A huge hero of mine has taken the day off from all this electric rectangular bright and chaotic mumbo jumbo. In fact, he is taking the year off. That is an interesting idea. To me anyway. I remember thinking as
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Hello there #openlearning17
Hello! I am participating in the class to find some more awesome “faculty development” ideas. Just the #openlearning17 course itself is a good opportunity I can share with faculty here. I need those. I am an instructional designer these last
When Will We Give Up the Brown Bag?
Well, we likely never will give up on them completely. They do serve a population and a purpose. I think. And we have been asking the same question for years. I am hoping that we move to a yearly plan
Share Everything
The first rule in Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is this: SHARE EVERYTHING Opened16 ends today. I figure for this post I would share what the many people attending the event have shared.
Where is Your Frontier?
Last week the person the Quality Matters Twitter account direct messaged me three questions. They said, “We want to know what YOU think! Help set the stage for our intrepid, seasoned panelists who will engage with a set of questions
Reminders to Myself
I suppose there are a lot of reasons why it has come to this point. Why we still settle for passive classrooms full of students asked to do little more than listen for an hour a week or more. Why
Ways to Use Videos in Your Class
Last week I spoke to some of the Masters of Nursing faculty about the various ways video content can be used in a classroom. As I am new here to UW, I do not have a lot of openly available
I’ll See You at the DML Conference. Somewhere.
What a fantastic gathering of tinkerers, thinkers, crafters, and educational philosophers! The Digital Media and Learning conference in Irvine California kicks off today. But you know what, I am not there… But I feel kinda like I am there. I
“it isn’t a course, just a camp…” And that is Brilliant.
The Program for Online Teaching, or POT as it is affectionately known, has been around since 2005. I think I saw it around 2007 or 2008. Having read some of the writing of Lisa Lane and seeing that it was
What Visual Aids Do You Use in Class?
I have often joked that my favorite week in school was the “using visual aids” week. When you go to college to be a teacher, using visual aids is one of the topics covered. I learned all about using visual
2016 eLearning Symposium
This week I completed my first real training with faculty at the second annual eLearning Symposium here at the University of Washington | Bothell. The focus of the day was on elearning tools and active learning. We tried to do
Soft Canvas Cookies
We had some good success with our Blackboard 57 Second Tips of the Week videos. They were short. Specific. Easy to watch. Useful information. Early on they were very much “click here to do that” but they evolved into some