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Last week I was in Kelowna to attend the ETUG Spring Jam, a two-day conference hosted by the Educational Technology Users Group out of BCcampus. (BCcampus is an organization which supports all public higher educational institutions in British Columbia.) I attended...
#TryPod month: Three podcast recommendations
I heard on one of my favourite podcasts today that March is #TryPod month, a month to get people who aren't listening to podcasts already to try them. I think I still have time to slip a post on this under the wire, this being the last day of March, so here are three...
Trying out Facebook Live: Part 2 – Facilitating the Webinar
Last week I wrote a post detailing Part 1 of my experience trying out Facebook Live, and I shared a few things that I learned while getting started with this tool. In this post I want to share with you some of the things I learned while doing the session itself and...
Trying out Facebook Live: Part 1 – Getting Started
Yesterday I took a small leap for my business and tried out the new Facebook Live. Well, I suppose this livestreaming feature isn't so "new" anymore, but I feel like I haven't seen a lot of people doing it yet and wanted to jump on board. I was intrigued by it and...
Co-facilitating Liberating Structures immersions
Isn't it interesting to look back sometimes on a year and see how you've progressed on an issue or self developed? No, this isn't a reflective new years post (a little late in March!) but just one that is prompted by my thinking about this time a year ago, and...
Personal project on the go
I just started planning a workshop to offer with a friend and colleague, and during our planning conversation the other day I spoke about how - by working on planning this workshop - I was breaking my "rule" about the type of work that I take on right now. I've been...
Learning how we learn
One of the most enjoyable things I've been doing work-wise lately is learning more about how people learn. Here are some examples: Last year I got the excellent book Design for How People Learn and in February I picked up the Make it Stick book at the UBC Bookstore ...
Attending Liberating Structures
Last week I was in Vancouver, attending a two and a half day workshop called "Liberating Structures" offered through BC Campus and the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. I had learned about Liberating Structures only last summer, when one of the faculty...
Where are your students doing their work?
Right now I'm involved in teaching two courses, both online. Course A is a nine-week credit course and Course B is a five-week non-credit course. I'm teaching Course A for the first time and I've taught Course B many times. Teaching Course A is a very different...
The way I blog
I mentioned two or three weeks ago on my Facebook page that I'd love to spend more of 2016 blogging. Believe it or not, I've been a blogger since 2005, from back when it was very "out there", very weird and I felt I had to be slightly furtive about the whole blogging...