Mitch is the Indigenous Pedagogy Designer at Trent University. We chat about how one might go about indigenizing teaching and learning practices through patience, transparency, and respect. Mitch covers some initial strategies to consider for those hoping to work weave indigenous ways of knowing in to their pedagogy.

James Skidmore, Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Waterloo chats about what it's like to focus on teaching at a research intensive university. He also describes how he brought Open Education to his very intriguing new course Truth, Reconciliation, Story. And finally, we discuss his passionate disdain for the overuse of the word "passion".

In this episode Terry Green goes way, way outside of Ontario to hear from Maha Bali at the American University in Cairo. Maha shares insights into the origins of Virtually Connecting and where it is headed next.

Maha also reflects on the beautiful work she did with Catherine Cronin and Mia Zamora last semester in their Equity Unbound experience. Also included is blooper at the end that involves 4 year old Alice, milk, and a laptop.

This week Terry chats with Dr. Chuck Pearson (@shorterpearson) form Tusculum University in Greenville, Tennessee. A listen to Chuck's take on teaching science to under-resourced students is basically a pedagogical booster shot for anyone interested.

This week's guest is Dr. Ryan Martin from the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy at Queen's University. Terry and Ryan chat about how he and some of his students went about creating a full-blown, home-grown, open souorce educational technology and how we can all get our hands on it.

Regina Gong (@drgong) is the Open Educational Resources (OER) Project Manager & Head of Technical Services & Systems at Lansing CC in Michigan. In this episode, Terry and Regina chat about a few of the 1000 steps an institution can take towards #OER and Open Education. And food.

In this episode, Nate Angell (@xolotl) from @hypothes_is describes how he came to be among the ed-tech heroes at Hypothes.is and just how in the heck they managed to make web annotating cool. Terry and Nate also chat about exciting new developments that Hypothes.is has just released!

Without question, Billy Meinke is Open Education subject zero in the state of Hawai'i. We chat about his process in developing Open Educational Resources, localized for the students of the University of Hawai'i and his recent visit to Ontario for the Open Education Ontario Summit. We also find out if he got a chance to surf today.

Terry Greene speaks with Catherine Anderson (@candersHamilton), teaching professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University. They talk about what Catherine did to earn herself a spontaneous round of applause from her students and the moniker "eTextbook Rockstar"!

Martin Weller (@mweller) Open University, professor in @IETatOU, Director of @oer_hub, President of @A_L_T. Martin's long running blog, The Ed Techie (blog.edtechie.net) is approaching its 1000th post, so in this episode, we quiz him on his own blogging.