on digital posters at an academic conference

 Posted on May 11, 2016  |  7 minutes  |  1400 words

Poster sessions are an important part of any academic conference - providing a way for researchers (including both faculty and students) to share their research in a format that supports describing methods, discussion, and results as well as fostering discussion about the project. Normally, these posters are printed on large format printers, carefully rolled into tubes for travel, and hung from poster boards or walls in a conference venue. It works, but requires the posters to be completed days (or weeks) ahead of time to allow for layout and printing (and any revisions to fix typos or omissions). [Read More]
conference  connections  taylor institute  ticonf2016 

UCalgary ePortfolio platform

 Posted on November 6, 2015  |  6 minutes  |  1144 words

We have been doing a lot of work on ePortfolios within the Educational Development Unit. The most visible result of that work is the EDU's in-development department ePortfolio. As we talked about what we wanted to do in order to document the activities of the department, and to connect these activities to our strategies and priorities, it became clear that an ePortfolio was the best way to do that. And it also became clear that we needed more flexibility than was possible in the D2L ePortfolio tool. [Read More]
eportfolios  ucalgary  connections 

Dee Fink's keynote at #TICONF2015

 Posted on May 20, 2015  |  1 minutes  |  71 words

Dee Fink, giving the opening keynote presentation at the 2015 University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching. The theme of the 2015 conference is Design for Learning: Fostering Deep Learning, Engagement and Critical Thinking.

We hadn't planned to record the keynote, but Dee asked us if we would, so we set something up that morning. The video is usable, but we'll be producing higher quality recordings for future events…

video  ucalgary  connections  dee fink 

relaunching elearn.ucalgary.ca

 Posted on May 1, 2015  |  2 minutes  |  286 words

This has been a project within the Technology Integration Group for the last several months - redesigning the elearn.ucalgary.ca support website so that it can be more useful to instructors and students who are integrating technology into their teaching and learning. The previous site was nearly a decade old, and had been designed by accretion - full of links, documents, links to documents, etc… but difficult to actually find things that are important. [Read More]
elearning  ucalgary  connections  project 

on learning spaces and technologies

 Posted on February 27, 2015  |  5 minutes  |  862 words

As an institution, we design learning spaces and select learning technologies, and implement them in ways to make them available to enable and enhance student learning. But, the design decisions made in the development, selection, and implementation of these resources shape what is perceived to be possible. The resources may not be technically restrictive to specific usage patterns and pedagogies, but through design decisions there are paths of least resistance that will naturally be found. [Read More]
connections  learning technologies  learning spaces 

How do YOU connect online?

 Posted on November 1, 2009  |  1 minutes  |  114 words

I'm taking a graduate level course on Technology & Society, and for my Big Term Assignment, I've decided to try something a little non-traditional. Taking a page out of Alan Levine's great playbook, I'd like to ask people to respond to a simple question: How do YOU connect online? More info is available over on the project website - but the short version is that I need people to respond to the question, however they interpret it, in whatever format they're comfortable responding. [Read More]
connections  project  gder 

Question about the nature of connections

 Posted on October 19, 2009  |  1 minutes  |  102 words

I just posed this question on Twitter, but thought I'd try posting it here as well, in case there are different people reading each stream… How is the nature of connection between people online different from "traditional" offline connections? How, really, do they differ? I'm hoping to tease out some real, perceived, and possibly false differences between internet connections and traditional connections between people, for a project as part of the Technology & Society course I'm taking. [Read More]
offline  connections  online  question