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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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

James Skidmore over at uWaterloo is currently teaching a graduate course on online teaching and learning, and is creating 60 blog posts for the 60 days of the class. I think this is going to become a fantastic collection. Each post is short and snappy, focusing on a single topic which is discussed often in…

Two conversation trends I’ve noticed this week in my RSS feeds and on Twitter are new weird names for online/blended learning (some are truly horrifying), and the other has been conversations around discussions, particularly discussion forums in online learning. As many classrooms in higher education are still virtual, this seems appropriate. Given that 50% of…