Archive for September, 2009
Cool stuff
The New Media Centers Consortium (http://www.nmc.org/) does a great job of helping to promote effective use of technology for education. They’ve recently started their “Cool Tech” site to help people find and share cool stuff (OK, some of it may be more cool than useful). Alan Levine, Vice President of NMC and a genuinely cool [...]
MGMT 652 Leadership Simulation: A Story about Potential
Lately I’ve come to realize that there can be a strange difference between knowing and believing – that faith arises out of a different facet of humanity than knowledge. For years, I knew in some way that I deserved the good things that seemed to serendipitously enter my life but I couldn’t rise above my [...]
2nd Life for Language Practice
Like Facebook, 2nd Life (SL) is a social network that can provide students with online collaborative spaces for extra language practice outside the brick and mortar classroom. With the assistance of Deke Kassabian of ISC and designer Claudia Rossini, the Penn Language Center is building a virtual reality based on Williams Hall on Penn’s campus. [...]
