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ETS Talk 52: Yes We Can

Cole, Allan, and Brad sit down in Orlando, FL after sessions at the 2009 Annual ELI Meeting. We discuss our thoughts on the event and how we plan to keep pushing towards a Yes we Can approach to education technology. Our trip was outstanding and the energy in this week’s ETS Talk shows it.

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TLT CoffeeRead: Wii music coming to a classroom near you

Wii music coming to a classroom near you

The article says that Wii music has great potential for music education. Are there any other potential pedagogical uses.

TLT CoffeeRead: It’s Geek to You, but Not to Them: Meet the Early Adopters

It’s Geek to You, but Not to Them: Meet the Early Adopters

An interesting article about early adopters, including products such as Boxee.

TLT CoffeeRead: A new networking site for students and recent grads

A new networking site for students and recent grads

“Move over, Facebook. There’s a new networking site in town. But it’s not a place to post your birthday party photos or keep your friends updated on your every move. In fact, the only thing that the Intrepid Innovations Networking Club and Facebook have in common is the “social network” tag.”

BuzzLion for the Week of Jan. 4

The BuzzLion is back, and both a Happy New Year and Happy New Semester to you all. One quick note: BuzzLion is so well-loved, it is expanding its focus from Educational Technology Services (ETS) to encompass Teaching and Learning with Technologies (TLT). So, in the coming weeks we will include other units within TLT outside of ETS, including Classroom and Lab Computing, WebLion, and ITS Training. The BuzzLion will also be part of the new TLT Newsletter. Watch this space for more on that later this month.

We start things with Cole Camplese, ETS director, who looks back at a year in the cloud. Cole is not being metaphysical or talking about how many frequent flyer miles he has logged, but cloud computing. More specifically, netbooks and how they might influence education. Find out what a netbook is and how you use it by going to his blog.

Mike Halm, who leads the WebLion group, recently posted on the WebLion blog about the presentation himself and Glenn Johnson, project manager of Penn State’s e-Portfolio Initiative, gave at this year’s EDUCAUSE mid-Atlantic conference. They discussed how WebLion helps the Penn State community develop e-portfolios, and you can read about the presentation here. Please note, they are looking for additional departments to work with them on this project.

Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, has posted an actual educational game that you can check out on the Educational Gaming Commons. He not only posts the game, but offers a hand if you want to incorporate it into your class but are not sure how.

Elizabeth Pyatt is not only an ETS instructional designer but a Unicode guru. Her latest Unicode post on her blog is on how to encode right to left scripts such as Arabic or Hebrew.

Eric Steele, programmer with WebLion, has announced the worm has turned at WebLion! Well, at least the Gloworm. Read about a very cool tool for Web content management here.

Brad Kozlek, senior programmer with ETS, shares with us a great article and video on collaborative editing and social voting.

That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading!

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