Art 10: Open Course Content, Mobile Platform

Posted by on Dec 28, 2012 in ETS, Faculty, Feature | Comments Off

Art 10: Open Course Content, Mobile Platform

Since this summer, ETS has been working with the College of Arts and Architecture and faculty member Anna Divinsky to produce an open version of the course materials for Art 10: Introduction to Visual Studies. This course introduces students to several styles of art and important works that exemplify those styles. In addition, students are taught the basics of creating art of their own. What...

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The ETS Pitch Session

Posted by on May 23, 2011 in Blog, ETS, ETS Initiatives, Innovation, Presentations | Comments Off

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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New Video on Penn State and Second Life Available!

Posted by on May 14, 2009 in Blog, EGC, ETS, video | Comments Off

See https://streaming.psu.edu/media/?movieId=8240 Leslie, Shannon, and I worked together on this. Leslie wanted a video to show adult learners and practitioners the possibilities for SL at the 2009 Hendrick Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference. Shannon and I wanted a video to show anyone what’s happening in the space. Kim Winck of ETS did a great job advising us and producing the...

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ETS Site via Wordle

Posted by on Jul 25, 2008 in Blog, ETS, Mashups, Tools | Comments Off

Gary Chinn took a minute to run this site through the really cool content visualization tool Wordle. The resulting tag cloud below is what he got. I like that the words students, technologies, educational, and learning are similar in size. Thanks to Gary!

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ETS Briefing 12.6.2006

Posted by on Dec 8, 2006 in Blog, ETS | Comments Off

At our last all ETS Staff Meeting I presented a strategic planning briefing that attempted to outline the current and future state of ETS. I thought I would post a PDF of the slides that went along with the presentation. I thought we had a great conversation around some of the newer approaches we are taking here in ETS. I think the only really new stuff in it are the Engagement Initiative, how...

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