New Technologies
Hoesley Digital Literacy Fellows
We have recently announced this new program that aims to demystify technology, provide hands-on training and a website building project, and foster career connections. We will accept 15 rising juniors and seniors – application deadline of March 24 – and this cohort will spend next year with us at Weigle Information Commons learning about a [...]
POSER and DAZStudio: Easy 3D Worlds and Figures
The terms “3D” and “easy” rarely go together. Modeling environments or characters in 3D programs is often time consuming and frustrating and the learning curve for most programs doesn’t seem worth the effort. Trying to incorporate 3D modeling or scenes into a class project can seem nearly impossible because it takes all semester for student [...]
Online Workshop Teaching: Shouting down a deep well
On Monday I taught my first hands-on workshop completely online using Penn Libraries’ new Adobe Connect room. I chose to teach Excel Pivot Tables under the logic that anyone interested in pivot tables would be comfortable enough with juggling multiple windows and handling sound problems. This was a good assumption – the seven participants handled [...]
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 [...]
9/25 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 10:30 am to 3 pm
It’s not a coincidence that our symposium has the same name as this blog! Several regular bloggers here are involved and we hope all of you will join us.
Explore teaching with new media through faculty insights, hands-on exploration of four technologies and an overview of new [...]
Wolfram Alpha – not a “homework killer”, but something to watch
If you read technology news, or even the Chronicle of Higher Education, you may have heard of Wolfram Alpha, a free online tool that is somewhere between a search engine, a database, and a computer algebra system. The launch of Wolfram Alpha in mid-May of this year was met with much fanfare in certain circles, [...]
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 [...]
Online Mashup Voting – Now through April 30
Something fun to share – our annual mashup contest has taken off this year with 33 entries, and for the first time, we are taking online votes and all entries are linked there with descriptions. Online voting closes on April 30 at 10 am.At our awards event this Thursday, we will award prizes to the [...]
Reporting from the NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning
Well, this isn’t really a live “report from the symposium”, but it just ended last night, so it’s fresh in my mind! The Symposium offered a variety of interesting sessions, an it was a great way to learn about other schools’ projects and ‘meet’ others in SecondLife without having to spend money on travel. More [...]
