Mind and Concept Mapping Tools for Flipping the Classroom

Flipping your classroom?  Consider mind and concept mapping.  Instead of your students turning to their neighbors to discuss, have them turn to their neighbors to brainstorm and design.  Simple Post It notes work.  Google Drawing works for electronic maps and infographics.  For online courses, here is an article that lists “24 Essential Mind Mapping and […]

Mind and Concept Mapping Tools for Flipping the Classroom

Flipping your classroom?  Consider mind and concept mapping.  Instead of your students turning to their neighbors to discuss, have them turn to their neighbors to brainstorm and design.  Simple Post It notes work.  Google Drawing works for electronic maps and infographics.  For online courses, here is an article that lists “24 Essential Mind Mapping and […]

Learning to fail

Last month I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual Failure Wake held by SFU’s “social innovation lab” known as Radius. I’ve become increasingly aware of  developments there through several projects I’ve worked on with some of the faculty at Beedie School of Business including visual summaries and animations.  I’ve been impressed by their “RADIcal ideas … Continue reading Learning to fail

Whiteboard animation for International Development

A little bit about a recently completed whiteboard animation project using Videoscribe. I recently wrapped production of a new whiteboard animation with collaborator, and illustrator extraordinaire Sarah Menard. The project we took on was a promotional piece for an academic work by prof. Martin Scott, working with David Girling from The School of International Development at UEA. Sarah and I are … Continue reading Whiteboard animation for International Development

#ocTEL Week 1 recap

My goals for this week of the #ocTEL course were to watch the weekly webinar and complete one of the activities. Webinar notes Presenters: Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, University of Bath & James Little, University of Leeds Learning design systematic way of developing and describing experiences includes a description of the learners, the environment, and the tools they use […]

#ocTEL Week 1 recap

My goals for this week of the #ocTEL course were to watch the weekly webinar and complete one of the activities. Webinar notes Presenters: Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, University of Bath & James Little, University of Leeds Learning design systematic way of developing and describing experiences includes a description of the learners, the environment, and the tools they use […]