BuzzLion for April 6, 2008

Posted on April 11, 2008 
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This week, the BuzzLion takes a look at ETS Community Hub. What’s an ETS Community Hub? It’s a community designed to foster in-depth discussion of ETS services. They include Adobe Connect, ANGEL, Blogs, Design Library, Digital Commons, Educational Gaming, iPhone, Learning Design, Podcasts, SCOLA, Teaching with Technology Certificate, and TLT Symposium. You can visit these hubs via the “Hub of Community Hubs”.

One Hub that always seems to be busy is the Educational Gaming Commons. In just this week, there posts on the Penn State Spanish language course’s virtual hacienda, gaming in IST, a call for papers for the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, a video of the virtual THON on Second Life, a report on the Educational Possibilities in Second Life Inworld Conference, and that’s just some of them!

If you want to learn more about educational gaming and Second Life, BuzzLion recommends going to that Hub. Of course, if you want to learn more about the other projects/services, you can go to those hubs as well via the Hub of Community Hubs.

Another example of ETS’s Community Hubs is the Penn State Learning Design Community Hub. Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, posted to the Hub about accessibility issues, while Brett Bixler, lead instructional designer, posted about a development plan for pedagogical needs assessment.

Yet another example is one that many Penn State faculty can find a lot of use for - the ANGEL Community Hub. The ANGEL Hub is the first of the community Hubs, the brainchild of ETS’s Jeff Swain. There are plenty of ANGEL help to be found, including a regular series of specific tips called ANGEL Shorts. ETS’s senior writer/editor Mary Janzen has a post letting people know what to do when course and group mail from prior to May 14, 2004, is deleted.

Please keep in mind, these are just samples of what you can find. BuzzLion only mentioned a few examples. It is well worth your while to go to the “Hub of Hubs” and visit the Hub that interests you, and then subscribing the RSS feed.

That’s it for this week’s BuzzLion. Again, if you have anything you would like mentioned, be sure to email BuzzLion at jco11@psu.edu.

Thanks for reading.

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