Open Web Presentation for BC Campus
This presentation was almost a month ago, and is pretty much (at least for now) the cap of my TRU Fellowship, but we just got ahold of the video. Brian Lamb and I were invited to do a live streamed […]
SPLOT
Smallest Possible Learning Open Tools (see splot.ca)
SPLOT By The Numbers
Five. That’s it. Five SPLOTs (Smalles? Possible? Learning? Open? Tools?) created during my TRU Fellowship. But hear me out- it’s not about the tools. Repeat again… “It’s not about the tools” On the heels of the fellowship Brian Lamb and […]
TRU Writer as Platform for Web Journals
The SPLOT Tool I am most proud of is the TRU Writer– there is more to write later about how it represents the SPLOT idea. We made it first as an experiment in creating a rich publishing platform that people […]
Trying Visual Status Indicators for TRU Writer
It’s exciting to see some applications of the SPLOT TRU Writer tool. TRU English prof Ken Simpson has two sections of his courses using instances made for each class: We are set to let another group of computer science students […]
Ideas Begatting Ideas
Do you remember in the Old Testament all that begat action? And Arphaxad begat Shelah; which himself engendered Eber. (And Arphaxad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.) Really, you remember? You were there? In terms of ideas or bits of […]
Share Images By Email to SPLOT Collector
The SPLOT Image Collector has found resonance as a useful tool to build shared image collections. I’ve modified the admin options so a site owner can decided which of the fields they want on the form (and even designate them […]
You Show Daily, The Grid View
Just noting some small details to add to the You Show Daily site, where we are trying a series of daily creative challenges related to the purposes of the open seminar. Now a nice grid showing all of the responses […]
Office Calls… and a Vague, Half Thought Out SPLOT Idea
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 SPLOT of a Presentation at TRU Teaching Practices Colloquium 2015
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 […]
Using TRU Writer for a Portfolio for Published Work
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 […]
Interior Decorating Skills
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 […]
Collecting Sounds for You Show Unit 4
For the first part of Unit 4 of the You Show we ask people to collect sounds they might use for a Sound Effect Story or to create a composition from one sound. We will use these next week to […]