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Learning Design Summer Camp Registration

Wow! Who would have thought that a full month out from the event, we’ve filled our first set of alloted seats for the First Annual Learning Design Summer Camp? We’re thrilled, but the work is just getting started! Bounce over to the wiki and contribute thinking and help us round out the program. The wiki is in flux and that is a good thing — just don’t be surprised if things continue to change.

Follow ETS on Twitter

The Twitter LogoIf you are a user of the Twitter service, you can follow ETS by visiting our Twitter page and selecting “follow.” So why would you follow ETS on Twitter? Well, every time something gets updated here at the ETS Blog, Twitter announces it with a link — and if that isn’t enough we typically share Tweets about things getting set to happen like if there will be an ETS Talk Podcast produced on a given day, if we’re going to be somewhere doing something, or any number of other quick hitting announcements. Follow ETS by visiting our Twitter page.

Learning Design Summer Camp!

ETS is planning, with a healthy dose of community involvement, the first annual Learning Design Summer Camp to be held at University Park on August 12 and 13, 2008. Please know that you are invited to participate in the planning and in the actual event. We are doing things a little differently with this event — you register yourself and help build the program by visiting the ETS Wiki space. Login with your PSU credentials and please help us make this a great and open event … find the wiki at http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Learning_Design_Summer_Camp

PSU Teaching and Learning on YouTube

PSU TLT on YouTubeOne of the things we learned from the 2008 FACAC survey results is that Penn State faculty teach using YouTube. As a matter of fact over 30% of our faculty say YouTube plays a role in their teaching. We also know that quite a few of our students spend time at the social video site watching and contributing.

With that in mind we’ve decided to launch our own TLT YouTube video channel. At the site you can find videos from our events that we’ve captured the last few years as well as other interesting items. We’re still exploring all the ways we can use the YouTube channel and would be thrilled to hear your thoughts. For now, head over to the new TLT YouTube channel and take a look!

New ETS Look and Feel

I just updated the look and feel of the ETS Site! I spent a couple hours yesterday working on extending a stock theme to have some very ETS-like elements. Taking some inspiration from some work that Alan Levine did for the NMC’s Pachyderm project, I used nothing more than a stock WP install, a couple of plugins, some theme work, and some new thinking as it relates to content organization to get something going very quickly. A big thanks goes out to Jason Heffner for helping me get the theme installed and the permalink structure working the right way. Over the next few days I’ll start to round out some of the other pages here.

The two sections I’d like to do a little custom template work for are the ETS Staff page and the ETS R&D page. I’d like to drive some of the page elements from content being published blog style with categories. Keep watching as we’ll be updating it on a regular basis.

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