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Making the Lion Disappear - ARG Video

Earlier this summer the Digital Commons was approached about helping produce and create a video for an Alternate Reality Game (referred to as ARG) for the Penn State University Libraries open house. The video entailed among other things making...

Aviary Rocks with Free, Web-Based,GarageBand-Like Audio Editor - ReadWriteStart

http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/09/aviary-audio-editor.p..., the free, web-based suite of image-editing apps, is hatching a new addition today: A free, web-based audio editor to rival GarageBand and its ilk.This could be great for the Digital Commons....

Kaltura testing

I have been recently playing with Kaltura which is a video streaming services that is open source and interfaces directly with a wordpress or drupal site. This server/service has thus far impressed me. First I was able to get the...

Setting up compressor 3 to take advantage of Multi - core Macs

We recently decided to get a mac pro in the office in order to speed up our render times, rendering can be one of our most timely processes and our current MacBook Pro's were no longer getting the job done,...

Digital Storytelling at the TLT Symposium

I was talking to Allan Gyorke a few days ago about some different options for a pre-TLT Symposium workshop.  This also happened to be the same day that myself and the DC team had had an opportunity to hold a conference call with Bryan Alexander to...

Digital Storytelling at the TLT Symposium

I was talking to Allan Gyorke a few days ago about some different options for a pre-TLT Symposium workshop.  This also happened to be the same day that myself and the DC team had had an opportunity to hold a conference call with Bryan Alexander to discuss the work each of our groups are doing around digital storytelling.  So we got into talking about running a DS workshop similar to the one we did at the Digital Commons Tailgate last Fall.  Basically the way this goes is that participants get into small groups, pick a topic that's relevant to them professionally (very important), write a short script, collect...

Digital Commons/College of ED Faculty Brown Bag

Today we held the first in an ongoing series of Digital Commons faculty brown bags.  This one was with 20 faculty from the College of Education, and was organized with the help of Carla Zembal-Saul (a former ETS faculty fellow)...

Preparing for the semester in 3D

I spent a lot of time over the break working on some side projects and professionally developing some of my skills, I turned loose some of those skills this week to work on two projects. The first one is a...

DC Instructor's Guide

During the NMC Summer Conference I presented on the design of the Digital Commons service.  Every time I do this presentation I talk about the best practices we've distilled from the year or so we've been in operation, and the...

DC Instructor's Guide

During the NMC Summer Conference I presented on the design of the Digital Commons service.  Every time I do this presentation I talk about the best practices we've distilled from the year or so we've been in operation, and the collective decades of experience in my team (ok maybe not decades...  they're young but really good at what they do, and we all learn quickly).  Long story short, I decided I wanted to pull those best practices (which touch on the logistical as well as the pedagogical) into a very concise resource for instructors.  So I've been working on that...