Profile Picture for NurseKillam

NurseKillam

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Open-Assessment: It’s Just Good Pedagogy #OER a reflection on OE Fellows Webinar 5: Introduction to Open Educational Practice #OEP from @eCampusOntario

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

As I reflect on the past term one of the big changes for me was how consciously open and flexible the course was in many ways. The course website was open and students had the choice of how they wanted to meet the learning outcomes. Not only were they involved in defining what the project would be they could choose how they shared their work. Rubrics in the course were also co-created. They defined how they wanted to participate, which ended up […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Video Feedback: Time-Saver or Time-Waster?

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

This post has been de-prioritised for about a month now as. I was about to just scrap the idea since the 9x9x25 challenge is technically over but students kept thanking me for using video to mark their work so I decided that I had to share. The feedback quoted in this post was all unsolicited – numerous additional students have thanked me in various ways for trying something new: Video feedback for written work. IO-Images / Pixabay Thank you for this video […]

more...

Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Unintended Learning From the IASR Training Module – OHRC and AODA

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

Today I am working on mandatory training even though I am swamped with marking and course prep for next term. These days I am so focused on course design and gamification as I am developing a quest-based approach for the course I am taking next term. Because of this focus, I notice course design elements around me. What I noticed about this course is that they allowed us to choose our path through the course (somewhat) and showed completion through a status bar. The […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Opening Up: Starting the conversation with an Open Day at #TESS18 with @MarnieSeal and @SarahWendorf

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

Marnie, Sarah and I shared “Opening Up: Starting the conversation with an Open Day” at TESS 2018. We reflected on key reasons why we held an Open Day, the planning and marketing strategies we used, our reflections on feedback received and how we are moving forward. Open day was only a success because it was a large team effort. Our presentation team was happy to represent an analysis of the work of the larger group. Thank you #TESS18 attendees. We […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

The Empowered Educator Keynote at #TESS18 @OntarioExtend @eCampusOntario

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

Simon Bates at TESS / Photo by Laura Killam As a participant in the first and many subsequent bits and pieces of Ontario Extend it was inspiring to hear from Simon Bates about the development of the framework we extenders and Hubbers (what I call users of our Hub) have come to recognize. I use it in my daily practice and admire what was developed through the openness and collaboration of these giants in educational excellence. Better yet, his talk […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Connecting the Dossier to @OntarioExtend

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

While at TESS 2018 David Porter challenged me to think of ways to make Extend more relevant to faculty building an Academic Dossier. Before I delve into earning my final two badges I need to become more familiar with what exactly goes into a dossier. Awesome. I also got to talk to @dendroglyph about your ideas. He challenged me to map what I would (or have) added to my CV from extend. — Laura Killam (@NurseKillam) November 13, 2018 The […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Learning Outcomes: Continued #TESS18 Adventures and Improving @OntarioExtend through Empowering Educator Agency. @eCampusOntario @simonpbates

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

As I sit on the Ontario Northland bus to Sudbury with a fun bunch of academics, we are reminded of the Laurentian Center for Academic Excellence’s metaphor for allowing students to choose their own path to meeting course outcomes. If the end goal is to get to Sudbury, there are multiple ways to get to the destination. As long as we get there we have met the outcome of said trip. This metaphor can be applied in course contexts including the […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Planting Seeds: Empowering Open Advocacy

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

It is empowering to engage with educators and librarians IRL At #OEOSummit2018 #OEOSUMMIT18 – Thank you for anohter great day @eCampusOntario — Laura Killam (@NurseKillam) November 12, 2018 Today, in the final session at the OEO Summit the eCampusOntario Fellows got to lead discussion groups of particular interest to us with participants from all areas of academia. My station was focused on “planting seeds.” What I really wanted to hear about from educators was how they could leave today feeling […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Liberating Your Calendar Bookings. @YouCanBookMe @Calendly @Outlook

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

Way back in 2012 or 2013 the problem of wasted time with back and forth emails to schedule a meeting with students was solved for me by a fairly in-depth Google search. For several years I have been allowing students to book themselves directly into designated times in my calendar – that is right – no back and forth emails!!! (Insert party dance) Students go to a link and pick the best time for them. If they need to reschedule […]

more...

9X9X25 Challenge, Extender Blogs, North Cohort, West Cohort

Are Deadlines Dead?

Profile Picture for NurseKillam NurseKillam on

In a recent post, I shared some of the chaos that I experienced as an educator with a highly flexible and customized approach to assignment submission. While today’s 9x9x25 reflection is about another failure, I don’t want you to think the entire course was a flop. There were a lot of successes – I have just chosen to blog about the failures first in case I run out of time. I think we can learn more by Failing Forward than simply […]

more...