moving the house
With the ‘end-that-isn’t-an-end’ of this YouShow gig, I’ll be moving my blogging over to my main site at merelearning.ca. Hope to see you there. Big thanks to Alan and Brian for their work!
critiquing your thinking
I attended a conference last weekend and was particularly interested in the breakout session on critical thinking by Dr. Matthew Etherington, who recounted his experience at a recent education conference where he attended a panel discussion on critical thinking. One of the pronouncements made by one of the panelists (a longtime teacher educator) was that […]
learning design in wordpress
Part of the application of my learning during YouShow has been designing a connected professional development course for our OLFMs in Open Learning. I have taken a great deal of what I’ve learned here about RSS and general WordPressing and applied that knowledge to the course and I am grateful for Alan’s and Brian’s openness […]
Sample Learning Activities Portfolio Post
Source I learned of this activity from Colin’s post. Description A student posted her introduction as a voice-over PowerPoint. My Thoughts It was great to hear her voice and see images. I want to think about connecting with my students early in the course in a similarly engaging way. I also like the way that […]
keeping it real
Today was my annual lesson in authenticity. I’ve spent since November 7 riding my rollers a couple times a week to try to keep my legs about me. creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by CulturalVertigo It is actually a little less fun than it looks, but it is better than riding […]
going live
I’ve been slowly moving the structure that I’ve started here over to my main site at merelearning.ca. It has been good to have this spot to test things out, work out some theme kinks and quirks and just figure out how this thing can all work together. I have a couple of presentations coming up […]
exploring peterson creek v.2
With Monday being Family Day here in BC, the long weekend was welcome, and the weather was beautiful. My last post was a bit of a highlight reel of pics from my jaunt to Peterson Creek Park on Sunday afternoon with two of my kids. It was a good time, but we turned back short […]
exploring petersen creek
Took a little photo safari today with my youngest son and only daughter. Son #1 decided that the couch was preferable to enjoying the spring weather…oh well, maybe tomorrow. Anyways, the purpose of our little adventure was to get up into Petersen Creek Park in Kamloops and let Selah experiment with longer exposure photography. Surprisingly, […]
stretching the mind
I have a bit of a weird relationship with the arts. I appreciate the beauty of a wide variety of music, architecture, literature and such. I married a woman with a degree in music whose major instrument throughout her degree was voice, but who is also an accomplished pianist and can play a guitar, a […]
breakdowning the photo safari
My previous post, the results of the photo safari, was a bit of a parallax-gasm, no? If you are wondering, parallax is that funky effect that has the background and foreground of a post moving at different speeds. It creates a nice illusion of depth on the page and can be done really well. I’m […]