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A lot of startups are launching special features arounds events and location for SXSWi. Something we should watch if we are interested in ideas for our own events like the symposium.  Here the trick is that the app uses geolocation to determine what events are available to you. No need to find the right tag or group to use to post to a shared event space.

A project out of College of Ed that ETS collaborated on.  This group created some augmented reality apps for the iPod and iPad to help young students (I believe 3rd or 4th grade) learn about their natural environment, in particular how to identify trees.  Pretty cool stuff.

"During the event, faculty and staff led children through a variety of hands-on learning stations. For example, Zimmerman, along with Associate Professor of Education Susan Land and a team of six education graduate students, led a station titled, "Tree Investigators," in which they used iPads and iPods (provided by Penn State's Educational Technology Services) to give the kids an in-depth lesson on how to identify trees. "We used iPads to figure out what type of tree we were planting," said Collin Wayne, a student from Park Forest Elementary School, who attended the event. "We were in groups and we used a tree-finder app. You take a picture of a symbol and it tells you about the tree.""

Penn State Live article about a College of Education project. Elementary school students used iPads and iPod Touches to interact with data about trees in the arboretum. We talked with Susan Land and Heather Zimmerman about the project and helped out by loaning them some equipment. Future partnerships with them are in the works.

A nice summary with stats from Nick Smerker about the Media+Gaming event that was held at the Harrisburg campus. This is a good example of a lightweight debriefing report.

"What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head - lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School - presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students' reliance on and use of Web sources."

This event wasn't even on my radar, sorry to have missed it. Did anyone from PSU attend? Two of the themes align closely with this year's Summer Camp (classrooms & globalization).