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Connecting People and Ideas through PennLaunch

pennedutech — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:36:54 +0000

“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.” – Philadelphia Business Journal

PennLaunch was developed by “A group of individuals at the Weiss Tech House [so that] members of the Penn community can connect with each other to ‘develop projects, products, services, ideas, anything,” said Wharton and Engineering junior Abhiraj Modi, one of the PennLaunch creators (Daily Pennsylvanian).

Several members of the Penn community had discussed the idea of a collaboration platform for people with similar ideas at the “A Whole New Mind-Inspired Event entitled Creating and Collaborating across Universities” back in October. I’m really excited to see that someone has felt the need for a similar service and took the initiative to see it through – I’m especially excited to see that the initiative involves Penn students. Thanks to Mary Conger from GSE for sharing the following resource: New Penn website connects projects and people.

9/25 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium

vedantha — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:27:48 +0000

Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 10:30 am to 3 pm

9/25 Symposium

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 media trends. Open to Penn faculty, instructors and graduate students. Details and Registration

The symposium begins with a faculty panel in Claudia Cohen Hall, and continues in the Weigle Information Commons with an informal lunch and Tech Tasting sessions for hands-on, small-group exploration. Faculty presenters include Linda Chance, Ann Greene, Alain Plante, Paul Rozin and Herb Smith from the School of Arts and Sciences and Amy Hillier from the School of Design. Each faculty presenter will discuss how and why they choose to use a specific technology in their teaching.

The Tech Tasting sessions include popular technologies such as Facebook, blogs, wikis, graphic design, video, web design, clickers and PowerPoint. Twelve topics are offered by presenters from several Penn organizations.