BuzzLion for the week of September 28

Posted on October 3, 2008 
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BuzzLion this week starts off by throwing in a little plug for the boss.

Cole Camplese, director of ETS, recently had a column printed in the prestigious Christian Science Monitor on the rise of participatory social media and it’s affects on society overall. He wrote about his column in his blog, a good move because it started an interesting conversation in the comments section from people beyond Penn State.

Allan Gyorke, manager of educational technologies at ETS, talks about his lifelong learning class he is taking here at Penn State. And then reflects on the myriad of learning opportunities that are currently part of his life.

Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, has found that too many online archival repositories are, well, not so usable. She takes a look at some, and mitigates her post with a look at some that work.

Jeff Swain, ETS instructional designer, and Mary Janzen, ETS writer/editor, have produced another ANGEL Shorts. This edition is titled “What an Instructor Should Know about Using a Text Editor to Create a Quiz Question Bank” and can be found on the ANGEL Community Hub.

Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, posted to the Adobe Connect Community Hub about an online Adobe Connect Presenter training session that was held last week. If you missed it, no worries, you can view the training here.

A Digital Commons Tailgate on November 7-8 when the football team isn’t even at home? And at the Schuylkill Campus, not here in University Park? Come again? No, you are thinking of the wrong kind of tailgate. This Tailgate is an event that is similar to the Learning Design Summer Camp and is a conference focusing on digital media in education. To learn more, please click here.

Brett Bixler, lead instructional designer with ETS, has posted in the Educational Gaming Community Hub the following announcement:

Dr. Karl Kapp will be joining us from Bloomsburg University to talk about 3D Virtual Worlds and how they do or do not fit into the landscape of online courses. He will be focusing on the pedagogical aspects of these tools and not necessarily the tools themselves, as we are all familiar with and have explored many of these 3D Worlds.

Dr. Kapp’s presentation will be from 10:30 to noon on October 21st at the Hub in Heritage Hall, and I have attached a copy of Dr. Kapp’s bio. Below is an abstract of his presentation.

If you are able to attend please RSVP so we have an idea of how many folks we may have in attendance. Also, if you know of other Instructional Designers that I may have forgot to include on this email please pass along the information. I tried to account for everyone, but I’m sure I missed some folks, especially some at the campuses.

We will try to arrange to have the session recorded and made available for those that cannot attend in person.

Regards.
Rick Shearer, Penn State World Campus

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That is all for this week’s BuzzLion. Thanks for reading and see you next week!

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