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Faculty members are invited to share innovative uses of technology to enhance teaching, learning, and research at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. This free event will be held Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. This year's theme is "Digital Scholarship and the Culture of Teaching and Learning."
The keynote speaker is Dr. Michael Wesch (http://ksuanth.weebly.com/wesch.html), assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.

Members of the faculty who are using technology to enrich teaching, learning, or research are encouraged to submit a presentation proposal using the online form at http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/conference/proposals. Topics could include faculty and students collaborating on a project or an assignment showcasing any number of collaborative tools and new learning spaces involved with teaching and research. Some examples include the use of electronic portfolios and blogs, the incorporation of digital media, the use of games, virtual worlds, and simulations, and any best practices that foster scholarship in the digital age. Sessions can be in a variety of formats, including group presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations, demonstrations, small-group discussions, and other activities. Each session should include some discussion of practical aspects such as the tools used, sources of support, best practices, and how the application of technology can be transferred to other disciplines. The deadline to submit proposals is October 30, 2009. For more details and to register, visit http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/. The Symposium is sponsored by Information Technology Services.

Faculty are invited to learn and share effective uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning at the free Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. The Symposium will take place on March 27, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in University Park. The theme of this year's symposium is "Digital Scholarship and the Culture of Teaching and Learning." Our keynote speaker is Dr. Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities. There is no registration fee and a continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information and updates, please visit the Symposium site.

This is a recording of a Town Hall session I delivered simultaneously to a live audience and via Adobe Connect. The was an open discussion forum where the new tools and features of ANGEL 7.3 were explored in depth. Topics covered included several interface changes, some updated features, as well as some new ones. Click here to play the Adobe Connect recording: ANGEL 7.3 Town Hall.

The following ANGELshorts and their compendium video tutorials are available to assist you with maximizing ANGEL 7.3 for teaching and learning.

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 1) Five Things Everyone Should Know about ANGEL 7.3
ANGEL 7.3 features enhancements to several existing tools and several new tools that will help course editors perform administrative tasks.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 2) Five Things You Should Know about the Course Mail Tool
The Course Mail tool allows students and instructors to correspond with each other without requiring the use of Internet e-mail accounts.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 3) Five Things You Should Know about the New HTML Editor
The HTML editor is available wherever there is a text area, including discussion forums, course mail, and quiz essay questions.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 4) Five Things You Should Know about Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are completely redesigned in ANGEL 7.3. There are dozens of new features designed to better facilitate teaching and learning.
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ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #1 Five Things You Should Know about Discussion Forums is now available.

From the article:
"Discussion forums are completely redesigned in ANGEL 7.3. There are dozens of new features designed to better facilitate teaching and learning as well as reduce the amount of time required for instructors to manage them. A discussion forum is added on the Lessons tab. It also appears in the Discussion Forums component on the Communicate tab by default."

Go to the ANGELshorts tab to read previous issues.

ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #3 Five Things You Should Know about the New HTML Editor is now available.

From the article:
"The HTML editor is available wherever there is a text area, including discussion forums, course mail, and quiz essay questions. The HTML editor is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that allows you to quickly create or edit formatted online content without knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)."

Go to the ANGELshorts tab to read previous issues.

ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #2 Five Things You Should Know about the Course Mail

From the article:
"The Course Mail tool allows students and instructors to correspond with each other without requiring the use of Internet e-mail accounts. It provides access to the new HTML editor, supports adding attachments and forwarding to Internet e-mail addresses, and allows the sender and recipients to monitor who has read a message."

Go to the ANGELshorts tab to read previous issues.