Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Below is a prototype for a drawing activity and presentation I have been experimenting with. It came about during an “instructional skills workshop” in which we are asked to prepare and deliver a 10 min. mini lesson. This activity is designed to get participants to see the world in a new way using a classic drawing technique … Continue reading Learning to see – A drawing activity
The typical scenario for professional development is to invite people to come to your training room, lab, office, building, city. I decided to try something different (I refuse to say “flip”) for the Online Open You Show seminar at TRU. […]
We started a writing group today on campus. There are four of us. Three of us are meeting today. We decided:
My writing process is so messy. I don’t know if I am built for a writing group. I am hoping the social presure will keep me writing every day.
Yesterday Brian Lamb and I presented the SPLOT projects at TRU’s Teaching Practices Colloquium 2015. It was billed as: All too often, educators wanting to use online environments are given […]
If you have been on the web more than (fill in the blank with a short amount of time) you know the feeling when you click and find yourself greeted […]
Weavly is another online video and audio remixing tool. http://weavly.com/ Check out my remix of songs about writing: http://weavly.com/watch/pLH9TYVC83d
Last week, I instagrammed a picture of moss that I walk past each day. I like this image and others did as well, so I thought I would share the original capture. One thing that strikes me with images of this kind is a permaculture expression I learned last summer, “Everything wants to become forest“. As humans … Continue reading Moss vs. Brick.
AudioPaint takes your digital image and converts it into sound. Strange? Yep. http://audiopaint.software.informer.com/
Ward Elementary School in North Carolina filled a classroom with donated stationary bikes and invited students to read and pedal. Result: “Students who spent more time in the Read and Ride program achieved 83% proficiency in reading while students who spent the least amount of time in the program had significantly lower scores, with only … Continue reading Sitting is the new smoking →
I am not claiming these for my portfolio, but demonstrating here at embedding of the SPLOT Comparator tool. You can compare the before / after results below, and try to […]