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Week in Review Dec 20
I took Monday off, so I caught up on some podcasts and painting. I also booked a January (brrr) flight to Edmonton where I’ll see my daughter compete in the Junior Nationals Olympic lifting. I’m hoping for good weather which means nothing worse than -15C. The rest of the week was a lot of going through my lists and crossing things off in anticipation of a nice break. Our team did some more work on our strategic bucket planning, we had an OpenETC meeting and wrapped up our roadmap and budget proposal, I sat in on a great presentation by Selina on the OER findability project here at BCcampus which…
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Week 46 In Review
Well if things weren’t busy enough, they notched up to a whole new level of crazy this week. When it rains it… Highlights this week included two days of BCcampus events, with the always excellent ETUG on Thursday and a SOTL event on Friday. ETUG opted for an unconference style, and I have to say I loved this, especially the pitches, which is a great way to get people engaged and excited right off the mark. I think all conferences should have pitches. Of course, I’ll be seeing many of the good folks at the BCcampus events next week at OpenED. I hoped to have my presentation ready before I…
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Week 44 In Review
Came down with a nasty cold that took away half of my week, so I’m light on activities to share, and a bit late on this one. OER research study: With the #opened14 conference only a few weeks away, we are scrambling to finalize the data analysis on our JIBC OER study. This study has been already useful for making some internal decisions, so mission accomplished to some degree. WordPress: Wordpress was a big topic this week, since we had another client funded project come forward that seems like it would be best served by an open WordPress environment. We also had some talks with our Technology Services about WordPress,…
