Presentation slides and resources from Writerly Wednesday, November 1, 2017 This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office Online. Quick Link resources: Nick Sousanis Unflattening #remixthediss #gridgestures Sunni Brown Doodler’s Unite Rob Dimeo’s Sketchnote Handout Research D’Antoni et al.: Does the mind map learning strategy facilitate information retrieval and critical thinking in medical students?.… Read More: Writerly Wednesday »
Brock University Department of Communications, Film, and Popular Culture hosted a Data Privacy panel talk this week. Cogeco Cable was onsite to record. I was onsite to visual note record, as I’m a big fan of both Natasha Tusikov and Karen Louise Smith. Following the arc of her amazing (and terrifying) book Chokepoints, Dr. Tusikov… Read More: Data Privacy »
Scaffolding has been one of my favourite metaphors for teaching and learning since I learnt of Vygotsky during my psychology of child development course in second year undergrad. Today, I briefly opened twitter to see this provocative statement: Scaffolding is "colonial, patriarchal, and disempowering" https://t.co/pWoYSQ4CQ9 #moocmooc — Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) January 25, 2016 I… Read More: When the scaffolding shifts under your feet »
Tales of the Collaborative Journey… With help from a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities I was able to dedicate a large portion of my summer working on this super cool project, led by Dr. David Fancy from Brock University’s Dramatic Arts department and logistically managed by my Centre for Pedagogical… Read More: Diversities in Acting Training »
Yesterday, Tuesday April 28 was the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation’s annual Spring Perspectives teaching & learning day. This year, our former director Dr. Barry Joe is retiring after 35 years at Brock University. In 2013, Barry had launched a new initiative called the Last Lecture, based on a U.S. tradition of having a faculty culminate the… Read More: Spring Perspectives »
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: Wikipedia in the Classroom »
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: Death to email »
HECQO released “How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature” by Tom Carey and David Trick. Tom will be at Brock University on August 7 to discuss this report with 25 eLearning folks from 16 Ontario Universities. The report is split into 3 parts:… Read More: HEQCO Report on Online Learning [visualized] »
While visiting the fastest blogger in the west, I’m challenged to complete all my draft blog posts, starting with this one from May 2013. What happened in May? Well, Niagara Falls was home to Connect 2013 a Canadian learning and technology conference. My colleague, Dr. Camille Rutherford was on the planning committee so I was… Read More: Connect2013 »
At my university, we gearing up for round three of our elearning initiative. Our website hosts a bit of criteria to guide faculty interested in moving their courses online. Our centre will provide the support infrastructure and faculty will receive the equivalent course release stipend to work with us and develop the course. The biggest… Read More: Planning an Online Course »