BuzzLion for the Week of July 20

Posted on July 25, 2008 
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BuzzLion is going to begin by talking about summer camp. No, not the kind of summer camp with mosquitoes, swimming in a lake, and having your canoe put up in a tree, but the Learning Design Summer Camp, coming up August 12-13. It’s an event that is re-examining the concept of learning design. You can learn more by visiting the Learning Design Summer Camp wiki. Interestingly enough, the event has used this wiki PLAN the event via volunteers in the Penn State community. Definitely a different way of doing things.

Cole Camplese, ETS director, explains further how different the Learning Design Summer Camp really is when compared to other events. He discusses a concept called “Open Event Planning” in his most recent blog post.

Chris Stubbs, ETS Collaborative Developer, has uncovered a very interesting tool called Inform that is sort of like a game that helps people learn how to do creative writing. How on earth does it do that? Stubbs gives you the low-down in his blog, The Voices in My Head.

Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, talks about Web site accessibility, an important issue for an institute like Penn State. She has found an interesting conundrum – as students who are novice Web designers create Web portfolios, how do we help them make them more accessible?

Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, is a major proponent of educational gaming, and is also a big proponent of introducing educational games to the library. Sound crazy to have Wiis in such a quiet place? Think again – this isn’t your father’s library these days.

Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, has a reminder – Adobe Connect, the remote meeting software, is going to be upgraded to Version 7 on July 30. Yvonne posted a quick reminder recently about documentation on the Connect Community Hub: http://meeting.psu.edu/node/433

BuzzLion will end with a quick suggestion – the links to these blog posts are often not the only things these ETS staffers have written for the week. BuzzLion encourages you to explore their blogs, look at archives including anything written this week, and do a few searches. There is tons of great content and information to be found on our blogs and community hubs.

That’s all for this week – have a great weekend and see you next Friday.

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