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25¢ worth for the 9x9x25

25¢ worth for the 9x9x25

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For this first post in the IDIG team entry in the Ontario Extend 9x9x25 Challenge, I decided to post a random-order, grammatically-incorrect-but-trying-to-keep-it-to-one-run-on-sentence-each “25” cents worth of tips that have served me well in my work as an instructional designer. I noticed many of these align with attributes of Ontario Extend’s Empowered Educator, which was a nifty revelation! Those that didn’t I would consider “slippery” as they are difficult to nail down into any one of the six, but are threaded…

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Embrace Experimentation

Embrace Experimentation

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While I was thinking about what I wanted to write about to kick off the Experimenter module for the #ExtendWest cohort, I tried to recall my earliest known experiment. I grew up in a farming community, so I’m thinking it involved making mud pies out of various ingredients. If you have ever made a mud pie, you’ll know it starts off looking like raw chocolate cake mix – all smooth glossy brown –  but once you put it in the…

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So you wanna be a Technologist?

So you wanna be a Technologist?

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Welcome to the Ontario Extend Technologist Module! Personally, I think it’s one of the top six Ontario Extend modules and look forward to your participation. The story of how the Technologist module came to be started when our development team was considering different pedagogical approaches to the Ontario Extend program modules. Design thinking was deemed an obvious and natural fit for this one. Why? Well, when it comes to use of technology, it is usually for one of two reasons…

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Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.

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I love icebreakers. Perhaps it is in large part due to my introverted nature – I need a prompt to get to know a room full of strangers rather than bumbling around with feeble weather comments or bee-lining it to the coffee/snacks/washroom. My favourite “get to know your classmates” introductory question was while a student in a film studies course. We were asked to talk about our random celebrity encounters.  I listened raptly to others sharing stories from tequila shots…

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A little empathy gets you everywhere

A little empathy gets you everywhere

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Teaching digital literacy for learning to undergrads has taught me many things. One being, never underestimate the ability to be wowed by one of my learner’s final projects (Language Parser Starter Pack anyone?).  The other being, Marc Prensky was wrong. That pesky, prolific educator coined the phrase ‘digital native’ in his “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” to describe those people who have grown up with digital technologies as ‘native speakers’ of this techno-language, and basically better at it than us older…

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H5P Test-Drive

H5P Test-Drive

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I’m test-driving H5P – an open HTML5 content creator that promises many things! And for the most part, it delivers. I tried out a few of the 20 plus content types that they have available here. I’ll continue to add to this as time goes on. Since it’s currently October, there is a pumpkin-spice flavoured theme to these examples (love it or hate it!). Multiple Choice This is the first H5P content type that I tried. Simple, straightforward – can…

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Dear Me

Dear Me

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Ontario Extend #oext48 Dear 1992 Me, Look at you, ferrying across the Georgia Strait to figure out postsecondary life. Your nursing plans went awry, didn’t they? Now it’s time to start the oh-so-popular combo of Criminology/Creative Writing. Guess what? That goes awry as well –  no best-selling, crime-writing authorship in your future (yet). Better to put pen to paper on your year-long adventure in “101 Meals Made with Discount Ramen Noodles.” Don’t worry, the fun you had crossing the country…

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Please Walk on the Grass

Please Walk on the Grass

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A strange thing happens to many people when they’re told not to do something. There is an inner voice – sometimes known as the devil on your shoulder – urging you to do it anyway.  Maybe it goes back to our youth, when we’re told not to jump in the mud puddle because you’ll get your shoes dirty, or not to eat the freshly baked cookies because they’re being saved for Aunt Alice’s visit. ‘Please keep off the grass’ signs…

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