BuzzLion for the week of August 25

Posted on August 31, 2007 
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As a new semester begins at Old State, this is what has ETS staff abuzz for the week of August 25….

Dave Stong discusses what a “keyframer” is (he is one) and offers an example of a keyframer’s work, a Flash animation of a talking head. a Flash animation of a talking head. .

“I’m not the type of guy to take any sort of comfort from having a label. I usually take pains to avoid running in a pack. In my efforts to find better ways to animate dialog and characters in Flash, though, I discovered that I have one: and it was a big relief.

I’m a keyframer.”

Mary Janzen gives us a calendar date to save — the ANGEL Town Hall September 11

“In case a “town hall” is new to you, it allows faculty, support staff and others who work with ANGEL a chance to view the new ANGEL 7.1 interface. It’s an open discussion facilitated by ANGEL support staff within ITS, where in-depth exploration of all the new tools and features takes place, with time available at the end for questions and answers.”

Jeff Swain offers Five Things Faculty and Staff Need to Know about Learning Object Repositories.

“A Learning Object Repository (LOR) is a unique content area within ANGEL that a course editor can use to share Lessons tab content items with fellow course editors.”

Gaming has educational potential, but what about violent behavior caused by video games? Chris Stubbs offer his thoughts, and asks, what about personal responsibility?

“So I was wonderfully surprised to come across the findings of researchers at Villanova, who have come to the stunningly obvious conclusion that no one ever talks about. The long and short of it is simple. Violent video games do cause “aggression”. But aggression does not mean violence, and the effect on a normal person’s behavior is minuscule. And, are you ready for this one? Inherently angry people show more angry responses than non angry people to violent stimuli.”

Wendy Mahan offers her likes and dislikes regarding the iPhone.

“Would I give up the iPhone at this point? Absolutely not. It will be interesting to see how I feel six months or a year from now, but currently, I am still in awe.” (Sounds like good news for Mr. Jobs)

Cole Camplese asks the eternal question “If a tree falls on Adobe Connect, would anyone hear it?”. Or something along those lines.

“I got thinking about just moving the ETS Briefings forward, but on my own just to see what would happen.

Would anyone show up if I just started doing these once a month from my office over Adobe Connect Pro?”

Pat Besong discusses one of his projects, a new touch-screen kiosk for the Penn State All Sports Museum

“I got the kiosk done just in time for the first football game, which was the goal. It looks really good and the Sports Museum folks are happy. So, if you get time, check it out. The museum is on the Jordan Center side of Beaver Stadium at ground level.”

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