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...]
Following Up on People, Places, Spaces Event in Pittsburgh
We Listen program co-director, Heather Hughes and Penn State Center liaison, Nick Smerker swung by the People, Places and Spaces event hosted by GTECH Strategies on Pittsburgh's Northside this past week to get an update on the work being done this summer by interns Emily Paskewicz and Jeff Holzer. The event served as both the first public debut of the community asset map developed by Penn State, CMU and Chatham landscape architecture students and a forum for conversation about the neighborhoods represented by the "Northside" region. In addition to being a very exciting gathering in its … [Read more...]