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LDSC08: Enabling Social Learning

Cole Camplese — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:00:13 +0000

Cole Camplese and Scott McDonald opened the 2008 Learning Design Summer Camp with a discussion of how they used social media to help bring their graduate seminar to life. In this session they spent time talking about the design of C&I 597C: Disruptive Technologies for Teaching and Learning and shared some insights into the things that surprised them the most. If you have any comments or thoughts about the presentation, please feel free to share them.

Follow ETS on Twitter

Cole Camplese — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:24:01 +0000

If 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.

Follow the Symposium on Twitter

Cole Camplese — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:37:23 +0000

As we start the countdown to the TLT Symposium, I thought I’d point out that Allan and the Symposium team will be upping the Twitter chatter once again. The TLT Symposium has had its own Twitter channel for quite some time now … we used it last year and even had a big screen display in the break area to show off the tweets. Get started early this year and visit the Symposium’s Twitter page and follow along. I’m sure it will follow you back!

Skitch and Twitter

Cole Camplese — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:00:46 +0000

ETS staff were on the Twitter train quite some time ago … we had all sorts of discussion about its merits, potential pitfalls, and opportunities in the teaching and learning space. Strangely enough our Twitter use has continued and matured over the last year or so. One thing I know it gets used for are quite questions between our staff and those in the education technology space across PSU and beyond. One thing we can now do is combine Twitter with the very cool image capture/editing application, Skitch.

Skitch is like a camera for the Internet — at least that is what the Skitch people tell us. Skitch is a very handy and quick image capture and sharing application that now has built in support for sending Tweets when items are posted. I’ve been using it for a couple of days from my mobile phone … snapping quick pictures and sending them off to the web for publication — at the same time my Twitter community is handy a TinyURL to go see the picture. Nice little piece of functionality and could be very useful for sharing screenshots of all sorts of things. Might be worth a look.

InstaPoll … Help Us Help You

Cole Camplese — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:30:38 +0000

A few weeks ago in an ETS Talk podcast we came up an idea to run a weekly “InstaPoll” via Twitter to try and grab some ideas and feedback for the show. We’ve run a few, but the notion of using an InstaPoll effectively has been hard to nail down — how to do them, collect the data, and use the results. Just a tough one to figure out.

I was on Twitter this morning and saw that Jamie Oberdick issued an InstaPoll looking for some feedback on what PSU could be providing more of. I think it is a great idea to ask the community, but like the InstaPolls for ETS Talk, I hate to see the results get lost. I thought I’d repeat Jamie’s questions here and ask that if you have ideas to leave them as comments. All are welcome! Jamie’s InstaPoll:

What would you like to see PSU offer technology-wise that we currently do not? Product, service, training, programs, etc.

What is Good with Twitter

Cole Camplese — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:30:47 +0000

Over the last several days Twitter has crept into our lives in huge way. Is it good that a critical mass are now watching each other? I have my thoughts and I will post them over at my personal blog, but I ask you as a PSU person, what do you think? There have been new connections made via this silly little piece of technology, but when do too many people spoil the party? Is this even a worthwhile question? Just something to throw out to the community … please don’t make us look dumb by not commenting — if you do, we’ll just delete the post and move on Let us know.

Is Twitter Big Brother

Cole Camplese — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:54:41 +0000

Since we are jumping on Twitter, I am wondering if it is Big Brother? Just from your perspective. Seeing that it is voluntary, can it be looked at as a Big Brother style application? Should it be? I am of the mind that it can do more good than evil, but am curious what my Twitter friends think. BTW, follow ETS Talk on Twitter.