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Has this happened to you or someone you know? Your friend mentions that you should take a trip to the south pole, and an hour later, there it is, a “sponsored” post on your feed… And you didn’t Google anything about the South Pole. So what’s happening here? Is your phone listening to you? The

The Archive of 5,000 Lives Visualize a massive digital archive—the digitized, transcribed diaries of 5,000 World War I soldiers. Each entry is a raw, unedited window into a specific moment: the muddy reality of the trenches, the heartbreak of loss, or a brief, humorous anecdote about rations. This is where historians traditionally excel. Through meticulous

This morning I was listening to The Teaching in Higher Ed podcast by Dr. Bonni Stachowiak who was interviewing Josh Brake, and was inspired to create the image to the right with the help of Google Gemini. One of the things Josh talked about was the necessity for productive struggle in the learning process. In

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Presentation Information This blog post is based on two presentations: The most recent was for the University of Victoria Faculty of Business professional development workshop on March 4, 2026. Here are the materials from that 60 minute discussion: The original presentation was a 5-minute lightening talk at the Symposium Artificial Intelligence in Open, Social Scholarship:

If you have any questions or get stuck, please ask Rich for some help, as you’re probably not the only person with the question. Some of the links below contain more than one activity (the first link being an excellent example of this). Please complete only the activity described in the description if there are

Here are the workshops and resources for our session with UVic’s Christie concussion lab:

How hard is it to create a professional looking free infographic for your course? Very easy, at least since Google released their infographic tool for their NotebookLM product in mid December 2025… just as long as you have 2 minutes of free time along with a course outline and a Gmail account! My 2-Minute Course

Presentation Slides Here is a link to the presentation slides from my presentation at the Greater Victoria Public Library staff ProD Day. Below the embedded slides are links to additional resources & suggested next steps. Free Workshops Get familiar with GenAI tools by taking in-person or self-paced UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons Workshops GenAI workshops –

There are so many quality, and free, image editing tools we can use nowadays that it can be difficult to choose the tool that will be most helpful for any given task or problem you’re trying to solve. Today we’ll focus on two tools that provide me with the most functionality while at the same

Today, we’re going to cover two very different but important skills enabled by free to use software. I’ll demonstrate how Zotero can be a very useful tool and time saver when citing sources and creating a bibliography, but I’d encourage you to install and test it after class.: If you get stuck or have any

Generative AI (GenAI) is top of mind as many educators struggle to address it with their students’ assignments, whether they don’t want their learners to use GenAI or if they want to model the responsible and ethical use of GenAI. Workshop participants will explore the use of GenAI to assist with Student learning, and administrative

Presentation Slides Here is a link to the presentation slides from my presentation to the Legal Educators about Generative AI & Legal Education. Below the embedded slides are links to additional resources & suggested next steps. Resources & Next Steps

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I achieved a childhood dream of mine today: flying like a bird… this was facilitated by First Person View goggles and my little DJI Neo drone. Here’s me swooping around the back yard while I’m physically standing on the deck. Not quite me flying by myself, but I was seeing everything like I was a

I bought the little DJI Neo drone for my birthday and have been loving it! The drone alone cost only $250 CDN and last weekend I was able to take the following beautiful panoramic video of my neighbourhood, and the San Juan Islands that are just of the coast of Victoria, BC: Admittedly for the

Presentation Summary In my presentation to the Canadian Club, I talked about what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is by using examples from movies and everyday life. We also explored the workings of AI and Generative AI (GenAI), detailing at a high level how large datasets and statistical models power them. We also reviewed some of the limitations of AI tools, discussed their

I had fun this morning doodling a Moo Deng on my iPad using the free pre-installed Apple FreeForm drawing tool. I was inspired by an Instagram short. Enjoy! A short video showing how I drew it:

Tesla has helpfully published some tips for electric car owners who live in colder climates: Winter Driving Tips Here’s my sketchnote cheat sheet:

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Please re-create the pivot table below, using the following data set: Excel data. If you get stuck, you should probably work through the Pivot table and charts activity in the DSC Excel workshop. If still stuck please ask the instructor for help. Next Pivot Table tasks: Questions to reflect on and discuss after completing the

Do you want to make your makerspace skills and safety instruction more engaging and effective? Learn about the OpenSource Lumi toolkit which allows you to create & embed over 50 different types of H5P games, quizzes, videos, and other tools in web pages, along with informal feedback so learners can monitor their progress. I created

If anyone is interested, here is a Clean Technica article about Tesla’s FSD AI problems and their attempted solution.

When bringing in AI in a classroom is something new and scary for teachers as many students have used it to do their assignments, meaning many students have tried to go through school without using actually doing the work. But... Continue Reading →

The multimedia forms of learning can help in various ways with students who learn in various ways. This will help them learn more about as teacher ourselves and help any students we have in our classrooms to provide them the... Continue Reading →

To fit the bird theme of this blog I present my final sketch note above. It is a reminder that just because you cannot walk or run you can still fly. Like the common loon , although not very graceful on land they can still soar and take to the skies. The other half of

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I placed See/Think/Wonder in the centre, along with inquiry-based learning. I think that inquiry-based education is so empowering for students, and I took it as my launching-off point. I think that I mostly moved from the top left clockwise through, as that is what seemed like the logical flow to me.

Doing 3D design for the first time felt a bit like playing a video game that I needed to learn all new controls for. This thought came up when I was trying to drag my work area around like I would when designing a house or landscaping in the Sims. Then, I started imagining students

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Delivery – Activity Break-down & Teaching Points Introduction: Lesson Activity Hook: Discuss what makes a land acknowledgement meaningful. Class Activity: 

Introduction and Required Materials So the only materials required for this assignment is an interactive ARC-GIS online website that can be accessed here . The website was shown to me by the lovely Jessica Drake and is apart of the Nat-geo educator resources. Instructions Goal of Lesson The main goal of this lesson is for

The active learning exercise would be the creation of a professional-ISH sounding podcast, or song, or audio file of any kind. Actually, I’m wondering now if group work might be a better way of proceeding with an evaluation of this project. That way, students could engage with each other in a conversation, and record it

Goal Learners will be able to conduct research and identify Indigenous heroes., Learning Objectives Learning objectives should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to: Prior Knowledge & Learner Profile The learners are in grade five and have been reading nonfiction books about Indigenous

You, Me, and Tectonic Plates: A Brief Lesson. By Rob Anthony  Goal Learners will understand the basic differentiations between the types of tectonic plate boundaries and the related hazards. Learners will be able to create and export a map with 2 layers of siesmic information shown.  Learning Objectives By the end of the lesson, learners

Alright, here we go. I begin with the ‘why‘, as it seems to me the most natural place to begin. I am a little weary to be doing this as a lesson, as it has a lot of component pieces, and is beginning to seem like a big undertaking. However, I think that if I

Creating Meaningful Land Acknowledgements: How does ChatGPT fit in? Goals This lesson will address cross-curricular content of both tech design...