Mobile Media Kit for Campus Instructional Designers

I used to work at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, which had about 1100 students. Working there was great because I really got to know the faculty and students well. The downside was that I didn’t really have a group of peers to turn to and I didn’t have the kind of technology resources that were available at University Park. Here is an example of how that looks today and what...

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The ETS Pitch Session

At the last ETS Staff meeting, we discussed the “Pitch Session”. It’s a time for ETS staff to get together and propose plans for new ideas or different ways of doing things. We had a practice run with Chris Stubbs to try out the format. He proposed the development of an Econ 2 game where students would be the resource managers for a large university. The game would be a bit...

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ETS and Engineering’s eLearning Initiative

The College of Engineering’s eLearning Initiative is a shared project with ETS and the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education. The initiative aims to expose undergraduate students within the College of Engineering to issues of globalization, ethics, and societal contexts in engineering practice. In addition the initiative will require that students demonstrate an...

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Turnitin

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection and prevention system owned by Turnitin.com, which has licensed the system to Penn State for use in the University community. Faculty can submit students’ papers to the system to perform originality checks. Turnitin can also be used as a teaching tool to raise awareness of paraphrasing and quoting skills among students to avoid plagiarism. TLT staff...

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Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

The annual Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology brings together faculty and teaching support staff to share innovative ideas and best practices for using technology to enhance courses. The next symposium is scheduled for March 29, 2008. As a complement to the event, the Web site at http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/ provides a calendar of events, podcasts, and a blog to which...

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Podcasts at Penn State

The Podcasts at Penn State program offers a variety of services designed to offer faculty an easy way to produce educational podcasts and distribute them to their students. These services include hands-on training, information on locating equipment to borrow or purchase for producing podcasts, recommendations of the best practices for creating pedagogical podcasts, free software downloads...

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