May 16, 2008
posted by Nancy
Good news! Now there’s a Seattle Photoshop Users Group! First meeting 6:30 pm on Tuesday May 20 @ Adobe’s Fremont campus. To join, go to http://www.meetup.com/register/?number=248&urlkey=photoshop&returnUri=

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May 15, 2008
posted by Nancy
(Let’s see if that blogpost title moves me up in the flipthemedia popularity contest!)
Tuesday evening’s Seattle Adobe InDesign User Group meeting took an interesting turn when the subject of repurposing from print to web came up. Read more…

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May 8, 2008
posted by Nancy Dick
Separate the technology used from the conceptual learning; don’t overinvest in learning technology, but concentrate on underlying principles. Example: Carl Chatfield learned Ventura Publisher & Macintosh hypercards (RIP), which provided him the conceptual foundations of desktop publishing and interactivity.
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May 6, 2008
posted by Nancy Dick
So BCC’s Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE) and Microsoft co-hosted an IT Education Conference. Keynote speaker Martin Bean of Microsoft had some interesting things to say: Read more…

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May 1, 2008
posted by Nancy Dick
Well, as Hanson requested, I’ve joined Twitter and am following his posts.
So I try to add my classmates from my UW email account, and I get the friendly message:
“Hmm… you don’t have any email contacts. No big deal, you can search for people later.”
The indirect message here? (since MCDM is, after all, a communications-based program): you’re a loser, Nancy.
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