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NMC: People’s Choice Winner!

Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS Instructional Designer, was given a “People’s Choice Award” for her poster for the Math 21 poster at the NMC Conference. Allan Levine shared a great photo of Elizabeth. Great stuff!

ETS Launches Virtual Worlds Site

Virtual Worlds Tag SmallWe have been looking at the impact serious games can have on the educational space for quite some time now. One such environment, Second Life, has been the focus of investigation here at Penn State. Brett Bixler, Lead Instructional Designer, has been organizing a series of coordinated activities to look at how a virtual world like Second Life can impact learning opportunities. In the last couple of days, Brett has started posting his thoughts about it. Might be worth a look.