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Paths to our Mission: Path Four

Please take a little time to help us think critically about our organization and cite examples of where we are doing well and areas where improvement is needed. Please leave thoughts in the comment section below. I thank you in advance!

Enhancing curricula through the use of instructional design

New Video on Penn State and Second Life Available!

See https://streaming.psu.edu/media/?movieId=8240

Leslie, Shannon, and I worked together on this. Leslie wanted a video to show adult learners and practitioners the possibilities for SL at the 2009 Hendrick Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference. Shannon and I wanted a video to show anyone what’s happening in the space.

Kim Winck of ETS did a great job advising us and producing the final video. We now have a great video for all to watch and learn about Penn State and Second Life. Enjoy!

Schreyer Honors College Blogging Project

ETS is working with the Schreyer Honors College (SHC) to investigate the use of the Penn State blogging platform to support student portfolios and ongoing reflection. As part of this initiative, members of ETS will support SHC scholars as we jointly explore the impact of personal publishing on academic advising, personal reflection, and personal content management. Scholars will be asked to maintain a blog (powered by the Blogs@Penn State) to track reflections of their experiences. Categories will be used to help better organize reflections and to align them with SHC programmatic goals and outcomes. Additionally, SHC scholars’ faculty advisors will be asked to participate by periodically tracking scholar progress via their blogs.

As of the spring 2009 semester, there are nine SHC bloggers taking part in the pilot program. ETS representatives meet with them approximately once a month to discuss the project and form ideas to move forward. Christian Brady, Dean of the Schreyer Honors College, has included setting up Web space as part of FTCAP and creating blogs during the freshmen orientation training for incoming SHC students this August. While not mandating, Dean Brady will highly encourage all incoming SHC freshmen to set up their portfolios and maintain a blog.

To keep up with the pilot group and their blog postings, you can look at or subscribe to the PSUHonors tag.  Other categories (tags) that are being used in this project are: academic excellence, civic engagement, global perspective, honor, integrity, and leadership.

Paths to Our Mission: Path Three

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Participating in research opportunities to better educate faculty, staff, and students in the use of emerging technologies as they relate to teaching and learning.

Paths to Our Mission: Path Two

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Supporting technology innovation and adoption to support teaching and learning