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Course Designer

What role do you play in eLearning at BTC?

I'm a course designer with the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Canada, but was invited to join this community.

What would you like to gain from participating in this network?

I would like to learn new ways of assisting the instructors that I work with to integrate technology in their own learning as well as their teaching.

What would you like to contribute to this network?

I would like to share ideas from what we're already doing here in Saskatchewan.

My blog is located at www.mctoonish.com/blog

My podcast is at http://mctoonish.podbean.com

Heather Ross's Blog

I wrote about the BTC eLearning community on my other blog yesterday so I figured I should cross-post it here.

I wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago that has received a lot of hits (although not the number of comments that I had hoped for). The overall message of my post was that Canadian colleges need to be working together to serve t… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2008 at 9:49am — 1 Comment

I'm Podcasting

Just a quick post to let you know that I am finally podcasting. The first three episode are available in iTunes (search for McToonish) or here

I basically followed Jen's tutorial for using Audacity and Podbean to get these done. Thanks for that, Jen!

Posted on February 25, 2008 at 6:05am — 2 Comments

A New Plan for Canadian Colleges: A Call for Change and Collaboration

Jen asked me to add this post from my other blog so here it is.

Canadian colleges, those that are responsible for the practical training of people going into the trades, some nursing and business areas, and other technical industries, are facing some significant issues right now.

There is a significant shortage of labour in trades and trades instructors as well as course designers in some areas of the country.

The term knowledge

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Posted on February 18, 2008 at 7:58am — 1 Comment

Which Wiki to Use

This is a post I just put on my regular blog, but thought I'd share it here.

I’ve become very interested in wikis in the past year. I haven’t had a lot of opportunity to use them for collaborating with others, but Alec Couros turned me on to using them for presentations and we are starting to
make use of them in some of the courses that I’m designing. I’ve tried
out three different wikis that are hosted and found that the one to u

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Posted on February 1, 2008 at 10:16am — 12 Comments

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At 9:29am on February 27, 2008, jeff4082 said…: Hi Heather,

No posting yet, and yes I did share the link. A number of us discuss educational issues there in the "Educators Forum", and I liked your post.

They may be thinking about it: (~!| http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1b7858733e1108bf556f

At 10:26am on January 31, 2008, Jen said…: Heather, welcome to our network! I'm so glad you joined us. Maybe you could write a blog or discussion post talking about some of the programs you are looking to infuse with tech and see if any of our instructors have idea or would like to collaborate.