eLearning Discovery Working Group preliminary report
My big summer project this year was to act as the chair of a newly formed “eLearning Discovery Working Group“, with the mandate to begin to identify what eLearning means at The University of Calgary....
View ArticleMotion capture
I bumped into a computer science prof who was lugging a cart to get coffee. On the cart was a big homebrew remote controlled car, with a Microsoft Kinnect sensor strapped to it. Turns out, they use it...
View ArticleBen Cowie on introducing first-year geoscience students to the primary...
What a fantastic series of posts by Dr. Ben Cowie, a geology prof here at the UofC. He worked with his first-year undergrads, on going to primary research lit, rather than just settling for teh...
View ArticleUCalgary eLearning Discovery Working Group report on LMS engagement
What a consultant-ish title. Anyway. The working group I’ve been chairing since last summer (it even has its own tag here on my blog) has been doing a bunch of stuff (i.e., “engagements”) to talk to...
View ArticleGeorge Siemens’ open letter to Canadian universities
From George’s great open letter: I propose that the top 10 Canadian universities convene a meeting to plan a MOOC response that helps us to build our competence in this space. We already have...
View Articledebugging the text editor in sharepoint
tl dr; run IE in 32-bit mode. Seriously. I know. That’s what I said, too. I’ve been using Sharepoint 2007[1][2] with my group, to share information about groups and projects on campus. It’s been...
View ArticleMichael Geist – Why the Supreme Court’s Copyright Decisions Eviscerate Access...
The cumulative effect is clear: schools can rely more heavily on fair dealing for the copying that takes place on campus and in the classroom. This includes copies made by teachers for students for...
View ArticleCanadian Learning Commons conference session on DS106
blurb about the conference via @ppival: On May 7-9, 2012 the University of Calgary hosted the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference. The theme of the conference was New Media, New Fluencies and Life...
View ArticleUniversity of Calgary opts out of Access Copyright
The Provost announced today: The University of Calgary has announced that they will not enter into an Access Copyright model licence but instead will manage copyright compliance and payments in-house....
View ArticleUofC Kickoff 2012
Today was the home opener for the UCalgary Dinos men’s football team. They slaughtered the UofA Golden Bears[1] . But, lots of campus pride on display. We got to the stadium too late – all of the...
View ArticleUofC LMS RFP engagement report
So, this project has taken up the vast majority of my Day Job for the last year or so. We’re finally approaching the point where a decision can be made on which LMS we’ll be using. I just published our...
View ArticleUofC Collaborating for Learning Conference 2013
The Teaching & Learning Centre at the University of Calgary is putting on a conference on May 15-16 2013, intended to bring together people who are interested in collaboration for learning (and...
View ArticleMay is Education Innovation Month in Calgary
Apparently. May 1-3: EdInnovation May 8-10: Innovators, Designers & Researchers: Leading a New Knowledge Network Conference 2013 May 15-16: Collaborating for Learning Wow. Wonder if I’ll be able to...
View Articleon automated “anti-plagiarism” tools
I was asked this morning for my take on Turnitin and other anti-plagiarism tools. Here’s the response I sent[1] – may as well share with the rest of the class… The usual disclaimer likely applies: I...
View Articlepresentation on visualizing online discourse
I gave a presentation at the University of Calgary’s Collaboration for Learning conference today, on some of the visualizations I built as part of my thesis research. I made a point of avoiding talking...
View Articleon migrating to desire2learn
So, we’re moving to Desire2Learn. Lots of things happening to get us there. Everything is being driven by a timeline leading to the decommissioning of our old LMS on May 31, 2014. Which means, when...
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