Tag: technology
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How I Stayed Connected During Quarantine
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, it became more important than ever to stay connected to others, and it is thanks to social media that we were able to. In this public radio story, three SUNY New Paltz students reflect on their past year of isolation and how they stayed connected during lockdowns. Edited by Amanda Giladi,…
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‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’
In Howard Good’s Being Digital class, students were asked to visually interpret E.E. Cummings poem ‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’. This video uses subtle images to represent the “progress” of modern technology and how it is increasingly disrupting lives through consumerism and entertainment. Filmed and edited by Liz Gaschler and Holly Lipka.
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Being Digital: Robots Replacing Humans
Students from Professor Howard Good’s Being Digital class created one minute visual interpretations of a technological ideology. For the fall 2015 semester, the students had a choice of many multimedia options, such as stop-frame animation, traditional animation or simply a video. In a dystopian technologically-infused world, we will see no problem with replacing our organic-based…
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SUNY New Paltz Baseball Seeks Improvement Through New Hip Sensors
By Amanda Copkov SUNY New Paltz is getting the best of both worlds — athletics and science — as the baseball team works together with the engineering department to enhance their performance. When Kevin Shanley, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, approached Head Coach Matthew Righter, who is in his second term as head coach of…
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Being Digital: Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Being Digital Project – Kelly Seiz from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. Being Digital student, Kelly Seiz, uses charcoal drawings to interpret E.E. Cummings’ poem “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind. For other Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kevin Ha’s humorous take on the smartphone war. Being Digital…
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Electronic Legislative Bills Now Distributed in New York
Beginning this coming session, copies of legislative bills will now be electronically distributed when the New York Legislature is in session, after Ballot Proposal 2 was passed by voters Tuesday in New York. According to the Associated Press, more than 2.164 million people voted in favor while 634,147 voted against it. New York’s Constitution requires…
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Being Digital: A Humorous Take on Smartphone Decisions
After reading Neil Postman’s “Technopoly,” students in Howard Good’s Being Digital class were inspired to create videos which tied in the author’s theories of modern technology advertisements and the issues surrounding them. Kevin Ha, gives a humorous take on how people are now judged based on what smartphone they have. Seriously, though: Apple vs. Samsung?…
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Google Glass Presented on SUNY New Paltz Campus
Although not quite as technical as the Starship Enterprise, over 70 people crowded into a SUNY New Paltz conference room to get a closer look at Google Glass, a wearable glasses-like computer presented by a leading Google Developer Expert (GDE) on April 17. GDE Allen Firstenberg gave a talk titled ‘OK, Learn About Glass,’ in…
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Novel Ideas: Drop the microchips. Turn a page.
Everyday a new technology is suggested for you: Buy this smartphone! You NEED this laptop! How can you live life without this four-hundred dollar iPod!? Call me old-fashioned, please, call me old-fashioned, I’ll take it as a compliment, but I think we all need to slow down and look away from the screen every once…