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“Starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic.” – Robin Sharma I can’t believe it is already the end of the semester, I feel like that 14 weeks flew by. I really enjoyed cooking these meals, and I enjoyed eating… Continue Reading →

I created this video and infographic to be part of the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces – ISAM 2023 – which is being held this year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The video outlines some of the things… Continue Reading →

This week will take a closer look at coding and computational thinking as cross-curricular tools we can use to enrich our curriculum, and potentially recommend tools our learners can use to aid them in their inquiries. I hope that there… Continue Reading →

I hope that you will find this week’s topic interesting, engaging, and a bit fun as we tackle Gaming and Gamification in Education. I’m looking forward to some good discussions and engaging hands-on experiences in our class time together. Enjoy!… Continue Reading →

Some hands-on Knowledge Mobilization skills activities: Here are the slides from the Knowledge Mobilization presentation for your reference.

This week we are going to discuss the role that Flipped, Blended, Online, and Mult-Access Learning can play in our classrooms. Whether or not any of these modalities would be appropriate for your class is highly dependent on the age… Continue Reading →

This week we are fortunate that Joanna Lake, who is a K-12 educator in Victoria, BC, has taken the time out of their busy schedule to engage talk to us about her inquiry-based learning practice and assessment in her middle… Continue Reading →

We’re into the final stretch of our time together in 336, and we will be doing some reflecting this week on the major themes we’ve covered in the course, as well as choosing one of four different activities during the… Continue Reading →

We had a wonderful discussion about AI and academic assignments with instructors from the UVic Psychology department. The presentation slides and all other materials were created or curated by Rich McCue, MA, BComm (Digital Scholarship Manager & Education Technology Instructor in the… Continue Reading →

“That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.” – Raph Koster If I am being totally honest, prior to this weeks class on gaming in education I was skeptical of the benefits of… Continue Reading →

Photo by Eliobed Suarez on Unsplash The Internet Have you ever googled yourself? Well, today I did just that. I was surprised to see the images that came up. Though some were from my competitive curling days, the majority were… Continue Reading →

During our education and technology class, we explored how teachers can implement technology in their classrooms in an effective, engaging, and safe way, for all levels and learners. For our inquiry project, we asked: How can Minecraft be effectively used… Continue Reading →

How Can We Use Technology to Take “Impossible” Field Trips? Process – Our Timeline: Feb. 14 Start the planning process – discover questions we have, and find the answers to them as well as guided questions on assignment rubric. Mar…. Continue Reading →

Question: How to use technology to create compelling virtual reality “impossible” field trips? Process – Our Timeline: Feb.14 Start the planning process – discover questions we have, and find the answers to them as well as guided questions on the… Continue Reading →

Reflection: Things We Did Well: We focused a lot on doing an in depth review of google classroom, I think that this was an effective foundation for our topic and we highlighted how google classroom is not perfect but there… Continue Reading →

The last class of the semester for my undergraduate EdTech class was looming. While I wanted to make the class review of what we’ve learned over the semester more engaging than me droning on with my well-worn slide deck, did… Continue Reading →

This is a presentation on generative AI and Academic Assignments by Rich McCue, MA, BComm and Zahra Premji, PhD for the UVic Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation’s (LTSI) Let’s Talk About Teaching (LTAT) event in August 2023. If you… Continue Reading →

This is a presentation on generative AI and Academic Assignments by Rich McCue, MA, BComm (Digital Scholarship Manager & Education Technology Instructor in the Faculty of Education) and Zahra Premji, PhD (Health Research Librarian) for the Council of Canadian Departments… Continue Reading →