Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

I'm pleased to announce that the improved version of Lessig's keynote address is now available.

Lawrence Lessig Keynote

In this interview, Scott McDonald from the College of Education, talks about his reactions to the Symposium and the back-channel communication. He's using video in his teaching and was one of the people we profiled in the faculty stories.

I'm pleased to announce that the first version of Lawrence Lessig's keynote presentation from the TLT Symposium is now available. Eventually, we will also have a higher quality version of this presentation that shows his slides with a voice-over.

In this presentation, he discusses the tension between the way copyright law is interpreted for digital media and the way young people are trying to use existing media to create new forms of expression. [No description will do it justice. You really have to listen to the way he presents his argument. He's brilliant.]

Lawrence Lessig Keynote

With the MOST EXCELLENT help of Dave Stong and Audrey Romano, I created a Symposium Merit badge. Download yours here!

EDIT: Dave made it even better! Here's the new one!

Laura Guertin at Penn State Brandywine uses podcasting and Google Earth in her earth and geoscience courses to help students grasp science principles. She has discovered that when students use these technologies, the quality of their science improves, they care more deeply about the subject matter, and they are eager to share their learning with a wider audience.

In 2005, Guertin began to record her classroom lectures in MP3 format. She makes them available to students via iTunes U (https://itunes.psu.edu/), allowing them to engage in course content outside class.

During the Symposium, attendees can tag themselves with some stickers that we have on hand. I hope this will help to strike up conversations between people who share a common interest, but who don't know each other yet.