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TLT CoffeeRead: A perfect 10 – Web sites you should visit as a college student

A perfect 10: Web sites you should visit as a college student

An example:

4) Ectolearning.com is a free site which allows students from around the world to have an active role in their learning experience. Students can create, collaborate and share with video, graphics, and text tools they already use. The classroom is set up like a virtual chat room with a whiteboard to type on, draw on, etc.

TLT CoffeeRead: Web 2.0 Expo: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Web 2.0 Expo: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Very good rundown of the best, okay, and not-so-good new Web 2.0 tools.

BuzzLion for Week of September 14

The fall 2008 semester is in full swing here at Penn State. The air is crisp, the Nittany Lions are 3-0, and things are rolling right along with ETS.

Rocking and rolling, in fact, and this was much in evidence at the 2008 Penn State Libraries Open House. ETS’s Digital Commons and the Educational Gaming Commons (EGC) had a booth at the event, meeting with students and faculty and educating them about educational gaming and multimedia. The rock and roll came in the form of the popular game, Rock Band (the Nittany Lion was rumored to have rocked Rock Band at the open house, but alas no photographic evidence). The EGC also got a mention in the Daily Collegian article on the event.

Speaking of Rock Band, you might think it is just a fun diversion with no educational possibilities, right? Well, if so, then you are in for a surprise. Bart Pursel, Penn State instructional designer who works with ETS, recently posted in the Educational Gaming Commons about Rock Band’s new potential in music education.

Enough rock and roll, let’s get artsy. Dave Stong, ETS graphic designer, extols the virtues of Penn State’s Palmer Museum and thinks the latest installation is worth a lunchtime walk there. Dave was also involved with the virtual Palmer Museum in Second Life.

ETS operates the ANGEL Community Hub. One of the benefits of the ANGEL Community Hub lies in its wealth of information, a sort of a constantly developing knowledge base. For example, Jeff Swain, ETS instructional designer, this week posted instructions on using section headings in a quiz. If you are one of the many who use ANGEL at Penn State, this site is one to bookmark (or, subscribe to its RSS feed).

Okay, so each week you take a look at this blog post, and you read about some of the stuff that ETS is up to in educational technology. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Want to get the wider view? BuzzLion recommends you take a look at the ETS Wiki. Many of the projects ETS is working on/has worked on/will work on can be found there. It’s worth a look.

That’s all for BuzzLion for this week – thanks for reading!

TLT CoffeeRead: Professors find ways to reach students through different means

Professors find ways to reach students through different means

From Kent State student newspaper…..

TLT CoffeeRead – Generation Y: When geek became chic

Generation Y: When geek became chic

“Working in the library at university, it wasn’t uncommon to look around and notice that, just like me, everyone was studying while listening to music on their iPods, with their mobiles in one hand, and mouse in the other, arranging the plan for the night out while writing the conclusion of an essay,” says Lauren Mills, a recent graduate from Nottingham Trent University.

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