New Technologies
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 [...]
Common Craft Video Primers
New to social media tools and web 2.o technologies? Check out Common Craft: Explanations in Plain English.
Common Craft owners Sachi and Lee LeFever are
dedicated to building a library of videos that are focused on helping influencers and educators create change through better explanations. Our videos are short, simple and focused on making complex ideas easy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Virtual Real-Time Collaboration
As we increasingly need to collaborate with each other across space and time, getting together with peers and colleagues gets more and more complicated. We’ve got a free tool that might make your life a bit easier: Yugma.
Yugma, whose name in Sanskrit means roughly “the state of togetherness”, is a free web conferencing tool that’s [...]
