I invited Nathan Stahlman and Jim Voorhies, from Instructional Technologies, Inc. (ITI),  to visit the lab today to show them the computers and talk about the kinds of research we do in ELL.  ITI has been partnering with the CMDC program for the last year and a half, sponsoring our 2D simulation summer study last year and our iPublishing summer study this one.  Since meeting them, they have hired five of our students and Nathan now sits on the CMDC’s Advisory Committee.  But the most important issue to mention about Nathan and Jim is that they are both geeks. So, when they saw the vintage computers, it did get them pretty…

Big doings in ELL this week.  We are getting our Mac Plus back from repairs in time for the first Pathfinders’ traversal featuring Stuart Moulthrop.  Fresh paint, new tables and chairs, and cabinets for storage should be in place by the end of the week.  Seti has organized the media library, and Greg and Jeff have been working to develop specs for each of the 24 computers.