Blending two worlds into one
One of my two presentations at #CACUSS21 was all about digital accessibility. For this presentation, I partnered with Charlie Watson from UVic’s Centre for Accessible Learning to share basic principles of accessibility, demo some assistive technology tools, and share a…
This post was originally posted on Remote Teaching Resources as part of an EDCI 565 assignment. It was co-written with Joanna Lake. Having a computer and internet access does not automatically make the content viewed via the computer and internet…
This post was originally posted on Remote Teaching Resources as part of an EDCI 565 assignment. It was co-written with Joanna Lake. Despite the fact that we all spend a lot of time living in a digital world, we’re taught…
This post was originally posted on Remote Teaching Resources as part of an EDCI 565 assignment. It was co-written with Joanna Lake. Since COVID-19 forced the world to embrace online learning, we’ve been hearing a lot about issues of access….
Despite the fact that we all spend a lot of time living in a digital world, we’re taught rather little about digital accessibility. As a result, lots of digital content (websites, blogs, PDFs, Word documents, videos, etc.) are inaccessible to…
At the tail-end of February, I started a new course in my master’s program. The course was called Development and Implementation of the Curriculum, and the content has a large focus on digital literacy. When we started the course, we…
Last week, I hosted a virtual pet café via Zoom. I invited pretty much everyone I knew: friends from all across the country, colleagues, soccer teammates, classmates. People showed up with their cats and dogs ready to introduce them to…
All across the country, student affairs professionals are trying to figure out how to move their services online. Appointments for things like academic advising and counselling are being moved to Zoom or some other video-conferencing tool. Some writing centres are…
I’ve been reading a lot about quality online learning lately, both for a literature review I had to write, and for course readings. There are a lot of factors that influence online learning effectiveness, and a lot of small (and…
I got incredibly excited when I picked up our class reading last Monday: The 5 R’s for Indigenizing Online Learning: A Case Study of the First Nations Schools’ Principals Course. Finally. Something that directly, 100% related to the work that…