Penn State Learning Design Community Hub

I just stumbled upon an interesting journal for reading and perhaps submitting to...

Journal of Interactive Online Learning - http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/

Now that there is a central hub for Accessbility and Web Standards, it was decided to move the Accessbility Forum hosted at to this site to the Web Standards/Accessbility Hub there.

So...now the Forum is a "Blog" at http://webstandards.psu.edu/. Entries are posted to the front page just as in the Learning Design Hub.

Anyone from Penn State can post to the blog once they log in. Hope to see you there.

First up - If you didn't see the post about Helen Keller day at Second Life on the Educational Gaming Commons, Elizabeth reposted it at the new Hub.

From Chris Millet of the Digital Commons

Carolyn Dudas from Behrend has a nice set of instructions for starting a Listserv (could be for a class, or to support a service or project) and how to obtain an e-mail alias for it (e.g. blogs@psu.edu is really an alias for a Listserv address).

http://behrend.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/ListservAliasProcedure.pdf

If you have a tutorial you would like to share, please feel free to post information about them here!

I found this article about teaching with Twitter that I thought others might be interested in.

http://www.techlearning.com/article/20896

FYI - The Adobe Presenter tutorials are now hosted on http://digitalcommons.psu.edu.

To locate them, go to http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/tutorials/, select Adobe Presenter from the "Software" drop-down menu and press the "Submit" button. There are currently 10 tutorials available.

FYI 2 - Only the tutorials for the Presenter have moved (i.e. for the PowerPoint plugin). The documentation for Adobe Connect in general is still housed at http://meeting.psu.edu.

https://breeze.psu.edu/p89969111/

We had a GREAT discussion on pedagogical issues surrounding assessment, ANGEL, etc.

Enjoy!

YouTube does support caption files (specifically the SubViewer/.sub and SubRip/.srt). You can find information about searching for captioned videos and reading captions at

http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about

More information about the specific caption format is at

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077

P.S. Pat just confirmed that Parity can create the correct caption format for YouTube.

We'll meet in 202K Rider, Friday, June 5, 10-11 AM. You may also join in via Adobe Connect at https://breeze.psu.edu/allids/ .

So far we have Jeff Swain to discuss ANGEL 7.3 features. As always, I'd like to see us steer this through pedagogical issues, not so much what buttons to press to make the new feature work.

Does anyone else have something to share? Let me know.