A busy week. I gave a workshop on the range of Online Learning materials one could use in a course as part of U of T’s Office of Teaching Advancement series on Monday, two invited talks at ECOO on Thursday…
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Back to blogging
I seem to not be a continuous blogger, although I am about to start a blog with the KMDI folks http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/ hopefully by the end of October. I was going to start tracking resources and ideas for a series of…
CASCON conference, October, 07
I am spending the day today at the CASCON conference hosted by IBM (https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/workshopsignup/displayWorkshop?PublicView=true&Slot=MONFULLDAY&Num=4 presenting and participating in a session on Social Computing. Joan Touzet and I presented in the morning session as did Jim Slotta from CTL at OISE.…
The blogging journey
In an effort to find an ever better way to integrate different technologies we are trying a new weblog and wiki/cms environment this year. So I am migrating my earlier weblog from this location: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/MT/journal/cbrett/ to our new home here…
Outstanding Paper Award
The paper, Finding the Individual in Collaborative Online Learning Environments by Wendy Freeman and Clare Brett is the first recipient of the TACTL (Technology as an agent of change in teaching and learning) SIG AWARD, to be presented at AERA…
Research group and activities for the year
Well, it has taken me a little while to get around to this, but the tenure file is in and now back to all the other things that need to be done. By my calculations our active research group is…
Survey on bloggers
Here is an interesting recent survey summary of who is blogging and what they are doing thereDownload file It is a general public survey, so not about education specifically but I was interested to se more than 50% actually tried…
Video from 1608
Here is week 4’s movie–saved as a .mov as I am still working out compression to fit on the blog site and was saving it to quicktime at the time, but it should download fine. However, the quality may be…
To blog or not to blog
I am always interested in how strongly people react to their online experiences in this course. I think using blogs is a way of writing and interacting with resources that one has to grow into in a way–I have certainly…
More graduations!
Another graduation to report. Rosemary Waterston successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. Her thesis title is: Interaction in Online Interprofessional Education Case Discussions, and her (large) committee included Lawrence Spero who joined us via videoconferencing from his island home in BC…