Photo Educator Survey Results Revealed
While at the recent 2010 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) national conference the MAC Group revealed the results of our ‘09/’10 Photo Educators Survey. There is lots of good data in the results, giving us some valuable insight into the trends in photographic education. Another interesting result was a pretty amazing list of photographic publications [...]
PIEA rolls out their premiere edition of their academic journal
For well more than a year now, the folks at Photographic Imaging Education Association and more specifically, Janet Bonsall from University of Central Missouri, have been working on creating an academic journal to serve the photographic education community. Today they finally announced the release of their first edition of The PIEA Journal for Photography Education. [...]
A very BIG THANK YOU to the Photo Educators
I hope that all of you had a fabulous holiday season and that 2010 is off to a good start for you.
I just want to thank the many educators who responded to the call to action and took time out of their busy days to complete the photo educator survey. Well more than 500 of [...]
“You can’t know where you are going, if you don’t know where you’ve been”
If you are a photography instructor or student and you haven’t already checked out Jeff Curto’s podcasts on the history of photography, you really owe it to your self to do so. He has a terrific voice, great presentation, and keeps things moving at a good pace. Perhaps most importantly he manages to be very [...]
Putting the ColorChecker Passport to Work for you- A Special Webinar for Photo Educators!
In our first webinar for photo educators we’ll show you how easy it is to get good consistent color at capture. It used to be a very complicated and cumbersome process, but now thanks to the new ColorChecker Passport and its software it is easier than ever before. We’ll even show you how to [...]
A Terrific Fundraising Idea for your School’s Photography Department
Several of the photo departments that I deal with are involved with charitable associations or have class projects that make the students and or department come up with extra money for things like guest speakers or field trips. As we all know too well, this economy is making things tough all over and making it [...]
The new MAC-On-Campus.com is Live!
I suppose I sound like Paul Revere announcing the arrival of the British. Or probably more appropriately, Steve Martin in The Jerk proclaiming, “The new phone books are here!!! But now I’m just dating myself…
Anyhow, I’m obviously very excited to inform you that the new MAC-On-Campus website is finally live. And while all of [...]
Win a trip to the National Geographic Archives!
As a means of celebrating the launch of the brand new MAC-On-Campus website and the release of the new and impressive National Geographic’s Image Collection book, the MAC Group has collaborated with National Geographic to offer college photography instructors and students the chance to check out some of the world’s most stunning [...]
Apeer- An Instant Media Sharing Program presents solutions for instructors looking to teach digitally
In working on our new MAC-On-Campus.com website this summer I have been exploring some cool new technologies. Perhaps the most intriguing technology that I came across was a “real time” media-sharing program called Apeer. Regrettably, we aren’t going to be able to incorporate this technology in the initial launch. Although, I do hope that we’ll [...]
ColorMunki – A Welcome & Simple Cost Saving Tool @ Schools
One of the greatest frustrations that photographers face today is getting the same image from their printer that that they see on their monitor. Obviously the key to doing so is to introduce a color managed workflow. Doing this is perhaps one of the biggest challenges for today’s photography educators and administrators; how to teach [...]
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