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Daily Buzz

News from the daily goings-on at TLT. These news items are part of the TLT monthly Newsletter.

BuzzLion for the week of November 1
BuzzLion takes a weekly look at what Teaching and Learning with Technology staff is thinking, learning, writing, creating, and doing.
Sparky Awards give students chance to enter videos for prize money, resume building
Penn State students are invited to produce a video entry for the 2009 Sparky Awards, organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
TLT CoffeeRead for November 4: Free content revolutionizing education
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
New site enables Penn State community to reap benefits of E-portfolios
Teaching and Learning with Technology has launched a new site, E-portfolios at Penn State, giving Penn State students, faculty, and staff a resource that allows them to begin and maintain an e-portfolio.
TLT CoffeeRead for November 2: Online K-12 education makes housecalls
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
BuzzLion for the Week of October 25
 
TLT CoffeeRead for October 28: Thanking teachers....digitally
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
EGC Works Podcast #5: The Virtual Palmer Museum in Second Life
Penn State’s Palmer Museum of Art exists both in this world, and in a parallel universe. This isn’t surrealism meets science fiction, but the efforts of Palmer staff and the Educational Gaming Commons to create a “virtual” Palmer Museum in the virtual world Second Life.
TLT CoffeeRead for October 26: Scientists hope to network Facebook-style
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
BuzzLion for Week of October 18
BuzzLion takes a weekly look at what Teaching and Learning with Technology staff is thinking, learning, writing, creating, and doing.
Podcasts enhance learning in French language course
A Penn State professor is working with a Florida Atlantic University faculty member on a project focused on using podcasts in an advanced French class.
TLT CoffeeRead for October 21 - Texas-Austin opens new center dedicated to low-cost textbook alternatives
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
German Online at PSU offers flexible language learning through smart use of technology
German Online at PSU program offers a series of three fully online courses that has received high marks from students, faculty.
TLT CoffeeRead for October 19: AcaWiki Increases Impact of Scholarly Research Using Web 2.0
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
Collaborative learning spaces technology helps students with group projects
There is a trend towards faculty assigning projects where students must work on a team to complete an assignment. To ensure students have access to areas where they can work together on group projects, Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has been installing collaborative learning spaces equipped with the latest technologies around the University Park campus.
TLT CoffeeRead for October 14: Does your social class determine your online social network?
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
It's better to be open: WebLion programmer/analysts discuss life in the open source world
Michael Miller and Michael Mulich, programmer/analysts with WebLion, talked recently with Jamie Oberdick, Daily Buzz editor, about open source software development. Along being great for programming, Miller and Mulich have found the open source environment to have other professional, and social, benefits as well.
TLT CoffeeRead for October 12: Education advocates push for net neutrality
TLT CoffeeReads take a look at educational technology in the media, from Penn State to around the world. Innovations at other schools, education and technology issues, new products and services, and other news are among subjects covered. These are designed to get people thinking and talking about how the articles relate to what we are doing here at Penn State in teaching and learning with technology.
BuzzLion for the Week of October 4
BuzzLion takes a weekly look at what Teaching and Learning with Technology staff is thinking, learning, writing, creating, and doing.
TLT Symposium Call for Proposals: Share your educational technology genius with your peers
 
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