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  A Font That Defines You

  Jacob Anderson

  I researched typographic representations in Philadelphia, as well as observers' reactions to said representations. I then channeled that research into a demonstration in which I assigned typefaces to people who wanted "A Font That Defines You." This video was created for David Comberg's course FNAR 130: Writing on the City.

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  St. Petersburg

  Ashley Archibald and Alan Gordin

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City.

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  Kuala Lumpur

  Alex Benya and Emma Singer

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City. In this video project we sought to understand the rapidly expanding city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As the city grows due to globalization, it is forced to rethink how and where public and private spaces are defined. We focus our study around the case study of Merdeka Park and examine the various parties invested in the space.

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  Will Always Be Loved

  Courtney Dabney

  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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  Outbreaks in Film

  Lauren Drinkard

  This video won the People's Choice Award (determined by online voting) in the 2015 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. The contest theme for 2015 was "What Does Healthy Look Like?" Public health has long been the redheaded stepchild in medicine, and yet one of Hollywood's favorite plots...especially catastrophic viruses. But how well does Hollywood depict real life public health responses to outbreak scenarios in some of its most well-known virus themed films? Let's find out.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium Presentation by Jim English

  Jim English

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Jim English, the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, Director of the Penn Humanities Forum and Director of the newly-opened Price Lab for Digital Humanities shared ideas for making humanities education relevant and exciting to undergraduate students.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Student Panel: Hoesley Digital Literacy Fellows Program

  Rolanda Evelyn and Peter Decherney

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Peter Decherney, Professor of Cinema Studies and English, facilitated a panel discussion with four current students. Rolanda Evelyn is a senior in the College majoring in Communication and double minoring in Consumer Psychology and Hispanic Studies. She is President of Penn Fashion Week and also a member of the 2015-2016 cohort in the Hoesley Digital Literacy Fellows Program.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Presentation by Peter Fader

  Peter Fader

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Peter Fader, Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor, Co-Director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative and Professor of Marketing shared how he uses algorithm-based peer-grading and Panopto video capture to engage students during and outside of class time

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Presentation by Joe Farrell

  Joe Farrell

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Joseph Farrell, Professor of Classical Studies, shared experiences and ideas about guiding students to co-create knowledge by using technology tools. Vergil website: http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Presentation by Phillip Gressman

  Phillip Gressman

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Philip Gressman, Professor of Mathematics, described how he uses the LightBoard at SAS Online Learning to create videos to engage students outside class time.

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  Organizational Patterns

  Patricia Jia

  This voice-over PowerPoint presentation discusses the importance of clear organization in a speech/presentation. It teaches 3 organizational patterns: topical, spatial, and chronological. This was created for Sue Weber's course COLL 135: "The Art of Speaking: CWiC Speaking Advisor Training."

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  Jakarta

  Brianna Krejci and Francis Leong

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City. This video examines the phenomenon of "worlding" in Jakarta. Themes such as infrastructure, real estate, tourism, and global investment markets have become pertinent in the city ever since it has stepped out on the the global stage.

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  8-Bit Distracted

  Ivan Moutinho

  This video won third prize in the 2015 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. The contest theme for 2015 was "What Does Healthy Look Like?" The dangers of being too focused on our smartphones and how its distractions can cause us to come into great danger. Credits: Fawzi Habib, Ariel Fishbein, Ivan Sokiriny, Deveroux Jordan, Sheharyar Sohail, Lisa Liu, Dan McDevitt, Leo Jikia, Ryan Masih, Eugene Olkhov and Jeshaiah Williams

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Student Panel: Tech-Integrated Classroom Through a Student's Perspective

  Elliot Oblander and Peter Decherney

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Peter Decherney, Professor of Cinema Studies and English, facilitated a panel discussion with four current students. Elliot Oblander is a Junior in Wharton and the College studying Statistics, Actuarial Science, and East Asian Area Studies. He is a teaching assistant for Statistics and BEPP courses and does research on applied statistics and customer analytics, and hopes to pursue a PhD in Statistics or Operations Research.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology 2015 Presentation by Mélanie Péron

  Mélanie Péron

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Mélanie Péron, Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Coordinator of French 202, discussed a project where her students used graphic design, WordPress blogging and social media to develop a deeper connection with a city they explored through Penn Abroad.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Student Panel: Piazza

  Jibreel Powell and Peter Decherney

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Peter Decherney, Professor of Cinema Studies and English, facilitated a panel discussion with four current students. Jibreel Powell is a Senior in the College, majoring in Cognitive Science, with minors in French and Computer Science. He serves on the SAS Student Technology Advisory Board, and is a Teaching Assistant for CIS 110: Introduction to Computer Programming.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2015 Student Panel: Committee on Undergraduate Education

  Laura Sorice and Peter Decherney

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration! Peter Decherney, Professor of Cinema Studies and English, facilitated a panel discussion with four current students. Laura Sorice is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Political Science and minoring in Urban Studies and Italian Literature. She hopes to attend law school after graduation. Laura currently serves as the chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE). In the past, SCUE has addressed the changing landscape of educational practices at the university level, specifically considering the use of new technologies in the classroom.

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  Making Sense of Happiness

  Meredith Stern

  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 2015: Opening Remarks by Stanton Wortham

  Stanton Wortham

  The 2015 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium was held on Friday, October 30. We brought together faculty, staff and graduate students for a day of sharing, networking and celebration!

  Stanton Wortham, faculty director of the Online Learning Initiative and Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in the Graduate School of Education provided opening remarks.

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  Scribbles of Bs

  Luming Yang

  This video was created for David Comberg's course FNAR 130: Writing On The City: Letterforms, Technology And Philadelphia Culture This is a collection of Bs that I drew for my Freshmen seminar at Penn. The idea is to show that there is beauty hidden everywhere around us. Sometimes we just don't notice it. The pictures are chosen from my Instagram @luming_yang. Music - Summer by Joe Hisaishi

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  BPA Affects Steroidogenesis Pathways

  Prisca Alilio, Melissa Ramirez, and Susan Zhang

  This video was created for Jeff Saven's course CHEM 251: Principles of Biological Chemistry. Professor Saven tasked us to create a 5 minute video discussing the molecular basis of a biological process. My group focused on the compound BPA (bisphenol A), which has been quite controversial in public discussion. BPA is widely used in daily plastic products, despite some research pointing the compound's disruptive nature to fundamental human hormonal processes. We focused on the effects of BPA on steroidogenesis, a pathway producing hormones such as testosterone and estrogen.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Presentation by Jeffrey Babin

  Jeffrey Babin

  The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners? Jeffrey Babin, Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, shares lessons learned through use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies to elicit questions from students and encourage peer-to-peer collaboration.

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  Glocal Seoul

  Ariella Boillat, Denisse Guevara, and Yifei Xiao

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization and the City. The video explores the different waves of globalization experienced by Seoul.

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  WE

  Mengxi Cissy Tan

  This is the first prize winner for the 2014 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. We all have been experiencing self-discrepancy since childhood. However, this psychological confusion is always overlooked by the surrounding and hard to solve. In this video, I'm telling a story from my childhood in my native language to explore the different perceptions of oneself. Credits: Joshua Mosley and Erinn Hagerty from PennDesign.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Student Panel: How Can Technology Empower Our Students, and Us, as Learners?

  Peter Decherney and Rebecca Hallac

  Rebecca Hallac is a Junior studying Digital Media Design. She does research with the school of Design and TAs computer science classes. The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners?