Archive for the 'educational technology' Category

Comparing Ontario University Strategic Mandate Agreements

Wednesday, January 8th, 2020

As part of my Masters of Education, I completed an independent study, the subject of which was reviewing all of the current Ontario Universities Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMAs). The most interesting part: The SMA2 Metrics Power BI dashboard. Why? It seemed to me like I might be the first person to read all the SMA2s… Continue Reading Comparing Ontario University Strategic Mandate Agreements

I’m a PMP

Monday, September 23rd, 2019

I’m a Project Management Professional! Today in an exam centre in Mississauga Ontario I completed and passed my 4-hour exam to become a PMP. It’s been a long road, but mostly because I took my time. I first want to give my thanks to the people and employers that supported me through the process: Thanks… Continue Reading I’m a PMP

An App Store for Web-Based Instruction

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Do what you do best, and link to the rest. A lesson of the web learnt quickly by those who’s success depends on being creative online. The latest released version of Sakai, version 2.9.3, improves on the existing features that allows for the connection of Sakai courses to external tools. The forthcoming version of Sakai,… Continue Reading An App Store for Web-Based Instruction

Notes on Clickers

Monday, January 13th, 2014

Some notes on physical and virtual classroom “clickers” that I’ve maintained in Evernote over the years and shared a few times. Seemed like a good thing to blog about. Phone-based: Turning Technologies has physical clickers and smart-phone clickers www.turningtechnologies.ca/ If you are using a textbook from Nelson or Pearson there might be a chance that you… Continue Reading Notes on Clickers

Me and Evernote

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Long ago I promised myself I’d blog about <a href=”evernote.com”>Evernote</a&gt; when I made more than 1000 notes. I broke that record on Friday November 9, 2012 so here’s a quick summary of what Evernote is and what I use it for. Evernote is intended to help people remember everything. While I haven’t achieved that, I’m… Continue Reading Me and Evernote