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It Came From Canada? Best Conference Swag over 14 Years
Alan Levine on Good swag? In the bag? I’m just back from Toronto where I was part of an eCampus Ontario team doing workshops for a new project aimed at capacity building among institutions in Northern Ontario (I still insist geographically it’s central, but I will stop) (soon). Ontario Extend is on the […]
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Who is NurseKillam?
NurseKillam on Over the past few months I have been considering re-branding my YouTube channel to more clearly represent the audience it serves. Part of that process is figuring out who NurseKillam has evolved into. Humble Beginnings The name NurseKillam took me about a minute to come up with. In 2010 I […]
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Say What? Open Textbooks??
NurseKillam on I just finished an awesome three days of being surrounded by like-minded professionals. It was so refreshing and I learned so much about the possibilities for technology and open education. Actually, this blog is thanks to my new friends from the extend institute. My Perspective As you may or may […]
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“Simultaneously Enchanted and Repelled by the Inexhaustible Variety of” Tools
Alice Ridout on When Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is trying to navigate the moral ambiguities of the wealthy Buchanans he finds himself “within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.” I feel similarly about the range of tools that we have been exposed to during this week’s Ontario Extend Summer […]
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How would you feel if someone threw you a surprise birthday party?
@kbrenn83 on Elated. Mortified. In shock. Overjoyed. When a question starts with, “how would you feel if…” it’s usually pretty easy to get into the mindset that makes up the remainder of that question. I do it with my toddler all the time: “My love, how would you feel if someone put […]
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Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
Kimberley on Associate Dean Aaron Klooster and Professors Tony Douglass and Kimberley Norman, representatives of Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology visited Northern Ireland in May 2017. While the purpose of the trip was to visit our partner college, Southwest College in Omagh, Northern Ireland, we were fortunate to have the […]
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Credability = PhD?
NurseKillam on Scholarship is an important part of professional development. Lately I have been grappling with an inner desire to get a PhD that is driven by some unknown thing. In this post I am going to talk about that desire and speculate on why I feel like I need to do […]
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Yet another Experiment
Melrad on Not sure how successful this one was!! Let me know what you think!
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Technophobia
PD on I started the workshop with Ontario Extend with no idea what to expect. I will be teaching an online course, having had no training or experience whatsoever in online teaching. I have a fair bit of trepidation around that and was hoping for information on how to do it. That hope was […]
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Melrad….the Experimenter!!
Melrad on One of the attributes required for working towards developing technology enabled and on line teaching is being an Experimenter! This is my attempt to use this blog in such way to see how well I was listening to Alan!! One of the things I have taken away from this week […]