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Connecting People and Ideas through PennLaunch
“Penn’s Weiss Tech House has created an online database for Penn students, staff, faculty and alumni who want to find people with specific skills for jobs or projects, or advertise their skills to others.
The Weiss Tech House put up PennLaunch the week of March 11 and began advertising it the week of March 18.” – [...]
Higher Education Technology Events at Penn
There’s never a lack of things to do to expand one’s mind at Penn! Here are some great events coming up that are relevant to anyone interested in engaging students through technology:
Penn UICONF 2010 – July 21 & 22 – Higher Education Web Symposium
HigherEdCamp Philly – A day long higher education technology unconference on [...]
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 [...]
Game Theory and Technology
This is my first official post on the Penn Engaging Students through Technology blog so I’d like to quickly introduce myself. My name is Erin Murphy and I work for a group at Wharton Computing called the Learning Lab. Each year the Learning Lab receives proposals from Wharton professors to develop web-based applications that extend [...]


