BuzzLion for Week of December 7

Posted on December 12, 2008 
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Here we are, at the end of the last week of classes, and ready to enter Finals Week. BuzzLion has no finals, just the biggest test of them all this time of year – dealing with the Holiday craziness. To quote the great humorist Jean Shepard from his classic “A Christmas Story” – the Christmas noose is starting to tighten.

A community, like busy mall at the Holidays, often has lots of people, but it is really more than that. Cole Camplese, ETS director, talks about what he believes defines a community via video, and offers an opportunity for you to record a video response.

Cole also has a very interesting blog post about what we do at ETS and what it all means.

Elizabeth Pyatt, ETS instructional designer, last week discussed problems implementing MathML on Explorer 7. She has a followup to this, and it seems she got some help from MathML themselves. Also, she makes an interesting comment about the ongoing Browser Wars and links to her previous blog post on MathML.

Jeff Swain, ETS instructional designer, has the latest in the ANGEL Shorts series posted on the ANGEL Community Hub. Designed to help ANGEL users get the most out of the course management system, this edition focuses on Five Things an Instructor Should Know About Using Media in a Quiz.

Mary Janzen, ETS writer/editor, reminds faculty and staff on the ANGEL Community Hub that ANGEL message boards must be converted to discussion forums before January 21, 2009.

Yvonne Clark, ETS instructional designer, announced on the Penn State Learning Design Community Hub that new documentation for the Adobe Presenter meeting software is online.

A final note: for Teaching and Learning with Technology news, events, and discussion, go to the TLT site and see the right side tabs.

That’s it for this week – thanks for reading!

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