Classroom Activities
Making Mythology: Comic Books with “Comic Life”
Of all the news about the president-elect and his plans to remake the government (and, consequently, the culture), one of the most relevant to my current class was revealed this week. Barack Obama is a fanboy, a reader of comic books, an aficionado of “Spider Man” and “Conan the Barbarian.” Now, that’s pretty cool because no matter [...]
Michelangelo 3D Slideshow
Penn Libraries recently announced a cool new way to explore the image collection at the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library. Here is a Michelangelo Slideshow I made in a few seconds - click the blue arrow at top to start. The CoolIris 3D software may require a plug-in download. You can create [...]
Getting students engaged using “clickers”
Audience Response Systems, or “clickers”, are an increasingly popular way to get students in large lecture courses engaged both with the material and with their fellow students. More than a dozen courses across the University are using clickers this semester, with 10 courses and more than 1500 students using them in SAS alone.
These clickers allow [...]
Penn Law’s Second Annual Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable
Professor Regina Austin has written to us about an upcoming event at Penn Law School on Friday, October 17 that should be of interest to public interest lawyers, entertainment lawyers, law students, law professors, ITS specialists with public interest organizations, documentary filmmakers, and members of the Penn community who are interested in nonfiction video production [...]
Blackboard’s Wiki
Blackboards’s Wiki
I have found that wikis can provide students and teachers with a number of ways to collaborate with each other on written documents. A wiki is frequently an article that has been created, edited and developed by several authors over an extended or limited period of time. One of the prime examples of [...]
Invite special guests to your class via web conferencing
Do you have a research collaborator, subject matter expert or other guest whom you would like to invite to speak with your class?
It’s no longer necessary to reserve special videoconferencing rooms in order to make a connection between your class and a remote participant. The new breed of web conferencing tools - iChat, Skype, Windows [...]
Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Several Penn folks from different schools have been meeting every so often to discuss Second Life and other virtual worlds. Here at the Weigle Information Commons, we have rented some space on a library-focused island - this SL space looks much like the real commons with a central conference area suitable for a class or [...]
NMC’s Rock the Academy Virtual Conference
This news just in from the New Media Consortium: a virtual symposia exploring emerging forms of collaboration and tools. Anyone interested in co-presenting a project at Penn?
Rock the Academy
Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008, via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded [...]
Alerts and Feeds
I have begun exploring push technologies recently and wanted to share my experiences. Keeping up with new developments in my areas of interest has often been difficult, especially since instructional technology always seems to have new trends. I began by creating an iGoogle page where I added feeds of interest to me including the [...]
