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TLT CoffeeRead: Drexel Prepares To Open ‘Cutting Edge’ Studies Center In Sacramento

Drexel Prepares To Open ‘Cutting Edge’ Studies Center In Sacramento

Very nice facility! Anything here that Penn State also does?

TLT CoffeeRead: Need help with class? YouTube videos await

Need help with class? YouTube videos await

Calculus tutorial has been watched almost 50,000 times in the past year

BuzzLion for Week of December 7

Here we are, at the end of the last week of classes, and ready to enter Finals Week. BuzzLion has no finals, just the biggest test of them all this time of year – dealing with the Holiday craziness. To quote the great humorist Jean Shepard from his classic “A Christmas Story” – the Christmas noose is starting to tighten.

A community, like busy mall at the Holidays, often has lots of people, but it is really more than that. Cole Camplese, ETS director, talks about what he believes defines a community via video, and offers an opportunity for you to record a video response.

Cole also has a very interesting blog post about what we do at ETS and what it all means.

Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, last week discussed problems implementing MathML on Explorer 7. She has a followup to this, and it seems she got some help from MathML themselves. Also, she makes an interesting comment about the ongoing Browser Wars and links to her previous blog post on MathML.

Jeff Swain, ETS instructional designer, has the latest in the ANGEL Shorts series posted on the ANGEL Community Hub. Designed to help ANGEL users get the most out of the course management system, this edition focuses on Five Things an Instructor Should Know About Using Media in a Quiz.

Mary Janzen, ETS writer/editor, reminds faculty and staff on the ANGEL Community Hub that ANGEL message boards must be converted to discussion forums before January 21, 2009.

Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, announced on the Penn State Learning Design Community Hub that new documentation for the Adobe Presenter meeting software is online.

A final note: for Teaching and Learning with Technology news, events, and discussion, go to the TLT site and see the right side tabs.

That’s it for this week – thanks for reading!

TLT CoffeeRead: Critical Cognitive Skills In Older Adults Improved By Strategic Video Game

Critical Cognitive Skills In Older Adults Improved By Strategic Video Game

Are there any positive effects such as this on younger adults, i.e., student-age adults?

TLT CoffeeRead: Is technology rewiring our brains?

Is technology rewiring our brains?

“What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they’re coming from certain brain scientists.

Violent video games have gotten a lot of public attention, but some current concerns go well beyond gaming. Some scientists think the wired world might be changing the way we read, learn, and interact with each other.”

Reason for concern here?

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