BuzzLion for the Week of October 26

Posted on October 31, 2008 
Filed Under BuzzLion, TLT Coffee Read

This edition of BuzzLion will thankfully be clear of any tired Halloween-focused cliches that appear in so many articles, blogs, etc. this time of year. We promise.

For starters, Allan Gyorke, ETS manager, education technologies, is one of several ETS souls haunting this year’s EDUCAUSE 2008 Conference in Orlando. He discusses some of the scary top teaching and learning challenges that spook educational technology experts. That is just the first of his posts from EDUCAUSE; don’t be afraid to read his other posts, which are full of great information.

WHATEVER you do, don’t pick up your iPhone! Because Cole Camplese, ETS director, has found yet another KILLER APP for it – a very cool recording and synching device. Cole finds it quite useful in his day-to-day haunts.

Chris Stubbs, ETS senior programmer, is a serious gamer with scary skills who often looks beyond games into other aspects such as sociology, education (of course), and advertising. Take a look at his recent blog post for some truly hair-raising game advertising that includes a monster on the side of a real building. No, they didn’t hire the Cloverfield monster. See for yourself – if you dare.

Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, has a frightful time trying to get work done in Second Life’s Penn State space because of all the virtual human entities asking him questions. He notes that there is a sense of presence you bring into SL that just doesn’t exist in other mediums, and this builds some great relationships.

Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, conjured up a whitepaper on e-learning by Adobe, and shares it on the Learning Design Castle of Terror. Er, Learning Design Community Hub. Anyway, it’s a great read, and you can find it here.

Time for some news:

If you want to learn how to use the meeting software Adobe Connect, here is a real treat with no tricks. As posted on the Adobe Connect Community Hub:

Below are the dates and times for our November Adobe Connect Demonstration sessions. We’ve extended one of the sessions to 1.5 hours to include a demonstration of the breakout rooms which is new to Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro (version 7). We will also demonstrate the primary features of the meeting room and answer questions that you might have. No registration or RSVP necessary.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Here is the link to the meeting room: https://breeze.psu.edu/r54559680/. Please come when you like, learn about the new features, different ways to use Adobe Connect, ask questions, stay for a few minutes or for the time; feel free to pass this on to friends and colleagues. Members of the Penn State community can arrange for an on-site demonstration by contacting your ITS Consultant (https://myit.vmhost.psu.edu/node/72).

If you plan to join our demonstration session through Adobe Connect, please read through the Getting Started information at http://meeting.psu.edu/quickstart and test your connection in advance with our generic test meeting room at https://breeze.psu.edu/testmeetingroom/.

If you have any questions or problems entering the test meeting room, help is available by emailing breeze@psu.edu.

Okay, that is all for this week’s BuzzLion. Thank God there were no lame Halloween cliches. That would have been scary bad.

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