Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Keeping your bibliographical citations in order can be a difficult task. Fortunately, there are tools out there like Zotero, Endnote, and Refworks that can help you stay organized. Download this Symposium 2008 podcast to see which utility is best for you. As always, see the session notes to get a quick re-cap of the material.

How much would you pay for an online rubric system that helped you manage large (or small) courses, graded student scores, and generated feedback? Jonathan Mathews, Kyle Peck and Joy Jin Mao have good news for you: Rubric Cubed is free! Download our latest Symposium 2008 podcast, have a look at the session notes, and get a taste of what free can offer you.

Angel; over 70,000 students are taking advantage of the course management service right now. With 9,000+ course sections, Angel is used in over 70% of all Penn State courses. See the notes section and have a listen to this Symposium 2008 podcast to find out what Angel can do and where it is heading.

What do you think about having free texts for university level classes? Should we as educators move toward an open source or "open licensing" philosophy in our teachings? How difficult would it be to achieve? Download this Symposium 2008 podcast to find out. Also, have a look at an impressive notes section for this session.

Need a tool to help your students cite and manage references and sources? Look no further than this Symposium 2008 Podcast which reviews Zotero, Endnote, and Refworks. While you are at it, jump on over to the notes page to get a quick overview of the session.

Stephan Brady gives an interesting take on the integration of social networking into the lives and jobs of non-traditional students. Check out a quick set of notes on the session, take a listen and discover the meaning of "Are you hip to that Beat?"

Music, Biology, Astronomy. All taught online at The Pennsylvania State University. Listen as three pioneer professors shed light on the concepts behind teaching and learning online.

Elinor Madigan, an Assistant Professor, had a class of repeat calculus students and decided to try an experiment. She wanted to record the process of solving a problem because static notes don’t provide enough information. What followed makes for a very interesting podcast from the 2008 Symposium. Have a listen, and take a look at the session notes.

In this Symposium 2008 Podcast, Carla Zembal-Saul and Scott McDonald discuss the use and application of Studiocode. Studiocode is an application that is used to capture and analyze video. Originally used in analysis of athletics, the College of Education is now applying it to helping student teachers apply learning and teaching theory to teaching. Find the notes for this podcast here.

In this podcast, Ying Xie and Priya Sharma present the intriguing topic of blogging in the classroom. They share their experiences regarding student reaction to the project, the "approval rating" posted by students, and some of the positives and negatives from the project. The recording can be accessed through iTunesU or directly through the file attached to this post.