I recently co-presented a webinar session for eCampus Ontario, along with Jessica O’Reilly and Laura Killam from Cambrian College. This session, Open Media: Using audio and video as part of open teaching practice is worth a peek when you have some time. This session provides tips, links, and research resources to convince you to try
I’m talking to my students THROUGH, not TO, my screen. Read my previous post [9×1=Outside In = Inside Out] to see where this comes from since I’m borrowing this idea from others. It’s important for me to see the students on the other side of the screen, even when I teach the class in a
My first reflection for the 9x9x25 blogging challenge is a reflection of ‘what just happened in class this week’. It’s a Friday thing to do! Part of my usual routine is to reflect back over the classes I’ve taught this week, consider the highlights and those moments that may not have gone so well. When
I’m coming back to this blog site since there’s a new purpose to participate and extend my thinking! I’m dusting off this ‘extending’ blog site since I’ve got some more connecting and thinking to do. It’s time to get plugged in, so here I go. I’ve been tagged into the eCampus Ontario Extend’s 9X9X25 blogging
Taking a deeper dive into some of the possible extending activities was not only fun, but challenging and refreshing. Having a pick from any one of the list was like being a kid in a candy shop. Here’s my first deep dive: This first deep dive into the Experimenter Module was posted on the Five
As an introduction to a course and to each other, students can share a selfie story of a different kind. They can be given options to sharing – what to share, where to share, and how to share. These can be decided based on factors the instructor and/or course designer may know about the students,
As part of the eCampus Ontario – Extend Modules, there is a commitment to open, accessible, evidence of learning. In order to verify the learning that has occurred, and receive a digital badge as validation, I have collected all the elements of the curation module here into one location. This is my performance moment –
This is a reflection on the questions asked in the Scholar module of Ontario Extend. I’ll take them one at a time and craft a separate entry for each one. Here are the big questions. So what’s the answer? Just like in good teaching, the answer lies in the struggle. My teaching practice is ever
This is a response for the Ontario Extend Collaborator module to explore WHY we should collaborate. This has a bit of a story to it, with those characters sitting at the table. We are never really ever at the same table at any time. This collaboration happens over several months and the conversations started at
This is a response for the Ontario Extend module Teacher for Learning, specifically the Metacognition section which looks at metaphor as a culminating task for learning. I’m a big fan of metaphors. I use them to reframe my thinking all the time. Metaphorically speaking, my use of metaphor is like a puzzle. I pick each
