This week the library and our teaching centre co-hosted a Wikipedia in the Classroom event. We were pleased to have Jonathan Obar, Wikipedia teaching fellow come and give an overview of the Canadian Education Program. He opened the session with the trippy and beautiful audio experience from Listen to Wikipedia. Jonathan gave a great perspective… Read More »
tl;dr I use #slack as a chat room and it’s useful. To be truthful, I don’t really want to kill email. I still quite like it for many purposes. A lot of the time, however, it’s just not the right tool. Twitter and text messages are better for short spurts of communication but they are… Read More »
This week for Thought Vectors we are to read Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Atlantic essay As We May Think and choose a nugget. This means to: Take a passage from the reading that grabs you in some way and make that passage as meaningful as possible. creative commons licensed ( BY-ND ) flickr photo shared by frau-Vogel Choosing just one… Read More »
Wow, what a great question. I’m with Cindy on a lot of points, it’s not an easy question to answer. At first, I wanted to glibly say, “Great! I feel GREAT when I think!” but a my over-riding skeptical side knows that’s just not true. To work it through, I charted out my “logical” thought… Read More »
This is my best #thoughtvector selfie. I’m trying not to overthink it. Just geting a post up so I can test the feed. I can always edit this later. Don’t be afraid, they say. I think if @scottlo can get over it, so can I. My cat liked this selfie activity so much, she wanted… Read More »
May 13-16 I visited the lovely Thompson Rivers University campus in Kamloops, British Columbia for the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. The theme was confluence, which draws on the unique geography of Kamloops, situated at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers. The concept of water meeting was mimetic through many… Read More »
Last month, I was pleased to be invited by Antonio Vantaggiato and his team to Puerto Rico to live draw visual notes for TEDxUSagradoCorazón. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine In the past, I’ve seen quite a few TEDx events drawn live on paper but I was excited to… Read More »
Monday was the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday and I had the pleasure of eating far too much turkey and pumpkin pie on Sunday. The day off work gave me the great opportunity to digest all the food and also take in some great sessions live streamed from Virginia’s OpenVA conference kick off – Minding the Future.… Read More »
Today’s Daily Create prompts: “We predict the next book by @anya1anya is about #ds106. Design her some cover art” Originally, I thought I’d be clever by a half and do something snarky or funny but this ended up being quite a sincere work. Go figure. I really think Anya should write her book as a… Read More »
This week Brock hosted our third visit from Glynis Wilson Boultbee in the form of a Summer Teaching Institute. The two day workshop focused on creative tools to encourage student engagement. On the afternoon of the second day, we held a one hour “conference” in which every one of the 12 participants were invited to… Read More »