The Week that Was - 2/2 to 2/6

I've also been trying to get a lot of the smaller pending projects off of my plate - ordering shirts for Educational Gaming Commons, creating support posters for the Digital Commons locations at the campuses, and working up some generic Penn State screen savers for the machines in the computer labs. I got the first two done and have been making headway on the third. Then I can concentrate on doing signs and more promotional materials for EGC as that space gets built over in Findlay.

I had an interesting conversation with Jamie Oberdick regarding revamping the TLT Talks. We have been wanting to get these back up and running, but we also want to expand them to get an audience outside of TLT. We were discussing how April is going to be our "Symposium month" on the TLT site. Essentially, every day's posted content will be related to our Symposium in some way. That led to us thinking that it would be great to have Jeff Swain give a talk at the end of March that would be about the Symposium. I remembered something that Jamie was doing in the previous version of the TLT newsletter that he called "7 Questions" where he would interview a staff member and ask them seven questions that would then be included in the newsletter in podcast form. So I was thinking that perhaps we could spotlight Jeff on the TLT site at the beginning of the month. We would give a little demographic info on him, but the spotlight would mostly be that he is the chair of this year's Symposium and include some info about the event. The spotlight on Jeff would also include a notice that he would be giving a TLT Talk at the end of the month regarding the Symposium. We could have people be able to sign up to attend the TLT Talk through the site, so we would know going in how many people are planning to come. We need to iron out some details, but this could work very nicely.