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...]
Co-Directors Present on World Wide Narratives at Harrisburg in Tampere, Finland
We Listen program co-directors Shivaani Selvaraj and Heather Hughes will present their paper "World Wide Narratives: Amplifying Story-Listening with Mobile Devices" at the AACE EdMedia 2014 World Conference in Tampere, Finland between June 23rd and 26th. The paper, published in the conference proceedings and available in the EdIT Library (or by request) covers the beginnings of what would become the University-wide We Listen program and the initial plans for growth. View the abstract: This paper details the motivations for and implementation of a campus-wide program designed to … [Read more...]