BuzzLion for Week of October 5

Posted on October 10, 2008 
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With all the bad news this week on the economy, think of the BuzzLion as your one-stop shop for good news, at least about educational technology at Penn State.

Definitely some good news for the Blogs at Penn State pilot, as Cole Camplese, ETS director, points out in his blog. There has been a big jump in the amount of not just blogs, but posts on these blogs as well.

Still on the blog subject, Brad Koslek, senior programmer, recently posted about using tags in blogs as a way to add new features. Read more about it on his superbly-named blog, Edushizzle.

Allan Gyorke, ETS manager of educational technology, wants to talk about globalization. Wait, don’t leave! This isn’t more depressing economy stuff. Allan talks about globalization of learning, and it is quite interesting.

Dave Stong, ETS graphic designer, has his head in the clouds. Tag clouds, that is. He blogs this week about an interesting tag cloud tool and its possible uses for marketing.

Video games – better than life? Brett Bixler, ETS lead instructional designer, posted on the Educational Gaming Community Hub about a talk given by a gaming expert that looks at the future of games. You can watch the video here. He makes his points in some surprising ways – give it a watch.

Now for some news:

The International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning

Call for Proposals open until December 8, 2008.

We are pleased to announce the dates and location for the 2009 International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning. The symposium will be held June 17-19, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

In addition, the Call for Proposals is now open at the Symposium website, http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/.

Program Tracks include:
- Emerging Technologies for Administration, Infrastructure, and Support Services
- Immersive Learning and Virtual Environments
- Inventive Uses of Media and Tools
- Pedagogy and New Learning Environments
- The New Learning Communities

For more information about this symposium, please visit http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/.

And speaking of Symposiums:

Registration is now open for the 2009 Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology, along with call for proposals for presentations.

You can register here.

You can submit a proposal to present on the great stuff you are doing in educational technology at Penn State by going here.

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

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