On Tuesday, July 26th beginning at 10:00 am, a group of nine faculty and staff will become the first to bring the University-wide We Listen program to the Beaver community. Participants will be learning the ropes of facilitating story listening techniques in their courses, teams, groups and other facets of campus life. They will also get a chance to go hands on and practice the story gathering process, gaining valuable insight into the risks and rewards of sharing tales of diversity with one another through video. Finally, attendees will be given a preview of the newly-installed One Button … [Read more...]
Previewing Upcoming Conference Presentation: Designs on eLearning in London
We Listen co-director, Heather Hughes and Penn State Center in Pittsburgh liaison, Nick Smerker have been selected to present at this year's Designs on eLearning conference to be held from September 16-17th. Their presentation, "We Listen in Pittsburgh: Using Digital Story Listening/Telling to Capture Engaged Learning" will give attendees a brief history of the We Listen program, discuss the iterative design process and evolutionary methods that inform it across the Commonwealth and profile the beginnings of the partnership at the Penn State Center. Stay tuned for further information about … [Read more...]