that include deep breathing, exercising or, my favorite, retail therapy, however I found a few apps that can be beneficial during this time […]
The Robots are Coming: Robotic Telepresence In the Classroom
If I would have tried to write this article 10 years ago, I would have thought I was completely insane. I can barely believe I can get away with writing it now. Remember in the old cartoons like the Jetsons where in the classroom scenes, some of the teachers and students were robots? Well guess […]
Let’s do the time-lapse AGAIN
Failure does not taste good. Its tastes similar to if I marinated some brussels sprouts in a nice ketchup and white wine reduction before grilling it next to some sort of smelly fish. I digress. Here is the situation. I’ve been working on a project where I am testing different time-lapse and hyper-lapse techniques. So […]
Photoshop: A world of pure imagination
When I think of Photoshop, I think of the chocolate room scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, “What you’ll see will defy explanation”. That may sound like an exaggeration but in my world, you can create almost any type of art using this software. Especially with the new Photoshop CC which provides more […]
Trello…. Is it me you’re looking for?
There is definitely an art to mastering effective time management. This is a skill I wish I had worked more at as an undergrad student because in graduate school, the lack of time management can be the difference between sinking and swimming in your program. Recently, I started looking for apps (I truly believe that […]
How to be sick and not miss class
“Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.” Plato – The Republic- Book II I have almost successfully missed the entire first week of school, stuck at home with a sinus infection. Good times! And by good […]
