Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
It’s exciting to see some applications of the SPLOT TRU Writer tool. TRU English prof Ken Simpson has two sections of his courses using instances made for each class: We are set to let another group of computer science students […]
Do you remember in the Old Testament all that begat action? And Arphaxad begat Shelah; which himself engendered Eber. (And Arphaxad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.) Really, you remember? You were there? In terms of ideas or bits of […]
Last year through the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation and in collaboration with School District #73, I was part of the organizing committee for the first ever Tedx:Youth@Kamloops event. Through organizing and leading committee meetings, documenting meeting plans and minutes, assisting in the development of student presentations, creating a grading rubric and action list, […]
I’ve been doing a daily habit of taking and posting photos to my flickr account since 2008 (where I post one selected to represent the best each day), and maintained the habit in my time at TRU. It’s easy when […]
A friend of mine posted to Facebook today that he was having trouble with a WordPress install. WordPress refused to serve any post with a comment on it, preferring to issue an Error 500 instead. I’ve been mucking about with WordPress for, like, 7 whole months now, so of course I volunteered to take a … Continue reading You’ve got a friend in me →
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 […]
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 […]
The You Show is featured in TRU Learning, the newsletter of the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation. It’s available as a downloadable PDF An intrepid cohort of the TRU community is in the midst of… something. It is […]
The SPLOT Image Collector has found resonance as a useful tool to build shared image collections. I’ve modified the admin options so a site owner can decided which of the fields they want on the form (and even designate them […]
Heading into a latter (not last, not ending, not over) phase of the You Show, in unit 5 we offer/ask participants to consider how they move a site that looks pretty bloggy into something that might be outwardly facing more […]