Hot Team: VoiceThread
A summer 2009 hot team investigated VoiceThread, a Web-based application that allows users to create a shared presentation as a media album that visitors can asynchronously comment on by text, voice, or video. The presentation can include any form of digital media. VoiceThread allows an entire group conversation to be collected from anywhere in the world and then shared for playback in one place....
Read MoreHot Team: Grassroots Video
Most of the content in YouTube is grassroots video: short videos posted by ordinary people who are recording what is going on around them. Most of these videos don’t have special lighting, sound, scripts, costumes, or props. In a 2008 survey of Penn State students, we found that 85 percent of them were watching videos on YouTube or a similar service and 17 percent were uploading videos...
Read MoreHot Team: Social Ratings
Allan Gyorke recently lead a Hot Team to explore the concept of Social Ratings for content. He and his team looked at a couple of approaches and worked to expose some interesting use cases. Social rating systems are open systems that allow users to collectively evaluate the quality of nearly anything (e.g. books, blog posts, broadway shows, movies, news stories, hotels, etc…). In its...
Read MoreHot Team: Zotero
Recently ETS’ Elizabeth Pyatt was the lead for a Hot Team that looked at Zotero. Zotero is a Firefox plug-in which allows users to capture and record bibliographic information about Web pages, images, and online journal articles, and export them as both a formatted bibliography or a text file suitable for EndNote import. The white paper is now available for download as a PDF. Image credit,...
Read MoreHot Team: Location Aware Technologies
In our first collaborative Hot Team we worked in cooperation with staff from Purdue University looking at Location Aware technologies. Chris Millet guided this team through exploring how things like GPS and Google Maps can be used to create teaching and learning opportunities. We have used data mash-ups for several projects, but the PSU Study Abroad GeoBlog is a great example of how location...
Read MoreHot Team: The Facebook Platform
A few months ago, Some of us here at ETS and faculty from the University Libraries were discussing Web 2.0 tools in the contexts of the Libraries. The meeting was really just to get an idea of the types of things they are thinking about and we started discussing the Facebook and the new FB Platform opportunities. The librarians showed us what some other higher education libraries were doing in...
Read More
ETS Communities
- Art 10: Open Course Content, Mobile Platform December 28, 2012
- ETS Talk 64: Massive Open Online Courses September 29, 2011
- ETS Talk 63: Flipping the Classroom September 16, 2011
- ETS Talk 62: All about Gamification July 8, 2011
- Mobile Media Kit for Campus Instructional Designers June 1, 2011
Entries RSS
You Said