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Author Archives: Jeff Allen
Could SketchUp Reinvent Your World?
I’m enthralled by Google’s free 3D-modeling program, SketchUp, even if it has been around in one form or another for several years. Perhaps my background in architecture makes me a sucker for easy to use 3D, but as an educator, this tool seems to have promise — especially for the humanities.
For one, it’s easy to [...]
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Need a Dropbox?
If you haven’t yet heard of Dropbox, a web utility that auto-magically creates a shared file folder across all of your various Internet-connected computers (or other people’s to which you give access), don’t feel bad. It’s only been around for a week. After downloading and running it through the ringer a couple of times, I’m [...]
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
In 2007, Michael Wesh, an anthropology professor at Kansas State University, created and released a short video in conjunction with his class on “Digital Ethnography”. It’s purpose was to demonstrate the broadening impact and daunting possibilities of a wired world. In less than ten days, his YouTube video rose to the top of most major tech tracking [...]