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Symposium 2008 Podcasts -- Using Collaboration Techniques, Projects & Social Software Apps in a First-Year Seminar

April 21, 2008 - 11:11pm — jmj5032
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First year seminar classes are inherently a difficult type of course to plan for. Some of our enterprising colleges at Penn State have decided to implement collaborative technologies in their seminar classes. Check out this Symposium 2008 podcast to hear about their experiences. As always, have a look at the session notes and enjoy!

"On The Street" Interview with Qi Dunsworth

April 2, 2008 - 3:44pm — Allan Gyorke
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In this interview, Qi Dunsworth from Erie reacts to the keynote presentation and gives her thoughts the way the use of technology is changing culture and her interest in technologies like wikis, tablet PCs, and clickers.

Using Collaboration Techniques, Projects & Social Software Apps in a First-Year Seminar

March 29, 2008 - 10:11am — Mary Janzen
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Ritzko and Maxwell:
Student teams interviewed key campus personnel by various means including audio, e-mail, polycom, face-to-face, and text chat. Students learned to use more formal, professional communication. They presented what they learned in a PowerPoint. She gave little PPT guidance, so they varied in effectiveness. May provide more guidance in the future. She gave one grade to each team; because it was obvious some team members didn't do much work, she will also rethink that grading policy. She would like to include more peer evaluations in the future.

Striedieck:
Used a wiki as a teaching/learning tool for the first time. She assumed students would be very familiar with wikis, but they were not. Used PBwiki (easy as making a PBJ sandwich.) Pairs of students served as wiki patrol for a particular week, not just description but interpretation and reflection.

Moo Stickers for People Tagging

February 29, 2008 - 10:53am — Allan Gyorke
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blogging
clickers
disruptive technologies
emerging technologies
gaming
mashups
Podcasting
portfolios
social networks
testing
Video
Video Conferencing
virtual worlds
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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.

ITS Event Links

April 24, 2007 - 7:59am — Allan Gyorke
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I had to get a list of links together for the ITS Event and I want to show people what a blog looks like, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. This list isn't in any way complete, but does serve as an example of each of these technologies in action:

Blog Examples:

Wiki Example:

List of RSS Aggregators

Web 2.0 Tools Used in Planning the Symposium

April 10, 2007 - 10:12pm — Allan Gyorke
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The theme of this year's Symposium is "Social Computing and the Culture of Teaching and Learning" and we actually used quite a few social computing tools to plan and execute this year's Symposium. It wasn't intentional -- it's just the way that the planning group has been doing business these days. When you look at the list, it's pretty impressive, so here it is.

Drupal - This web site is running Drupal, which is essentially the software that lets you make blog posts, comments, group-editable pages (like a wiki), surveys, attachments, RSS feeds, etc... It's an open source product and has a lot of modules that you can install to extend its functionality.

Student Interview Podcast: Students' Experience with Wikis

April 9, 2007 - 7:48am — Allan Gyorke
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Before the Symposium, the staff at Studio 204 took a trip to the HUB to interview some students about their experiences using wikis. Topics that came up: user-contributed content, questions about the quality of the information, the ability to find information quickly on nearly any topic, and the staying power of wikis.

If You Give Your Students Technology, You Might Just Help Them Learn

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 Time: 1:30 - 2:15 Location: Room 104 Presenters: Jill Lane, Research Associate
Angela R. Linse, Executive Director and Associate Dean, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
Kathleen T. Brown, Assistant Professor
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