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Selber to Join ETS as Fellow

Cole Camplese — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:45:33 +0000

ETS is thrilled to announce that Dr. Stuart Selber, Associate Professor of English and Sciences, Technology, and Sociaety, will join ETS as a Faculty Fellow this Summer. During his time as a Fellow, he will be exploring the topic of that “Changing Nature in Online Instruction Sets” in collaboration with TLT/ETS staff. You can learn more about his project by visiting the emerging description at the ETS wiki. Stuart has been working with ETS for the past year in a redesign of English 202C. We are all thrilled to have him spending time with us this Summer and we know it will lead to some exciting outcomes and discoveries.

My argument is that Web 2.0 environments have begun to recast the instruction set in concrete and meaningful ways. The relevance of the instruction set has been amplified and widened by an online participatory culture that encourages involvement, collaboration, and information exchange. More than simply a good example, the instruction set has become something of a metonym for the complex world of Web 2.0.

Faculty Fellows engage with ETS to integrate technology within emerging educational projects that can be shared and implemented widely throughout Penn State. To be considered for a Fellowship please visit our Faculty Fellowship page.

Long to Join ETS as Faculty Fellow

Cole Camplese — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:13 +0000

ETS is thrilled to announce that Dr. Christopher Long, Associate Professor of Philosophy, will join ETS as a Faculty Fellow this Summer. During his time as a Fellow, he will be exploring the topic of “Digital Dialogue” in collaboration with TLT/ETS staff. You can learn more about his project by visiting the emerging description at the ETS wiki. Chris maintains several blogs across the Penn State web including his excellent personal space, The Long Road. We are all thrilled to have him spending time with us this Summer and we know it will lead to some exciting outcomes and discoveries.

Cahoy to Join ETS as Faculty Fellow

Cole Camplese — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:16:38 +0000

ETS is thrilled to announce that this Summer Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Assistant Head of Library Learning Services in the Penn State University Libraries, will join ETS as a Faculty Fellow. During her time as a Fellow, she will be exploring the topic of digital literacy acquisition in-depth and developing instructional solutions in collaboration with TLT/ETS staff expert in online content creation, including Digital Commons staff. You can learn more about her and her Fellowship by visiting her Fellowship page. We are all thrilled to have her spending time with us this Summer and we know it will lead to some very interesting outcomes.

Dr. Carla Zembal-Saul

Cole Camplese — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:29:22 +0000

During the Summer of 2008, Dr. Carla Zembal-Saul Associate Professor of Education in Science Education, was a resident Faculty Fellow. The focus of her Fellowship centers on the exploration of the PSU blogging platform as a vehicle for student e-portfolios. In particular, we are considering the ways in which we might take full advantage of some of the fundamental aspects of blogging and the richness of the blogging culture to engage Penn State students in professional discourse communities around frameworks and problems of practice associated with their chosen professions. From the perspective of blogs as portfolio, students participation with blogging can both inform their development and provide a means of monitoring their own development along program learning outcomes and personal goals over time.

In cases where this information might be used by programs for accreditation, reporting, and/or self-assessment purposes, we are working to create a mechanism for “capturing” evidence from students’ professional learning blogs at specified points in time across their programs. Think of these as “snapshots” of development. The larger umbrella under which this work falls is that of using digital media to serve as evidence of learning. This project will build on existing research and practice on e-portfolios as a platform for supporting student learning and development.

You can learn more about this project by visiting the project’s page on the ETS Wiki.