BuzzLion for the Week of June 30

Posted on July 3, 2008 
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Short week for BuzzLion and ETS with the Fourth of July holiday on Friday, but there was still a lot going on in educational technology at Penn State.

Cole Camplese, ETS director, has found that the Macbook Air keeps his head in the clouds. But Web 2.0 technology keeps him grounded when he needs to work on documents, review Web links, write his thoughts, and read email.

Work on a team or have a group of students work on a project, and note the dynamics involved (i.e., the grandstanders, the loafers, the hard workers, etc.)? Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, links to an article on social learning in online student teams, and offers her own thoughts on how to manage teams.

Elizabeth also invites everyone to help design “tag stickers” for the Learning Design Summer Camp August 12-13. Learn more about this project and just what a “tag sticker” is by going to her post in the Learning Design Community Hub.

Illustrations can be used to help convey concepts, and Dave Stong, ETS graphic artist, shows us some cartoons that he created as part of a Flash piece on the creation/evolution of the universe for a BiSci course.

Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, is an active proponent of educational gaming. His latest post to the Educational Gaming Commons offers a strong case for educational gaming as more than just a fad or frivolous activity.

A quick note: Blogs at Penn State (http://blogs.psu.edu) will not be available from July 3rd at 5:00pm until July 7th, 2008 at 7:00am due to the scheduled pass space migration. For more information about the PASS space migration, see http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-740.

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

TLT CoffeeRead: New Technology Helps Engineers Expand Their Reach and Their Right Brain Skills

Posted on July 3, 2008 
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New Technology Helps Engineers Expand Their Reach and Their Right Brain Skills

This fits into not only podcasting but the Daniel Pink idea of developing the right side of the brain in “left-brained” people.

TLT CoffeeRead: E-Vote: Generation Y Engages Politically With Web 2.0

Posted on July 2, 2008 
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E-Vote: Generation Y Engages Politically With Web 2.0

“MeriTalk today announced the “Generation Y’s Bill of Rights” report which provides insight on how Generation Y gets information and makes recommendations for reaching and engaging this critical constituency. The report not only underscores the substantial differences in how Ys and baby boomers learn about and participate in government and politics, but also shows that Ys in various geographies have different information channel preferences.”

TLT CoffeeRead: Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments

Posted on July 1, 2008 
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Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments

Interesting report from the Tetherless World Research Constellation, which seems like a relevant event to our work in educational technology.

TLT CoffeeRead: Web doesn’t make you dumb

Posted on June 30, 2008 
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Web doesn’t make you dumb

“As industry and society become more Web-enabled, there is growing backlash among those who feel the medium is negatively impacting our collective intelligence. A recent cover story in Atlantic magazine asks if “Google is making us stupid,” while the book The Dumbest Generation warns readers not to trust anybody under 30 because of some sort of downloaded dopiness. With all due respect, these arguments are idiotic.”

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