{"id":491,"date":"2010-08-28T06:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2010-08-28T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:24:15","slug":"technology-postcards-which-are-exciting-to-me-but-probably-not-to-you-because-i-made-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/technology-postcards-which-are-exciting-to-me-but-probably-not-to-you-because-i-made-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology postcards, which are exciting to me (but probably not to you) because I made them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-495\" title=\"almamaterlaptop\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s something kind of silly: a set of postcards I made for Yale&#8217;s Instructional Technology Group to advertise the <a href=\"http:\/\/clc.yale.edu\/category\/twtt\/\">Teaching with Technology Tuesdays<\/a> series of workshops on technology and pedagogy. Each one is an image of older reading technology, which I have improved and modernized!<\/p>\n<p>This was a really fun project for me because it was my first time using Photoshop for anything other than cropping and autobalancing photos. Basically, I watched about 20 hours of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/\">Lynda.com<\/a> videos. (Pretend you didn&#8217;t read that, dissertation advisers.) OK, yes, there <em>may<\/em> be some issues with perspective, but, whatever, I made them and therefore think they are brilliant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-491 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LuxEtVeritas.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LuxEtVeritas-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"OLD and BORING!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-492\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-492'>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal Lux et Veritas sign. I can&#8217;t find the photo I took, so this one come from the Yale Graphics Group at the CS Department.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/luxetveritasipod.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/luxetveritasipod-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"NEW and IMPROVED!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-493\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-493'>\n\t\t\t\tNEW and IMPROVED version!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamater.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamater-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"OLD and BORING!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-494\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-494'>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal Alma Mater mural, which presides over the circulation desk in the nave of Sterling Library. She&#8217;s holding some kind of olden-days thing in her right hand.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/almamaterlaptop-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"NEW and IMPROVED!\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2602588_f520.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2602588_f520-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"OLD and BORING!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-496\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-496'>\n\t\t\t\tA stained-glass window in the Sterling Library. This image comes from hubpages.com.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stainedglass.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/stainedglass-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"NEW and IMPROVED!!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-497\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-497'>\n\t\t\t\tMy NEW and IMPROVED version. The undergrad interns instructed me to show him looking at &#8220;Ye Olde Facebooke.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something kind of silly: a set of postcards I made for Yale&#8217;s Instructional Technology Group to advertise the Teaching with Technology Tuesdays series of workshops on technology and pedagogy. Each one is an image of older reading technology, which I have improved and modernized! This was a really fun project for me because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}