Collaborative project between JIBC and University of Guadalajara to promote course design to be student centered and deploying mobile technology.
There’s no magic beyond my fervent clutch to the discarded in lieu of social media the fully functional tools of RSS and News readers. But I will perk up at a geological metaphor in a blog post. Thus it was Irwin Devries’s dusting off of the publish button on his blog with a great new […]
This Tuesday marks the culmination of our second year of the UDG Agora project, maybe one of the best projects I have been ever part of for professional, collaborative, cultural, and human reasons. It is also one that will likely never make a splash in any academic marquee publishing space. The project is a significant […]
We have just finished the 8 week online phase of the UDG Agora project, this the second year I have been part of this project run by the Justice Institute of British Columbia for faculty at the University of Guadalajara. This is where we tell them about Comparte (Spanish for “Share”), a site I made […]
Look at those tired, weeklong workshop worn down expressions on University of Guadalajara faculty in that photo above. This was the energy we saw a lot of earlier this month, for the entire time for the second year of the UDG Agora project, a collaboration between the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Universidad […]
Our Open Education 2015 presentation yesterday on the UDG Agora project was scheduled in the big vast main ballroom. The big house. Along with Tannis Morgan, Brian Lamb, and Terri Bateman, we tried to cram a lot of stuff into a 30 minute box. My “weird idea that my colleagues should laugh it off dismissively” […]
The work I am part of at Virtual Connecting might be described as “hybridizing” (oi 20 lashes for making that a word) the conference attendance experience- mixing the virtual/remote and the on-site/F2F one. As a slight twist on this, I was part of something that was a hybrid of the mode of presentation. I’ve done […]
From our initial visits and surveys of participants, we knew twitter was not in wide use among the faculty participants of the UDG Agora project. We heard people mostly use Facebook, and WhatsApp for quick communication. In our first meetings, we collecting some data for participant’s twitter awareness (this was only sent out the first […]
We are hearing a lot of feedback from our UDG Agora participants that many of their efforts to have their students use twitter fall short “They don’t like it”, “They won’t go there”, “they prefer Facebook”. I have zero surprise. If you send anyone to twitter for the first time telling them to “make and […]
I’ve used this suggestion a few times to participants in our UdGAgora Project who are trying to figure out what kinds of things they can have their students do, that also produce some artifact that documents their learning. Few things work better to me than having your students have to explain the concept themselves to […]
It is only for solemn or silly reasons I will put a cloth chain around my neck. Yesterday was definitely the latter. I made a video as a “trailer” for our upcoming UdG Agora Google Hangout (this Friday) the live sessions we are running each week to support the online phase of the project. Of […]
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