Category Archives: Teaching & Learning Online

BCCAT JAM 2013 Session

The Province of British Columbia has a robust (world class) system for credit articulation and transfer, as one can explore through the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) website  and the companion site, BC Transfer Guide.  Behind the scenes in … Continue reading

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Flickr Galleries 2

OK!  Now I am excited.  I circled back to the Flickr Galleries feature I mentioned earlier, and noticed that they have now added (and I think this is new, but I could have just missed it) the ability to explain … Continue reading

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Flickr Galleries

Flickr has added a cool new feature to its repetoire – galleries http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/14/galleries-unleash-your-inner-curator/ This feature allows one to create a collection/set of other people’s photos I can see some interesting uses for this – including a “webquest” of sorts for … Continue reading

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Muddling about in the PLE space

In the ever-expanding search for ways to visualize the “new” PLE environment, I ran across Scott Wilson’s latest visual (posted back in Nov 2007). I have to noodle on this a lot more, but it sure points out the “murky … Continue reading

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Geo Lesson Tip?

As I perused my bloglines this morning, as usual, I look at the earthquakes feed first (the USGS makes a variety of feeds available at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/. As usual, there are names of places I have never seen before. I never … Continue reading

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Why use a VPN

One of the points we covered in the podcast interview with Sally Taylor was the importance of a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection. I’m not sure, but I suspect that the importance of this type of connection is not well … Continue reading

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Podcast Interview with Librarian

I have likely mentioned before that I teach an online course each year – EOSC 311 – The Earth and its Resources. The course is designed for students who are not majoring in science. I focus on geological processes that … Continue reading

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BC 2007 Innovation Awards in Educational Technology

Thought I would pass this along… a good opportunity to have good work recognized! CALL FOR NOMINATIONS BC 2007 INNOVATION AWARDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY The 2007 Innovation Awards in Educational Technology honour and recognize BC public post-secondary individuals who test, … Continue reading

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e-Assessment Lit Review

I saw this literature review on e-assessment pointed to by Jeremy Williams (The Authentic Assessment Website), and thought I’d better mark this one down. I love Jeremy’s description; he calls it “… little UK-centric, but a jolly good read all … Continue reading

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Connections: Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Design

My colleagues here in DE have started up a new weblog called “Connections: Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Design”. http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/connections/. The focus of the weblog is to draw connections between teaching, learning and instructional design. They’ve collected some very nice resources … Continue reading

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