Pressbooks sustainability question came in via Stephen’s Web ~ OLDaily . Original Post. If you were a Pressbooks.com user you are likely aware now that the service is changing over to Pressbooks.pub. That is not the only news that came with the announcement. The product is moving towards something more akin to what I’ve been…
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2022 Top Tools for Learning
Via Stephen Downes It is time again for my top 10 list of learning tools for Jane Hart’s Annual Top Tools for Learning roundup. Submit your top tools by August 25th I see many friends and colleagues across Canada blogging their responses to this call. You can find Stephen’s list, D’Arcy Norman’s list, and Colin…
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…
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…
That One Thing – Judo
It’s not something you are passionate about, it’s a thing you take on with a regular practice. Alan Levine wrote a post about That One Thing as part of a 6x6x5 challenge, and the timing is kind of coincidental. You see, just a couple of weeks ago I was visiting with some friends, and one…
New H5P Content Type – Information Wall
Earlier today, Oliver Tacke posted a new content type he developed for a special project. You won’t find this type in the H5P content hub, but as Oliver says, As usual, if you want to use the content type and if are allowed to install H5P libraries, you can simply download this demo content via…
Alternative delivery methods for distance education: a history
In case my comment on Tony’s blog gets eaten I thought I would repost here what I left as a comment there. While the original post provides some interesting examples of distance education delivery they are mostly examples from our southern neighbours. For a Canadian example we can look to the University of Saskatchewans Better Farming…
Life as an ID Before and After H5P
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So, I didn’t know you could add animated GIFs to H5P’s juxtapose until today. I’m not sure how I overlooked this, but it really opens up some new possibilities.
Breathing New Life Into an Old Machine
Nope not me. Although maybe that could be a post for another time. I am blogging to you today from my freshly refurbished Mac Mini, 2012! Apparently this was the last Mac Mini that could easily have its internal parts swapped out, and I was lucky enough to bump into a tutorial that pitched the…
25 Years of Ed Tech – Blogs
This week I was able to catch up a bit on some podcasts I subscribe to. One of the casts I’ve been enjoying lately is 25 Years of Ed Tech, a serialized version of Martin Weller’s book by the same title. Now audio books are plenty good by themselves, but this particular podcast has an…
Brutalist Worksheets
Checking out the Oldaily I came across Brutalist Worksheets. Here, Downes refers to a piece by Will Gourley by the same name, and adds “Now this isn’t a new trend, as evidenced by his references to worksheets created by the vertical foot on the photpocopier, but anyone taking courses online will immediately make the conceptual…
Looking Back at The Year That Shall Not Be Named
This my second only time to blog about a year in review, great timing. But recently I watched a video from a leader at our institution and in that video what caught my attention was not necessarily the praise staff and faculty got (which they really deserve), but they mentioned a bunch of these other…