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 »
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: Big Data Sensemaking »
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: Astounding act of sharing non-astounding practice »
This is my contribution to the call for posters to represent the incredible Domain of One’s Own intitiative. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Giulia Forsythe I had a lot of visual notes from talks that I wanted to combine into one large visualization as a sort of homage to… Read More: Domain of One’s Own [visualized] »
Wifi in K-12 schools in Victoria, BC specifically. There was so much twitter action, I had to collect what I could. The tweets are a bit out of order chronologically but I tried to make sense of the themes. I’ve been watching the debate brew over at http://wifiinschools.ca/ and while I believe that wifi is… Read More: Wifi in Schools »
My Flickr stream and blog are filling up with these digital doodlings from conferences and meetings. I’ve made some pretty cool connections by doing these sketchnotes. One of my favourite connections dates back to May 2012, when I attended the University of Guelph’s Teaching, Learning and Innovation Conference. The Godfather of Adult Education, Stephen Brookfield… Read More: Critically Reflective Doodler »
There’s a lot to like about the EDCMOOC currently running in Coursera. It’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to a cMOOC on an xMOOC platform. That said, the platform hinders its greatness. This course would be just about perfect if it existed entirely on the open web. Indeed, much of it does. I like… Read More: EDCMOOC: Utopia, as x approaches c »
First, check out the Mozilla Popcorn tutorial: You can click on Projects and REMIX an existing project. I modified this one in 20 seconds by changing the Google map to St.Catharines and the tweets to #Brocku: Here is slightly more extensive remix of the Buffy Vs Edward YouTube video, looking at the bureaucratic blockades Jonthan… Read More: Remixing with Popcorn »
Reading Chris Lott’s poetic comment about loss in response to Jim’s assertion that Nothing is Lost …there’s not only nothing wrong with writing one’s poem and sending it down the river on fire, it might be a significantly better way to transcend the technical issues and consider what it means to *be* the idea struck me… Read More: Permanence Lost »
Featured Image “open for business” cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by @cogdog Whether you are outraged, amused, or overwhelmed with ennui by the flurry of Instagram ToS sentiments, I agree with Gina Tripani: Deeply happy users are questioning/debating their favorite tools' Terms of Service, demanding their makers clarify the language. Iteration! — Gina… Read More: Open as in “for business” »