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TLT Innovators Speaker Series: David Passmore and Rose Baker

We concluded the 2007 TLT Speakers Series with David L. Passmore, professor of education and director of the Institute for Research in Training and Development and Rose M. Baker, program manager, Workforce Assessment Center, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Penn State Outreach, presenting “Applications of Stock Markets for Information in Instruction.”

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The TLT Innovators Speaker Series is presented by Teaching and Learning with Technology, a unit of Information Technology Services.

ETS Talk Podcast: Social Spaces

A new ETS Talk Podcast is available at Penn State on iTunes U. In this episode I sit down with Chris Millet and Allan Gyorke to talk about social spaces and how they play in higher education. Take a listen!

iTunes U Tuesdays

Chris Millet has recently started a new podcast to highlight the new and interesting content beginning to flow into the Penn State on iTunes U pilot site. His podcast is available to those both in and outside of Penn State. It is worth a listen to get a good sampling of what is new and interesting inside Penn State on iTunes U.

German Department Podcasting Studio

ETS recently worked with the German and Slavic Language Department to create a Podcast Studio in the Burrows Building on the University Park campus. This studio supports a whole host of podcasting and digital media activities across several foreign language courses — including multiple sections of French and German courses. Tim Perry visited the space today and took some pictures. Also, one of the key drivers behind the partnership, Noelle Isenberg, played a big part in the iWriter Hot Team project as well.

Hot Team: Studiocode

Video Tag SmallA few months ago, some faculty from the College of Education approached TLT to talk about their use of a software product called Studiocode. We decided to create a Hot Team to do a thorough analysis of the tool so we could understand what it is all about. The resulting white paper is now available for download.

Essentially, Studiocode is a video editing and analysis package. As Studiocode plays live or pre-recorded video clips, you code them with terms that you define based on your area of interest. You can use these codes to retrieve video segments and build compiled movies. For instance, if you are interested in disruptions in high school classrooms, you could build a set of codes around types of disruptions, demographic information about the students, and their position in the classroom. Once the video clips are encoded in this manner, you can search through them and pull up combinations such as “male students in the back of the classroom who throw objects”. Seconds later Studiocode would produce a customized movie composed of cases where all of those conditions were met. This movie could be saved as a separate file for later analysis or inclusion in a presentation.

In addition to the ability to code and search through files, Studiocode includes video editing, compression, and transcription features. If you transcribe a movie, the transcript becomes searchable, enabling you to compile video segments where certain words or phrases were used. This kind of integrated package has a great potential to streamline video-based research. It can also be used to provide rich feedback to students or for students to compose video essays of their own performance.

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