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The gang's all here this week to talk about the Summer Programming Suite from Learning Technology and Innovation, and Brenna is thinking about reigniting your professional spark.

Brenna is behind the eight ball this week, so no interview: just some reflections about how to reconcile with the person you've become through the pandemic.

Brenna is behind the eight ball this week, so no interview: just some reflections about how to reconcile with the person you’ve become through the pandemic.

Show Notes

Brenna mentioned Cascadia again; there’s still time to register if you want three free! days of professional development and fun.

The OER21 sessions were archived, too, and you should be able to check them out soon on their website.

Brenna found this New York Times piece about how we are allowed to be different people after the pandemic really heartening.

Transcripts

Available for download as a .docx file here.

Available for download as a .pdf file here.

Brenna is making friends and enemies with her thinking about entitlement this week, and she's joined by someone who has been in the trenches through all of this to debrief on the year that was.

Brenna is making friends and enemies with her thinking about entitlement this week, and she’s joined by someone who has been in the trenches through all of this to debrief on the year that was.

Show Notes

Brenna is, in fact, keynoting the Cascadia conference next week. Seems like a rough choice, Cascadia. If you’re morbidly curious, you can register (it’s free!).

Dave talked about what he got out of the TPC Keynote this year. If you missed it, it was archived!

Dave and Brenna talked a little about the cognitive load of videoconferencing. If you’re feeling this too, check out this article called “The Zoom Gaze” by Autumm Caines.

Moodle Support office hours — or therapy sessions — continue apace. TRU folks can check the schedule in the Moodle shell. No hard feelings, non-TRU folks.

Dave mentioned ACTAC. It’s the Academic Computing and Technology Advisory Committee. Brenna chairs it. You should come!

At the end of the episode, Brenna draws a line between feedback and grade justification. You can read more about effective feedback here.

Transcripts

Available for download as a .docx file here.Available for download as a .pdf file here.

This week, Brenna is reflecting on reflection and on the power of kindness, and is joined by someone who lives and breathes "open" even more than she does.

This week, Brenna is reflecting on reflection and on the power of kindness, and is joined by someone who lives and breathes “open” even more than she does.

Show Notes

Brenda mentioned a lot of different open education resources, if you’re interested in learning more. There’s the Open Education Working Group (which anyone can join!), the amazingly comprehensive OER LibGuide,  and a Pressbook with information about the open education grants available.

Brenda also mentioned two of the OER initiatives underway at TRU: OERu and the UN Sustainability Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship.

Brenna used the phrase “openwashing” in the episode. Here’s what that means:

Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from ‘greenwashing.’ Michelle Thorn

Openwashing: n., having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary practices. Audrey Watters

A student-created resource that came up in this episode is FoodLoops — check it out, it’s super cool.

Brenna claimed at the end of the episode that reflective practice helps to make learning “sticky.” Here’s a good introductory overview of reflective practice.

Transcripts

Available for download as a .docx file here. Available for download as a .pdf file here.

This week, Brenna is trying to figure out if this really is the home stretch, or if it's just Groundhog Day, and she's joined by someone who loves to geek out about data as much as she does.

This week, Brenna is trying to figure out if this really is the home stretch, or if it’s just Groundhog Day, and she’s joined by someone who loves to geek out about data as much as she does.

Show Notes

Acronyms fly this week! Carolyn Hoessler joined Brenna to talk about DSALT, or the Data Stewardship and Analytics for Learning and Teaching, working group. They are looking for more people to join, so reach out the Carolyn if that interests you!

Brenna briefly mentioned ACTAC, the… Academic Computing and Technology Advisory Committee (?), which she chairs. Everyone is welcome at those meetings, too — email Brenna if you want to know more.

The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) comes up briefly in the episode. Do you know your obligations under the law in BC? There’s a handy online module for that.

The article about eye-tracking that Brenna referenced is available online: “What Does Your Gaze Reveal about You?”

Brenna has written more about how the Habits functionality in Teams works. It upsets her a lot.

The BCcampus course Brenna referenced is called “Pulling Together,” and the materials are freely available online. It’s a really good use of your time to sign up for one of the iterations of the course.

Finally, Brenna mentioned the Meme Media workshop. You can register for it here or check out the last iteration of the workshop (it happened so long ago, it was *in person*).

Transcripts

Available for download as a .docx file here. Available for download as a .pdf file here.

This week, Brenna is back from a surprise hiatus with an episode from her personal beforetimes. She talks about Open Ed Week and is joined by the Open Learning dream team to talk about a new OER for the campus community (and beyond).