Wow. Okay. I’ve really not been writing very much of late. a whopping 18 posts in 2020, and erm, 3 so far for 2021 as we head towards the end of July. It’s not that I haven’t been busy, or got stuff to write about. … Continue reading What else has been going on?
Last week we held our first Office of the Deputy Provost all day retreat. My office contains the Office of the Registrar, Learner Support Services, and the Centre for Learning Accreditation (at the moment, it will expand, more on that another time). We had games, … Continue reading Not retreating
https://twitter.com/ammienoot/status/1244104824850800640 It’s been nearly a year since myself, Maren and Tannis started broadcasting together on #ds106radio. Radio adventures started out for me with listening to birdsong as Jim Groom broadcast his days in Italy. The contrast with the depths of a prairie winter, and the … Continue reading #ds106radio is just like heaven
I haven’t written a lot about my new role and just what exactly I’ve been getting up to over the last year, mostly because it has seemed so trivial compared to all of us trying to get through this bloody pandemic. However, it’s been over … Continue reading Care is a sustainability practice
I’ve seen a number of news articles over the last few weeks about the start of term in various Universities. Many of them share a common theme – IT services suffering under load on the first day of teaching. They also share the same sorts … Continue reading I do not like this new normal (please be nice to others)
I’ve Tweeted a few things this week relating to a colleague in another Canadian university, Ian Linkletter, who now finds himself on the sticky end of a lawsuit from Proctorio, an automated proctoring service, for sharing some videos that they regarded to be confidential. These … Continue reading Mind the Ethics Gap
I’ve not blogged any substantial edtech musings in a long time, because it just hasn’t seemed like the moment and I’ve not had the energy. I’ve realised that although I’ve been riding the novelty of a new country and a new role, the grind has … Continue reading OpenETC reflections and minor miracles
One of the things keeping me sane in this madness has been noodling about on #ds106radio, most usually with Tannis Morgan and Maren Deepwell. With the recent upgrade to the server infrastructure to use Azuracast, Jim offered me the opportunity to kick the tyres a … Continue reading Playing with Azuracast #ds106radio
Okay – I’ve been taking a short for-credit course from the UK Open University, and since it has a reflection task at the end of every week, I had some grand lofty plan that I’d cross post that here and perhaps expand on it a … Continue reading A quick thought on an icebreaker
It’s been something like 8 months since I started my new role as Deputy Provost here at Athabasca University and I had my annual performance review in late July, which was as it turns out a welcome opportunity to take a moment to reflect on … Continue reading Taking Stock
