iTunes U is finally here!
This Friday we hosted the public launch of iTunes U! This is a really exciting development after about a year of work by the UA and ISC. For those unfamiliar with the program, iTunes U is a central electronic resource that consolidates any Penn related media for students, faculty, Alumni, perspective students and the general public.
Here's the link for iTunes U at Penn: http://www.upenn.edu/itunes/ All you have to do is open your iTunes program and then click the link above on then the link on right that says "Take me to iTunes U."
Now that iTunes U is here, I really want to focus on wide-scale adoption of the program with an immediate focus on getting student group media on.
Please check it out and share your thoughts!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Calendar Proposal
Considering the amount of feedback given during last meeting's communication regarding the UA's decision to table Jay's Calendar Proposal, I thought that our blog would be a great place to continue our discussion and offer our personal insight and feedback.
Sunday night I voted to table the proposal. In retrospect I think that this vote may have been a bit premature, however, I still believe that there were enough main issues mentioned in the discussion and pro/con that could be improved on for the future proposal.
Personally, I really appreciate and agree with the spirit of Jay's proposal. I think that having a consolidated calendar system would do wonders for students. I'm looking forward to the progress that Jay makes on this proposal. That being said, I still have some reservations regarding the lack of screening and moderating associated with the calendar. It seemed like there would be no moderator and that this idea hadn't been thoroughly considered. The reason I feel this is really important is because the only thing worse than having no calendar is putting a lot of work and effort into a calendar that is inundated with frivolous and ridiculous events (think Facebook invites). Also having a poorly run temporary calendar would hurt the credibility and success of the permanent calendar to come. I think this is something that should be looked into and discussed before bringing the proposal back to the table.
Again I really enjoyed Jay's proposal and I'm looking forward to seeing it come back to the body again.
Sunday night I voted to table the proposal. In retrospect I think that this vote may have been a bit premature, however, I still believe that there were enough main issues mentioned in the discussion and pro/con that could be improved on for the future proposal.
Personally, I really appreciate and agree with the spirit of Jay's proposal. I think that having a consolidated calendar system would do wonders for students. I'm looking forward to the progress that Jay makes on this proposal. That being said, I still have some reservations regarding the lack of screening and moderating associated with the calendar. It seemed like there would be no moderator and that this idea hadn't been thoroughly considered. The reason I feel this is really important is because the only thing worse than having no calendar is putting a lot of work and effort into a calendar that is inundated with frivolous and ridiculous events (think Facebook invites). Also having a poorly run temporary calendar would hurt the credibility and success of the permanent calendar to come. I think this is something that should be looked into and discussed before bringing the proposal back to the table.
Again I really enjoyed Jay's proposal and I'm looking forward to seeing it come back to the body again.
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