Reading Time: 10minutesSince my adolescence, I’ve never had a more than objective interest in religion. As a little kid, I trusted my Dad as I recited the Lord’s Prayer with him at night while he tucked...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. This is one of my assignments. Novel, Lesson 3: Activity...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. After many weeks of transforming course content from Word documents...
Reading Time: < 1minuteI’m enjoying the MOOC “The Future of Storytelling” (#StoryMOOC). This little video is my response to the Creative Task for Chapter 4 (“Inspirational Week”) The proposition for the task was this: Take a camera,...
Reading Time: 2minutesI’m enrolled in the MOOC “The Future of StoryTelling” (#StoryMOOC, iVersity.com). This Massive Open Online Course provides a foundation in the principles of the formats and methods of fictional storytelling. The reasons this online...
Reading Time: 3minutesThis post is the first in a new series of assignments for a free online course. This open course is called Why Openness in Education. The first assignment given in this course proposed: “Think...
Reading Time: 2minutesIn Week 4 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures, one of the “Perspectives on Education” articles asks the question “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. I must admit that I’ve sometimes asked myself a...
Reading Time: 5minutesWeek 4 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures explores the theme of “Redefining the Human”. I think the over-arching message this week is that our concept of humanity has become a relative and...
Reading Time: 5minutesHere is my “Digital Artifact” for the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures. This blog post and the embedded video, form my Digital Artifact , my personal response, to the MOOC “eLearning and Digital Cultures”. In...
Reading Time: 2minutesMOOCs and UBC: Top 12 things you need to know now… In September 2012, UBC entered into an agreement with Coursera to deliver online web-based free courses as part of MOOCs. UBC has four...
