I’ve just returned from three excellent professional development events: BC Campus Online Community Enthusiasts (#OCE2012), Northern Voice (#nv12) and Society for Teaching, Learning in Higher Education (#STLHE2012) I have more specific reflections on each of those events but a very interesting question arose this week that I really want to explore. #stlhe2012 to those who… Read More: Archiving Insights »
Big virtual party as we (sorta) gather all the pictures of the Wäbbits for our big group photo. Listening to the wisdom of my RSS feeds, Ben reminds us that camp counselors should lead by example. Fellow Wäbbit, John saysKeep Calm and Make a GIF. Not sure how to take Bava’s below the belt advice,… Read More: Wäscälly Wäbbits Weception »
For those of you who haven’t met me at Camp MacGuffin yet, my camper name is Doodle Bug because I’m a hobbiest entomologist and I like to draw stuff. The first week of Camp MacGuffin has been really exciting. First I moved all my stuff into Bunkhouse 1 but realized I read the Bunk assignments… Read More: Camp MacGuffin – Counselor G Log 1 »
Sunday’s Daily Create was to take a picture that shows motion. I decided to make it rather show a movement. I love the celebratory, non-violent movement of this ensemble featured in The Huffington post. I’ve included the embed of the video below. It’s quite moving. I love the track titled Intuition by Astronomie. It’s en… Read More: Casserole Ensemble »
I had the honour to be invited to speak at University of Mary Washington’s 2012 Faculty Academy in Virginia. Andy Rush did an excellent job of recording the session. The thought of talking straight for an hour terrified me that I’d have a room full of sleeping people, so I tried to incorporate some of… Read More: UMW Faculty Academy »
After seeing this tweet: The insanity is not only a belief in THE test, but the premise that ANY test is suitable 2 determine another’s worth. #pineapplegate — Mary Ann Reilly (@MaryAnnReilly) April 23, 2012 I did some research on this Pineapple Story. Such nonsense. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared… Read More: Nonsense »
If I did this assignment perfectly the images wouldn’t be necessary but hey, I brought my camera and the sound matches these pictures… Out of the elevator Down the tunnel Many languages of tourists Roar of the Falls
Me and the gals learned to stop worrying and love the propaganda. Because we’re in DS106 now. This is an ANIMATED propaganda poster based on “We’re in the army now” retro poster. I used Photoshop and very crudely selected out the bits I wanted to erase, used the eyedropper to select the background colour and… Read More: Join in the brand »
Jim Groom invited me to present to his DS106 class yesterday. Unfortunately this week has been a challenge to do things in the evenings synchronously so I pre-recorded this video [7min] For those of you who can’t sit through 7 minutes of video, here’s a quick outline of the talk: Introduction to me (In B&W,… Read More: Learning by Design: Sketchnoting in DS106 »
My Flickr stream is getting a lot of hits these days. As an online petition grows by the thousands per day, I’m getting a few hundred visits DAILY to my recent visualization of Timothy Gower’s blog post and The Chronicle of Higher Ed article, Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics. cc licensed ( BY… Read More: The Cost of Knowledge »