Week 26. Half way through 2021 already. Somebody slow this ride down a little…
And new cases of COVID are at the lowest level in just over a year. Wow.
⚙️ Work
Natasha, Patrick and I worked on a chapter for a nursing textbook last year (wait. it was in late 2019…), and just got word that it’s going to be available shortly. Chapter 7, Updating Traditional Classrooms, builds on much of what we learned after opening the Taylor Institute. Textbook publishing takes a lonnnnnnng time…
Goldsworthy, S., Kenny, N., Norman, D., Kelly, P. (2020) in Page-Cutura, K., Bradley, P. (editors). Updating traditional classrooms, The Role of the Nurse Educator in Canada. pp.171-198, Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, Ottawa.
2 of our key vendors just partnered up for something about interactive course materials in online courses. Could be interesting - we haven’t done a lot of work with Top Hat’s content authoring tools, but it looks like it’s time to spin up a pilot project. I think that’ll be Pilot Project #4 so far…
We’re waiting for a Neat Board to be delivered. Looks like they’re upgrading it already with some new video processing:
🤔 PhD
Dissercation. Trying to unplug the work brain to give research brain some dedicated time.
📚 Reading
Barrett, L. (June 21, 2021). Rejecting Test Surveillance in Higher Education. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3871423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3871423 (via Nick Heer)
Sedlmair, M., Meyer, M., & Munzner, T. (2012). Design study methodology: Reflections from the trenches and the stacks. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 18(12), 2431-2440.
Meyer, M. and Dykes, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-8096-5763 (2019). Criteria for Rigor in Visualization Design Study. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934539
Syeda, U. H., Murali, P., Roe, L., Berkey, B., & Borkin, M. A. (2020, April). Design Study" Lite" Methodology: Expediting Design Studies and Enabling the Synergy of Visualization Pedagogy and Social Good. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
Lindgren, R., & McDaniel, R. (2012). Transforming online learning through narrative and student agency. Educational Technology & Society, 15(4), 344.
Bharali, R. (2014, June). Enhancing Online Learning Activities for Groups in Flipped Classrooms. In International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (pp. 269-276). Springer, Cham.
Nuninger W. (2017) Integrated Learning Environment for Blended Oriented Course. In: Zaphiris P., Ioannou A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Learning Ecosystems. LCT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_13
Hayes A. (2017) Using Mental Models to Design for Learning: Lessons from Game Development. In: Zaphiris P., Ioannou A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Learning Ecosystems. LCT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_34
Loos L.A., Crosby M.E. (2017) Gamification Methods in Higher Education. In: Zaphiris P., Ioannou A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Learning Ecosystems. LCT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_37
Quesada Mora V.A., Gallego-Durán F.J., Molina-Carmona R., Llorens-Largo F. (2017) Subliminal Learning. What Do Games Teach Us?. In: Zaphiris P., Ioannou A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Learning Ecosystems. LCT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_38
Hall, K. W., Bradley, A. J., Hinrichs, U., Huron, S., Wood, J., Collins, C., & Carpendale, S. (2019). Design by immersion: A transdisciplinary approach to problem-driven visualizations. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 26(1), 109-118.
🧺 Other
I went for an awesome solo mountain ride in Banff National Park between Banff and Castle, on highway 1A.
Looks like I’ll have to ride it again, but all the way to Lake Louise…
And I headed out to try climbing the hills on Lochend and Bearspaw. I made it.
