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    Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2013 Student Panel: What Makes a High Quality Video?
    (2013-10-01) Lamas, Andy; Shapiro, Eric
    The 2013 symposium explored ways through which courseware and online learning technologies can help us improve face-to-face time in the classroom. Guiding questions included: How can technology change what happens in the classroom? How can we best use our face-to-face time with students? How can we support all learners during face-to-face time? How can we ensure that students do what is needed out of class to be fully prepared during class?
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    Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2013 Student Panel: Dorm Room Diplomacy
    (2013-10-01) Levine, Zach; Lamas, Andy
    The 2013 symposium explored ways through which courseware and online learning technologies can help us improve face-to-face time in the classroom. Guiding questions included: How can technology change what happens in the classroom? How can we best use our face-to-face time with students? How can we support all learners during face-to-face time? How can we ensure that students do what is needed out of class to be fully prepared during class?
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    Making Sense of Happiness
    (2015-04-01) Stern, Meredith
    This video won second prize in the 2015 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. The contest theme for 2015 was "What Does Healthy Look Like?" Happiness is such an essential part of health and overall wellness, but what exactly is happiness? I decided to embark on a documentary project to find out, asking both friends and strangers on Penn's campus and nearby in West Philly what happiness means to them. Each person had very interesting definitions, but one theme that came up several times is that happiness is a choice. Happiness is very complex and subjective to be sure, but this struck me as an important truth; we do have a part in our own happiness, and I think that is something important to keep in mind. Credits: Penn students interviewed: Ahmed Mohieldin, Ashleigh Morgan, Vinita Saggurti, Vinesh Arun Vinarun, Melanie Mariano, Simon Benigeri, Jeremy Cohen, Chelsea Atkins, Alex Polyak, Sumun Khetpal, Hynn Jun Kim, Noelle Mcmanus ; People from outside of Penn interviewed: Dana Caputo and Emily Mayer.
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    Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2013: Oceans Online by Jane Dmochowski
    (2013-10-01) Dmochowski, Jane
    Jane Dmochowski, Managing Director of VIPER and Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, described her experience successfully flipping her Oceanography course using Canvas. The 2013 symposium explored ways through which courseware and online learning technologies can help us improve face-to-face time in the classroom. Guiding questions included: How can technology change what happens in the classroom? How can we best use our face-to-face time with students? How can we support all learners during face-to-face time? How can we ensure that students do what is needed out of class to be fully prepared during class?
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    Weigle Information Commons Music Video
    (2007-01-01) Leonard, Ryan
    Ryan Leonard, winner of the 2007 Mashup Contest and 2009 Sparky Awards, created this music video highlighting the spaces and staff in Penn's Weigle Information Commons.
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    Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2010 Student Panel: Note-taking and Technology
    (2010-10-01) Jansen, Thomas
    Student panelist Thomas Jansen, former photo editor for 34th Street Magazine, web development editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian, and lab consultant at the Vitale Digital Media Lab, highlights the inefficiencies of note-taking with technology. We live today in a state of 'continuous partial attention'. Instant access to people and information can both engage and distract us. New tools break down classroom boundaries and change the nature of college education. This year's symposium explores the creative ways faculty are integrating technologies into teaching, the challenges they face, and the disruptive nature of mobile technologies in lecture contexts.
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    Will Always Be Loved
    (2015-04-01) Dabney, Courtney
    This video won first prize in the 2015 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. The contest theme for 2015 was "What Does Healthy Look Like?" Society often only thinks of good health as good physical health, often overlooking the importance of mental health. Mental health can result in as great of a health burden or tragedy as physical illness. My video demonstrates the effects of that tragedy and death can have on the mental health of a young child which is often overlooked. It is important to increase the awareness of mental health in everyone, including young children. Credits: Voices - Donyea Cross, Alexa Esperanza, and Nicole Brevoort. Advisor - Joshua Mosley. Produced as part of a senior thesis class.
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    Phnom Penh
    (2014-10-01) Schupman, Will; Hatch, Evan
    This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City.
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    Rubber
    (2012-04-01) Birnbaum, Jackie; Feldman, William; Stillman, Kaytlena
    Dr. Lisa Mitchell, Associate Professor of South Asia Studies, has guided her students to create voiceover videos as class assignments for a large undergraduate class (ANTH 063 / SAST 063 / HIST 087) in South Asia Studies. Her class focuses on how the desire to possess and consume commodities has shaped cultures. In addition to the commodities studied by the full class, each student researches a commodity for an individual presentation. Projects from the 2012 spring semester include some integration of video content in addition to stills. Students in all six sections of the course viewed the videos, and chose winners at the section and course levels This video won 1st place overall. Jackie, William, and Kaytlena use a captivating combination of audio, image stills, and videos to trace the history of rubber. The group pinpoints World War II as the turning point for both perception and use of rubber. The video explores: The history of rubber Vulcanization as the gateway to widespread rubber adoption Rubber as a symbol of military power Effects of the development of synthetic rubber View curriculum and materials for this course
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    The Fall of Super Humans
    (2013-04-01) Likar, Tomas
    This is the first prize winner for the 2013 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. This mashup explores the seemingly omnipotent physical capabilities and perfect lives of athletes, who are often glorified and turned into "super humans" by their fans. While athletes are demanded to perform herculean acts, they quickly fall from their fans' graces when the duplicity behind their super human personas are discovered. Merging footage of elite athletes' moment of grandeur with clandestine images of doping and malefaction, [this] work strives to examine the rise and fall of recent heroes such as Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius and Marion Jones.