Digital Technology and Culture
A blog for students and friends of Washington State University Vancouver's Digital Technology and Culture Program
Name: Dr. Dene Grigar
This blog is maintained by Dr. Dene Grigar, WSUVancouver. Contact me at grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu
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As I mentioned at the DTC Student Orientation on Wednesday, I have created a DTC Calendar using iCal. This calendar is updated very regularly and shows all of the DTC events currently planned for the fall semester. You can see the calendar at http://ical.mac.com/dgrigar/DTC322007.
Notice that I put several of the VIS workshops on the calendar. I thought those of you graduating this fall (or even spring) who took courses before we introduced last fall the very hands-on multimedia course content may be interested in taking some of these. There is a complete list of workshops at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/vis/online/html/workshops/schedule.html. But certainly the ones relating to Dreamweaver and PhotoShop should be helpful.
We will be offering workshops in Podcasting this semester, as well as PHP and Javascripting.
--Dene
We had a successful Orientation today. I counted close to 51 students in attendance. I appreciate your support for the Program and look forward to seeing you at events on campus.
--Dene
Okay, so I call it Orientation, but it is really a "Fall-Back-to-School / Welcome-Back-to-the-DTC / Here-Are-the-Cool-Things-We-Are-Doing-This-Year Gathering."
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Where: VMMC 115A
What: Meet fellow DTC students,tour the new Mac Lab, hear about the innovations we have in store for 2007-8, preview the Spring 08 Schedule, meet DTC faculty and staff, join the DTC Club, and enjoy terrific refreshments.
So, even if you have been in the DTC a long time, plan on attending. Be there, or be square!
Following the event, the DTC Club is sponsoring a reception at Beaches in honor of the 2007 DTC Artists-in-Resident, Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris.
For more information, contact Dr. Dene Grigar at x69487.
Just a reminder that we kick off the fall semester with the first Artist Talk at Northbank Artists Gallery. The DTC Artists in Residents, Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris, will be talking about their work with digital animation. Those taking DTC 477 "Advanced Multimedia Authoring"know that Burr and Doulgeris' work, Cartune Xprez, will be featured at the upcoming PICA 2007 Time Based Media festival, taking place in September.
The talk begins at 7 p.m. Northbank Artists Gallery is located at 1005 Main Street, in downtown Vancouver, WA. For more information, contact Dr. Dene Grigar at grigaratvancouver.wsu.edu or 360-546-9487, or call the gallery at 360-693-1840.
Mark your calendars!
The DTC Club officers met yesterday and devised a club meeting schedule. Here are the dates of the upcoming DTC Club meetings:
September 6
September 20
October 4
October 18
November 1
November 15
November 29 and
December 6
All meetings will be held in VMMC 202Q and start at 1 p.m. Mark Oliver, Club President, is looking into holding p.m. meetings when the semester starts. He also said that some meetings may be moved to Tuesdays if the group needs variety due to their class days.
We are planning a field trip to Interactive Futures 07, a media arts conference taking place in Victoria, Canada in November. The website for the conference has been recently announced. It is located at
http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/IF07/
More information about the field trip will be announced at the Student Orientation on August 29.
Jon Scheidt, who graduated this summer with a degree in DTC, has landed a position as Network Technician at Ingenuit Technologies, Inc. (http://www.ingenuittechnologies.com/. In his position Jon supports the physical and virtual hardware/software and networks managed by the company.
We are proud of you, Jon. Congratulations on graduating from the program and doing so well!
