Links We Love: July 30, 2015

Five things that shouldn’t be missed from this past week! 1. World Campus student, Monica Rodriguez Keller, visited campus for the first time this July. 2. Seats for Servicemembers offers donated football tickets to the Penn State-Army West Point game on October 3. 3. Whooo’s cute? This baby owl! 4. The EvoLLLution featured an interview…

Links We Love

Five things that shouldn’t be missed from this past week! 1. Some helpful tips on using sunscreen. 2. Bob, the golden retriever, has 8 birds and one hamster as his buddies–and a great Instragram account! 3.  YUM! The Berkey Creamery’s newest flavor is Birthday Cake. Find out more details on the Creamery’s 150th anniversary! 4.…

Utilizing Penn State’s Interlibrary Loan System

The Penn State Library’s Interlibrary Loan System can help you with accessing course materials at a distance. The system allows you to search all the libraries associated with Penn State (University Park and all campuses) in order to locate an item to be sent directly to you. If you live within the continental United States,…

Links We Love

Five things that shouldn’t be missed from this past week! 1. The “We Are” sculpture, gift of Penn State’s Class of 2013, was installed on University Park campus this week. 2. Learn 12 ways to defuse a workplace conflict by Inc. 3. Independence Day recipes, crafts, and decorations to get you feeling festive by Better…

Faculty Focus: Josh Kirby

We recently caught up with Josh Kirby, lead faculty member for Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) online programs at Penn State. Here’s our conversation: Please give our readers a sense of your background and how you arrived at your current position at Penn State. I’m new to my role as the lead faculty member for…

Links We Love

Five things that shouldn’t be missed from this past week! 1. A timelapse video of painting ice at Pegula Ice Arena. 2. The 15 Keys to Workplace Happiness. 3. World Campus student Thomas Fritz and Beryl Brodsky at Old Main with their Co-Motion tandem bike. 4. Get the buzz on summer insect bites. 5. Cat…

Penn State Faculty Focus: Douglas R. Lindsay, PhD, Lt. Col., USAF (ret.)

Teaching Graduate Programs in Psychology and Leadership Dr. Lindsay retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2014, after 22 years of dedicated service, to take on the directorship of the Penn State World Campus Master of Professional Studies in Psychology of Leadership at Work (MPS) program. We recently spoke with him about his background and…

How to Navigate Courses if You Have a Disability: JooYoung Seo’s Student Perspective

I’m Sonya Woods, an accessibility consultant for Penn State’s World Campus Learning Design. Part of my job is working with instructional designers and instructional production specialists to help them design course content that works well for students with disabilities, including blindness. Since I work with design staff and our students are at a distance, I…