The typical scenario for professional development is to invite people to come to your training room, lab, office, building, city. I decided to try something different (I refuse to say “flip”) for the Online Open You Show seminar at TRU. […]
A presentation for TRU’s Teaching Practices Colloquium 2015 Visual media is a key component of teaching, presenting, making your ideas understood. When you search online for an image of specific thing, literal keyword searches usually work well. For example if […]
Yesterday Brian Lamb and I presented the SPLOT projects at TRU’s Teaching Practices Colloquium 2015. It was billed as: All too often, educators wanting to use online environments are given two stark choices. They might stay within the confines of […]
If you have been on the web more than (fill in the blank with a short amount of time) you know the feeling when you click and find yourself greeted by a 404 Not Found message. It’s a standard response […]
In a bit of a self test, I am using the TRU Writer SPLOT tool to build a collection of papers I have published: This is a little different from the other versions we have set up (in addition to […]
I am not claiming these for my portfolio, but demonstrating here at embedding of the SPLOT Comparator tool. You can compare the before / after results below, and try to identify everything that changes (like a new dish towel!) The […]
Today’s Daily challenge was “Hum your first musical memory” — I wrote it and recycled from one we did before as a DS106 Daily Create. Part of my philosophy of doing Daily challenges is that the real creativity is in […]
Wow, I thought I had written this up somewhere, but because Ken asked, and he is doing cool stuff with his Connected Course… Can anyone share the code for the Magic Box #CCourses http://t.co/lv3QFzS45M @cogdog @mburtis @timmmmyboy ? — Ken […]
This may not be eminently useful, but illustrates how I scratch my curiosity itch with a bit of serendipity. And How I learn more from trying stuff than just retweeting it. Today I was looking for some tutorial resources for […]
Here I do perhaps my favorite d1s106 audio assignment. We made it part of The You Show Unit 4 to give people an appreciation of and an experience creating sounds for a movie. What most people (including me) do nto […]
This bit of metal sculpture sits atop a bicycle shelter on the TRU campus. I’ve noticed it numerous times since I arrived here three months ago. It has a stylish shape. On this clear vivid sky day, in mid afternoon, […]
This bot of metal sculpture sits atop a bicycle shelter on the campus of Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, British Columbia. I’ve noticed in numerous times since I arrived here three months ago. It has a stylish shape. On this clear day, in mid afternoon, the light was super contrasty strong. I thought that it […]