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ETS Talk Podcast: Hot Teams

We have been walking around saying “we really should create a weekly podcast” for quite some time now. Maybe this will be it. The first Friday ETS Talk Podcast is available. In this podcast Chris Millet, Cole Camplese, and Allan Gyorke sit down to discuss some things going on in ETS. We spend most of the time discussing the Hot Team concept, but try to do it in the framework of the forthcoming TLT Engagement Initiative. Might be interesting … let us know what you think, or better yet if there are topics we should be covering let us know! Look for these every Friday.

Direct link to iTunes U Podcast

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2007 TLT Symposium Information

Some new information is available about the 2007 TLT Symposium … jump over to the Symposium site to see the theme and featured speakers.

TLT Innovators Speaker Series: Brian Smith

Join us for the second presentation from the TLT Innovators Speaker Series featuring Brian Smith, Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Instructional Systems entitled “Live and Learn: Supporting Everyday Cognition with Computation.” Dr. Smith’s talk will be held October 18, 2006 at 3 PM in the first floor HUB Auditorium on the University Park Campus. This presentation is the second of three such talks by faculty speakers this fall — take a peek at how the first one went by downloading the podcast of Kyle Peck’s talk.

For this talk we are inviting you to bring your laptops and participate by blogging the talk. We will also provide opportunities to participate in podcasting demonstrations. Brian will be showing off some very interesting things related to his research and teaching that we hope you will find very stimulating.

Link to MP3

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Photo by Dave Stong

Hot Team: iWriter

Hot Teams keep turning out results here at ETS. The latest technology to be put through the paces was an interesting little piece of software by Talking Panda called iWriter. On the surface it allows you to create interactive games for the iPod … our team discovered you could do quite a bit more with it.

Our Hot Team found that iWriter has potential to enhance the educational experience in a great number of disciplines, from foreign language instruction to science and technology. iWriter provides the opportunity for educators to quickly and intuitively create rich instructional media where utilizing a mobile platform like the iPod might be beneficial. In an age where such mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the simplicity of iWriter and the iPod interface is a refreshing combination that can be applied to many situations.

I have promoted the use of small teams to investigate technologies that impact teaching and learning since I arrived at Education Technology Services close to a year ago. We have done five such investigations in that time … each one has brought teams of designers, technologists, subject matter experts, and others together to do a quick hitting review and investigation of a specific technology. The latest Hot Team investigated a very interesting little piece of software by Talking Panda called iWriter. On the surface it allows you to create interactive games for the iPod … our team discovered you could do quite a bit more with it.

Our Hot Team found that iWriter has the potential to enhance the educational experience in a great number of disciplines, from foreign language instruction to science and technology. iWriter provides the opportunity for educators to quickly and intuitively create rich instructional media where utilizing a mobile platform like the iPod might be beneficial. In an age where such mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the simplicity of iWriter and the iPod interface is a refreshing combination that can be applied to many situations.

Download the PDF of the white paper and let us know what you think. I also have a sample iWriter project created by a member of the iWriter Hot Team for download — I warn you that it is a little big (13 MB).

Podcast Article from Scranton

I got an email from our CIO this evening pointing me to a short article in the Scranton Times Tribune highlighting faculty use of podcasting for educational purposes. Nice to see that our faculty and staff at Worthington are getting some positive press for their efforts. The article is short, but does a nice job of explaining podcasting.

When we set out to do things University-wide, we want to make sure we are really thinking beyond University Park. This is a nice piece of evidence of that approach.

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