POGIL and clickers bring learning to classroom

Clickers and POGIL may not sound like academic terms, but a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg is utilizing them to enhance learning and knowledge in his chemistry classrooms.

If you’ve seen the TV program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," you’re familiar with personal response systems — those clickers the audience uses to register their votes. Associate Professor of Chemistry Thomas Eberlein is pairing clickers in the classroom with a student-centered active learning technique called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to encourage students to learn to reason through problems.

Original drama, concert to highlight King Day observance

Penn State Harrisburg’s community observance of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Jan. 19 will again include an original dramatic production and a musical celebration.

For the 11th consecutive year, the day’s observance begins at noon in the Capital Union Building on campus with an original play written by faculty member and Harrisburg resident Dr. Dorothy King. Then at 4 p.m., Harrisburg’s G.A.T. Fellowship Choir will take the stage for a celebratory concert.

Students create web site for area nonprofit

The Harrisburg Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has a much-needed web presence for the first time, thanks to the talented efforts of three Penn State Harrisburg undergraduate students.

The work of the Information Sciences and Technology majors -- Daryl Hechanova from the Philippines, Kelsey Kerr, Hershey, and Kevin Griffin, Chadds Ford – drew the praises of local CF staff at an official “hand-off” celebration of the Web site earlier this month.

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