Student Projects

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.” – [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Facebook for Language Practice

Like the social network 2nd Life, Facebook has gained in popularity not only among recreational users but also among educators and their students. Traditionally, members use Facebook to update personal profiles and notify their friends about each other. However, we now see Facebook being used in language classes  to create communities of online learners who [...]


Student privacy in a public world

In a previous post, I described some free, commercial tools that instructors and students can use for creating web sites for course projects. But planning a web project requires more than just finding the right technology platform. As an instructor, you  need to consider what type of material is – and is not [...]


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 [...]


Product Tutorials Can Provide Project Ideas

Some companies go beyond the norm when they produce tutorials for their products.  More than just basic how-to information, some tutorials provide suggestions for applications and instructions for how to accomplish specific tasks using their products.  Apple Computer is particularly good at this, and their “Productivity Lab” section of the science website offers short videos [...]


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 [...]


Free services for student-generated web sites

Many instructors want to get their students involved in contributing content to web sites for class projects; in some cases, they want the students to build a site from scratch.  IT support staff (such as myself) are typically reluctant to provision resources on University systems for such projects.  Setting up and maintaining sites can consume [...]


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 [...]