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TLT CoffeeRead: University produces highest-resolution screen in the world for research
University produces highest-resolution screen in the world for research.
“University of California, San Diego researchers now have an up-close view of their work, aided by nearly 290 million pixels, after the school built what’s reportedly the highest-resolution screen in the world.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a research group affiliated with UC-San Diego, announced earlier this month that it has completed work on the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Screen (HIPerSpace), which features 286.7 million pixels. The display is 31.8 feet wide and 7.5 feet tall, and it includes 14 columns of screens. The second-highest-resolution screen in the world, NASA’s hyperwall-2, has 256 million pixels. San Diego’s record setter is 30 percent bigger than the university’s last high-resolution display, officials said.”
ITS should produce the one that breaks the 300-million pixel mark. Interesting to note what the plans for this screen.
BuzzLion for the Week of July 20
BuzzLion is going to begin by talking about summer camp. No, not the kind of summer camp with mosquitoes, swimming in a lake, and having your canoe put up in a tree, but the Learning Design Summer Camp, coming up August 12-13. It’s an event that is re-examining the concept of learning design. You can learn more by visiting the Learning Design Summer Camp wiki. Interestingly enough, the event has used this wiki PLAN the event via volunteers in the Penn State community. Definitely a different way of doing things.
Cole Camplese, ETS director, explains further how different the Learning Design Summer Camp really is when compared to other events. He discusses a concept called “Open Event Planning” in his most recent blog post.
Chris Stubbs, ETS Collaborative Developer, has uncovered a very interesting tool called Inform that is sort of like a game that helps people learn how to do creative writing. How on earth does it do that? Stubbs gives you the low-down in his blog, The Voices in My Head.
Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, talks about Web site accessibility, an important issue for an institute like Penn State. She has found an interesting conundrum – as students who are novice Web designers create Web portfolios, how do we help them make them more accessible?
Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, is a major proponent of educational gaming, and is also a big proponent of introducing educational games to the library. Sound crazy to have Wiis in such a quiet place? Think again – this isn’t your father’s library these days.
Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, has a reminder – Adobe Connect, the remote meeting software, is going to be upgraded to Version 7 on July 30. Yvonne posted a quick reminder recently about documentation on the Connect Community Hub: http://meeting.psu.edu/node/433
BuzzLion will end with a quick suggestion – the links to these blog posts are often not the only things these ETS staffers have written for the week. BuzzLion encourages you to explore their blogs, look at archives including anything written this week, and do a few searches. There is tons of great content and information to be found on our blogs and community hubs.
That’s all for this week – have a great weekend and see you next Friday.
ETS Site via Wordle
Gary Chinn took a minute to run this site through the really cool content visualization tool Wordle. The resulting tag cloud below is what he got. I like that the words students, technologies, educational, and learning are similar in size. Thanks to Gary!
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TLT CoffeeRead: Doctors, Ph.D.s to edit new Wikipedia of medical information
Doctors, Ph.D.s to edit new Wikipedia of medical information
“July 23, 2008 (Computerworld) A project launched today aims to create what is in essence a medical version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia focused on explaining conditions, drugs, procedures, medical facilities and other topics written by physicians and Ph.D.s.
The Medpedia Project launched a preview of its site on Wednesday with the support of medical heavyweights such as the Harvard Medical School, the Stanford School of Medicine, the University of Michigan Medical School and the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.”
How could the Hershey Medical Center use this for teaching?
Countdown to Camp 3: Primer for Three Sessions and Update on Discussion Topics
Hi Everyone. In our third of five “Countdown to Camp” notes, I’d like you to get thinking about some of the main sessions that we’ll be having. In each of these four sessions, the presenters will talk about their topic for about 20 minutes and then open the floor for a more general discussion.
1. Scott McDonald and Cole Camplese used a variety of technologies in a Curriculum and Instruction course that they co-taught this spring. One of these technologies pulled together blog posts that students were writing to a central location, where they were rated and discussed. The most highly rated posts became topics for future class discussions. All of this happened in the open and can be viewed online by going to their class social rating site. We also have a whitepaper about social rating systems if you would like to learn more about these kinds of technologies.
2. Matt Jackson, from the College of Communications, will be talking about topics such as copyright, digital media, mashups, the TEACH Act, Fair Use, and Creative Commons. The Digital Commons staff and I talked with Matt Jackson (which we recorded) a couple of months ago and he was able to clarify some misconceptions that we had about the use of digital media for educational purposes. This was a nice compliment to Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation at the 2008 TLT Symposium.
3.Carla Zembal-Saul is working with ETS over the summer on the idea of Blogs as Portfolio. She has been using a wiki to keep track of her thoughts, plans, and resources. If Carla’s name sounds familiar, it may be because she and Scott McDonald were featured at the TLT Symposium’s “Faculty Success Stories” series for their use of Studiocode to help students analyze their teaching practice. Carla also participated in the pilot of the Podcasts at Penn State project and got attention for her class’s podcast about Honey Bee Colony Collapse.
4. Finally, I have begun shaping the Discussion Topics that you have submitted into our two lunch times and the morning of Day 2. During lunch on Day 1, we will break up into groups to discuss topics like harnessing backchannel communication, building online communities, accessibile courseware and tools, educational gaming, competencies for online teaching, and creating new learning environments. At the end of Day 1, we will have a “pitch session” where people can describe topics that they would like to discuss during Day 2. These topics can be set before the Summer Camp or topics based on new ideas or questions that come up during camp. Read more about these sessions in the Summer Camp wiki and propose your own discussion ideas.
Remember that this is a community-shaped event, so if you are interested in a different kind of topic, if you have a particular educational issue that you need to work through, or if you have a pilot project that you want to discuss, please add it to the list of discussion topics. This is a rare opportunity to discuss your ideas with a group of very smart people from across the university, so make the most of it.
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