Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Without integrity, nothing works. I view integrity not as something that is either good or bad, right or wrong, but rather as a state of being whole and complete that results in increased levels of workability. Collaborating with the members of my course design team is a complex dance. Everyone is asked to give her … Continue reading Integrity creates workabilty →
I’d be delighted to welcome you to my workshop at Thompson Rivers University’s Teaching Practices Colloquium on Monday, February 16, 2015.
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 […]
“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
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Being an educator is my gift to the world. My father was a school principal for many years and my mother was a teacher for a bit. My dad… Continue Reading →
I awoke about half an hour ago with the realisation that it has been many days since the learning coach recorded any thoughts about what is happening in the world of coaching students to become better writers and to ‘find their voice’ in the social media world(s). Somehow the day-to-day grind of class prep, advising, grading, and the other minutiae of teaching crowd out the discipline of writing for me. I don’t want it to happen, but it is insidious and merciless against my forming a habit of writing.
So here I am in the middle of the night to get some writing done before I go back to sleep. Tomorrow I hope to inspire students to finish their courses well, to establish themselves in the social media world(s), and in some way, to make a difference that they are alive today. There are the easy ones, those who already ‘get it’ regarding social activism before I even begin to talk through the opportunities available in our world. There are never quite enough of them, but they brighten up my day and put a spring into my step. But how will I reach those who are still more interested in what the world offers in terms of their own pleasure and entertainment? Can I entertain them enough to pull them into more serious matters, considerations, and reflections?
That’s all I can contribute for the present. I hope that I will come back daily, despite the end-of-term pressures that are mounting and despite the natural tendency I have to take in rather than give back. Time will tell.