Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Synthesizer goodness - Pacific Northwest Synthfest, Saturday, October 29 at SCC

Friday, October 28, 2011

Free event – 3 rooms packed with synthesizer goodness!
Pacific Northwest Synthfest at Shoreline Community College
10am-5pm, Saturday, October 29

Head over to Shoreline Community College Saturday, October 29, for the 2011 Pacific Northwest Synthfest, a free hands-on event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Enjoy three rooms packed with synthesizer goodness. 

Manufacturers who will be showing their products are Antimatter Audio, Circuit Abbey, Division 6, Flight of Harmony, The Harvestman, John Bowen Designs, Madrona Labs, Malekko Heavy Industry, Mattson Mini Modular and Synthwerks.

The Synth Petting Zoo will be in room 820. Bring your gear, meet and interface with fellow enthusiasts – all noisemakers welcome – DIY, circuit bending, modular gear, keyboards, rack and desktop synths, drum machines and more. If your device can be used to synthesize, control and manipulate sound, it is welcome. 

Shoreline Community College will provide 10 roll-around powered Pro Tools recording stations/tables and monitors. Other tables will be available for larger rigs. It is suggested that you bring your own table if you have one.

Enjoy demonstrations of the newest products by local manufacturers and ask questions in the Explanatorium, room 818. Attendees can also use the room and adjacent control rooms for focused demos. It is suggested that participants sign up if they want to do a 10-minute demo. Additionally, James Husted from Synthwerks will give a lecture on modular synthesizer history.

Take a closer look at new technologies in a less chaotic space than the petting zoo in the Special Focus Room, room 806.

The event will be held in rooms 818, 820 and 806 of the Music Building (800) on the east side of campus near the southeast entrance to the college.


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New technology fee for SCC students in next school year

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

In a recent entry to the Shoreline Community College blog, Jim Hills reported that the Board of Trustees approved a new student technology fee as part of the new budget.

The trustees approved a plan that combines five technology-related fees currently unevenly applied to students into one college technology fee that will apply to almost all students. The consolidated fee will be applied at $6 per credit with a cap of $80 per student per quarter.
“Technology is no longer an add-on, it is a basic part of a college education,” said eLearning Director Ann Garnsey-Harter during the study session.
It was a hotly debated issue among the trustees. Student leaders weighed in with their concerns.
"Student government leaders at the meeting didn’t disagree with the importance of technology, but they didn’t like the implementation of the fee. “We think this should be put on hold until next year when students can have a complete discussion of the fee and how it should be applied, who should pay,” said Robin Aranas, President of the student body."
The fee is in addition to the 12% tuition hike for the next school year.

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Don’t recycle your old computer - donate it

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Shoreline Community College to celebrate Earth Day with Computer Collection Event, 10am – 4pm, Friday, April 22, 2011, SCC West Parking Lot.

Don’t recycle your old computer. Take it to the west parking lot at Shoreline Community College from 10 am to 4 pm on Friday, April 22, 2011.

Community members are invited to support Earth Day with students, faculty and staff of Shoreline Community College by participating in a computer recycling event at the campus west parking lot on Friday, April 22, from 10 am to 4 pm. Your donation will help humanitarian organizations worldwide achieve their charitable missions by providing them with high-quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers.

The event is jointly sponsored by the WPDSS Student Club, Center for Service-Learning, GAC, and InterConnection (Seattle NGO). Since 1999, InterConnection has shipped tens of thousands of computers to organizations in 38 countries, and in the process has provided workforce development training to more than 3,500 individuals in the Seattle area, teaching them valuable computer hardware repair and upgrade skills.

For more information about Shoreline Community College’s Earth Day events (throughout the month of April), please visit the campus blog.

More information about Interconnection.

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