Petty Joys: A Series | Part Two: If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It

One of my grand joys has been using a fountain pen.  When we were kids my parents let us fill our own ink cartridges with syringe and a bottle of Shaeffer peacock blut “Quink”.  I never had a ‘stick’ pen until I went to junior high school and I sharpened my pencils mostly with a pen knife … Continue reading Petty Joys: A Series | Part Two: If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It

Experiencing Experiential Learning

“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”     Albert Einstein   Together with my colleagues, Kelly Warnock and Ken Monroe, I presented an interactive, hands-on workshop on Experiential Learning for TRU’s students, staff and faculty. Watch it here: Part1: http://livestre.am/52AIF Part 2: http://livestre.am/52AIP  

Time to Play

In the last You Show session the importance of dedicating time to ‘play’ with the technology was emphasized. Over the last week, I have been exploring Mahara as a tool for creating an e-portfolio. It is amazing how little of my time actually translates into something that is recorded. What I realized though, is that even […]