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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 Laura Petro

  Laura Petro is a Junior in the College studying Communications and Hispanic Studies. She is also a cast member of Bloomers Comedy and Editorial Director of The WALK Magazine. The guiding question for the symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners?

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Student Panel: Hashtags as #curatorial Spaces

  Peter Decherney and Virginia Seymour

  Virginia Seymour is a Junior in the College studying Art History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She serves on the Undergraduate Advisory Board for both departments and is a MAP Advisor. Virginia is the director of Feminism/s programming at the Kelly Writers House and the coordinator of the Robinson Press imprint of the Common Press. The guiding question for the symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners?

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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 Lucas Siegmund

  Lucas Siegmund is a senior in the College majoring in PPE and the Chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE). The guiding question for the symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners?

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Student Panel: Hoesley & CWiC: Digital Literacy and Public Speaking Education at Penn

  Peter Decherney and Dyana Wing So

  Dyana Wing So is a junior majoring in Visual Studies where she also works as a student assistant. She is an adviser for the Communication Within the Curriculum (CWiC) public-speaking program, and a cohort participant in the Hoesley Digital Literacy Fellows Program. The guiding question for the symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners?

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Presentation by Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw

  Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

  The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners? Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of American Art and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies, Cinema Studies, and Women and Gender Studies, shares ideas for using presentation, web and exhibit design technologies to engage students.

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  The French House Song

  The French and Franchophone House

  A collaborative work involving French-learning / -speaking undergraduate and graduate students, the French House Song was composed, recorded and edited during the Fall 2014 semester, in and around Gregory College House.This entirely extra-curricular project took shape organically, as an opportunity for a different take on language learning and cultural awareness. Challenged to write in different modes, allow for various levels of complexity, aim at the most creative result, and take charge of technical matters, the wonderful singers featured in this video went above and beyond in their engagement with language learning. Watch (and listen to) them perform!

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Presentation by Rosemary Frasso

  Rosemary Frasso

  The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners? Rosemary Frasso, Director of Education, Center for Public Health Initiatives and Masters of Public Health Program will share her experiences teaching in the Van Pelt Collaborative Classroom and engaging her students with qualitative research techniques.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Presentation by Marybeth Gasman

  Marybeth Gasman

  The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners? Marybeth Gasman, Professor of Higher Education at Penn GSE will discuss how she has used social media, blogging and infographics to engage current students, alumni and prospective students with topics relevant to her graduate courses.

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  Iconography and Fantasy

  Daniel Haun

  This is the third prize winner for the 2014 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. Semiosis or semeiosis is the process that forms meaning from any organism's apprehension of the world through signs. A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign. Globalization has caused the development of a global consumer culture where products have similar associations, whether positive or negative, across numerous markets. Thus, we are faced with exponentially more signs and signifiers today, with less individual meaning. A homogeneity begins to pervade mass media as further and further imagery reach our tablets, smart phones and other devices at increasingly high speeds. It is difficult to parse through the content we want to see amidst the targeted media experience. The problem of the 21st century is not one of access to media, but rather the lose of digital autonomy. The lines between ad experience and original content blur until we can't delineate between the media we want to see and what is being shown to us.

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  Nairobi Jua Kali-Nairobi's Sunrise

  Soraya Hebron and Alejandro Utria

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City. This project explores the informal sector of Nairobi Kenya slums. Locally known as "street doctors" that use their ingenuity to fix the crumbling slums around them, jua kali make up a significant amount of Nairboi's informal workforce. With government investment and the proper training, the men of jua kali have the potential to change the paradigm of poverty and unemployment in the slums. The innovative drive of jua kali proves that the slums are not devoid of productivity and success, but that they are filled with un-nurtured potential.

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  The CRISPR/Cas9 System

  Jasmine Hwang

  This video, detailing the CRISPR/Cas 9 System, was created for Jeff Saven's course CHEM 251: Principles of Biological Chemistry

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  Hong Kong

  Gabe Leben and Melissa Vela

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course Globalization & the City. The video project explains the protests that occurred in Hong Kong in 2014. The "Umbrella Revolution" was held in the streets of Hong Kong from September 26 to December 15 in 2014. The main issue centered around proposed reforms for Hong Kong's electoral system, and the project explains significant issues regarding Hong Kong's relationship with China.

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  The Most Astounding Fact

  Katie Levesque

  This is the second prize winner for the 2014 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. Life on this planet exists because of stars that no longer do. This is amazing. Sometimes people need to remember this, step away from the chaos that is the world as we know it, and bask in the chaos that is the universe as we can only imagine it.

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  Bogotá

  Emma Miller and Greg Chalfin

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City. A quarter century ago, Colombia’s capital city Bogotá was plagued by frequent and ongoing civil conflict. However, the Colombian economy has since emerged as one of the largest in Latin America and several infrastructure and public works projects have completely remade the landscape of Bogotá. We examine Bogotá's status as a global city and explore the reclaiming of public space through street art as well as the new policies that have been able to revamp the infrastructure of the city and in turn fuel economic growth and maintain a lower crime level so that the population is finally able to actively engage with the city’s space.

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  Two Nations, One City: The Worlding of Port of Spain

  Tuli Mitra-Majumdar and Leniqueca Welcome

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course Globalization & the City. This short film traces the historical economic development of Trinidad and Tobago, and the branding of Port of Spain which has produced a disinvestment in other local communities. It focuses on the Fifth Summit of the America hosted in the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the protest around it by Beetham residents as the government of Trinidad and Tobago leading up to the Summit constructed what they called a “berm”—in reality a five-foot wall— to obscure the low-income community from visiting leaders.

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  Frankfurt

  David Moore and Paul Raupach

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

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  Upenn Happy Video

  Aditya Narayan

  This is the People's Choice Award winner (determined by online voting) for the 2014 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. As graduating students this May, the last 2 years have been an exciting and a fun-filled experience for [the creators]. [They] have decided to make a happy video with some amazing people and shots at some amazing locations at one of the most beautiful campuses. Credits: Aayush Sharma, Gopinath Danda, Sravya Kotaru and Tharun Reddy.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2014 Presentation by Jeffery Saven

  Jeffery Saven

  The guiding question for our annual faculty symposium was: How can technology empower our students, and us, as learners? Jeffery Saven, Professor of Chemistry, will share lessons learned through the use of video assignments and peer review to model and engage researchers in biomolecular science.

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  Phnom Penh

  Will Schupman and Evan Hatch

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

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  Istanbul

  Adam Weiss, Jessica Haghani, and Thalia Guzman

  This video was created for Arjun Shankar's URBS 457 course, Globalization & the City. The theme of the film concentrates on the presence of media within the context of a modernizing Istanbul. We looked at how media relates to art, music, and culture, and, specifically, how the youth of Istanbul relates to it.

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  She's Funny That Way

  Emily Brill

  This is the People's Choice Award winner (determined by online voting) for the 2013 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. [This video] highlights everyday activities that are elevated by love in romantic movies from the time period between 1928 (the date of Neil Moret's orchestration She's Funny That Way) and 1978 (the date of the poem by Michael Lally She's Funny That Way from Penn Sound).

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  The Baroness' Song

  Nandini Chandrasekaran

  This is the third prize winner for the 2013 Video contest celebrating student creativity with video and multimedia. Baroness Schraeder is too often forgotten, or unfairly remembered as a villain, a wedge, the evil stepmother, the "witch" of this classic children's film. [This video is] a music video honoring her character's complexity and Parker's nuanced portrayal; letting Robyn and Whitney restore her subjectivity with the heartbreaking solo that she never got.

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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2013: Oceans Online by Jane Dmochowski

  Jane Dmochowski

  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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  Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium 2013: Language Education by Christina Frei

  Christina Frei

  Christina Frei, Executive Director of Language Instruction for the School of Arts & Sciences, shared her personal experiences teaching German with structured online activities in 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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  Engaging Students Through Technology 2013: Flipping Physics by Paul Heiney

  Paul Heiney

  Paul Heiney, Professor of Physics, will reflect on flipping his Physics 101 class. He shared simple self-recorded videos (many using voice-over PowerPoint) through Canvas and organized small-group activities during class time to help students understand and apply scientific concepts. He will discuss the nuts-and-bolts as well as the philosophical aspects of his experiences. 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?