Author Archives: Andy Rush

Breaking Wind

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by tedreese A little over 5 years ago I wrote two posts titled “Winds of change” (I and II). The first post highlighted a video from Kodak titled “Winds of … Continue reading

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Feelin’ Very Blue

So it took me a while to do this, but I finally took advantage of the Warner Bros. offer to “upgrade” (still love that term!) my HD-DVDs to Blu-ray discs. Just in case anyone forgets the story. When “High Definition” … Continue reading

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Bringing up a Memory

Thanks to my good buddy and DTLT’s “big toe” Jim Groom, I finally found a long lost video that has been haunting me for about 22 years. You see back in the late 80′s I used to work at a … Continue reading

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The iPad IS Revolutionary…

… WE are just not done with it yet. I like my iPad (v2), and as of Monday I’ve been challenged to see how much I REALLY like it. You may know by now that I lost my beloved MacBook … Continue reading

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Psycho macguffin

Originally uploaded by rushaw. First Hitchcock macguffin?

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Bullit Macguffin

Bullit Macguffin Originally uploaded by rushaw. A contribution to DS106

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There’s Nothing I Like More Than Experimenting

Right. So I am experimenting with Storify. What is here is great. I can add tweets from my friends (my timeline), tweets that I posted (my tweets), my favorite tweets (Fav) of from a specific user or list (User/list). Cool. … Continue reading

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Blog Publishing with Storify Part Deux

Let me make this clearer So Alan was very helpful with comments and even a post about how to directly publish using Storify. Tweet Like Phillips Seafood – CogDogBlog Just to prove to Andy Rush that you can publish from … Continue reading

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Blog Publishing with Storify

Learning about Storify and making the stories permanent on the blog. So our newest, bestest Instructional Technology Specialist, Tim Owens (aka @timmmmyboy) came back into the office talking about Storify.  Over the summer, I saw Storify for the first time. … Continue reading

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Canvas comes to UMW

I can now happily report that UMW is going to be using Instructure Canvas for our Course Management System. Here is a little video that typical students might have if they bumped into each other on the streets of Fredericksburg.

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