It’s been mad hot this last few weeks and the idea of being in a hot kitchen cooking or even sitting eating hot food might not be so appealing, but then again not everyone gets excited at the idea of salad for lunch so we thought we’d share one of our …
Category: 23 Things Syndicated
Thing 23: Reflection
It’s hard to believe this is the final post in this series! For Thing 23, I will reflect on my previous posts and what I have learned. It has been 1244 days since I started this journey–my first post went up on 20 February 2019. Favourite pArts and Surprises I most enjoyed the parts of… Read more Thing 23: Reflection
The big pepper growing experiment: will I change how I do things?
This year we’ve had two experiments going in the garden, the first one being the tomatoes that are growing outdoors and the second the peppers in the greenhouse. The pepper experiment is actually a bit more complicated and has a few variables so if you…
Quick and easy recipe: Garden Salad Pasta
This week we shared a quick video on Instagram of something we call garden salad pasta. It’s basically a really quick dinner involving homegrown food like tomatoes, basil and garlic. It’s so easy that you don’t even need to measure an…
Thing 22: Fun and Play
The penultimate Thing focuses on having fun in digital spaces and suggests playing around with apps like Just a Line, an app which allowed users to create and share video animations of simple drawings; Dubsmash, a lip-synching app, or Snapchat, a messaging app that focuses on sharing pictures or short videos which are promptly deleted… Read more Thing 22: Fun and Play
Winds of Change in EdTech
I tagged this with Making Sense of Open Education although this post is not part of that course. As I recall, the course must have been after January 2017 because I had changed roles from educational development at the University of Alberta and joined the development team at the Distance Education Unit at USask. One of…
Seeds I’m sowing in July
There will be lots of sowing going on over the next month, so I’m starting today with some of my salad crops and of course, MORE DWARF GREEN BEANS. I’m determined to get some beans. If you don’t know the bean story, let me explain. I showed…
Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
Gamification is a part of life and learning online. Adding elements of game-playing, such as earning rewards, competing with others, tracking progress, and exploring stories, to non-game situations, can make education more engaging and interactive. Thing 21 asks us to explore the work of online educational games, by choosing two from a list and interacting… Read more Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
How are Interactive Maps Used in E-Learning Design? #314
I have a back catalogue of small instructional design challenges and charrettes that I’ve been meaning to build into something bigger one day. That is obviously taking too long, so here’s a new idea. The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community runs a weekly eLearning Challenge. I’ve mentioned before that often different IDs in different contexts will use…
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
It can be easy to forget how new professional social networking is. Consider the students who enter university at eighteen in the autumn of 2022. They were born in the year Facebook was launched! Most young people, in other words, have never experienced a world without the social internet. Most researchers, on other hand, are… Read more Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
Getting into the online learning industry
Both Tony Bates, and Stephen Downes have commented on the article, Getting into the online learning industry so I thought why not throw in my 2-cents. If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that I often share out instructional design (and sometimes ID adjacent) job postings. While I focus primarily on higher…
Improving a Digital Experience
How to do a UX accessibility evaluation Which of the four principles (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust) should the designer focus most effort on? This kind of depends on the context the designer finds themselves in. Do they also build the digital product or do they work with a developer? If the latter, how do the…