I’ve been having so much fun working with my wonderful colleagues in the UVic Library Digital Scholarship Commons (or Makerspace) that my 13th year of been a member of the UVic Speakers Bureau snuck up on me! During my first…
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Inspirational Inquiry Posters for Your Classroom
Trevor MacKenzie and Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt have made available some inspiring posters from their Inquiry Mindset book. The posters are a great reference and might be helpful to post on the wall in your classroom as a visual reminder to students about where they are…
Zotero Love for Google Docs – Finally!
It has been a long time coming, but the open source citation manager Zotero finally natively supports Google Docs! This means that instead of manually managing citations and bibliographies for essays and research papers, Zotero will handle it all for…
Tagged with: collaboration, EdTech, education, Google, OpenSource, research
Posted in education, Google, Open Source
Posted in education, Google, Open Source
Want to Use an Arduino But Don’t Have One?
If you’d like to experiment with an Arduino project, but don’t have access to an Arduino board or add-on electronics, consider working with a “Virtual” Arduino using the wonderful TinkerCad website that is hosted by Autodesk. I was recently looking…
3D Printing Workshop
I taught the first “Introduction to 3D Printing” workshop held in the UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) on April 6th. All of the 14 library staff who participated learned how to prepare 3D models from the Thingiverse.com website, and…
Tagged with: 3D Printing, ActiveLearning, EdTech, education, MakerSpace, OpenSource
Posted in education, MakerSpace
Posted in education, MakerSpace
Interactive Stories with TWINE
If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to publish an interactive story, where the reader is able to make decisions that affect the direction or outcome of the story, then Twine might be the tool for you. Twine’s…
Tagged with: education, History, OpenSource, Pedagogy
Posted in education, Open Source, Uncategorized
Posted in education, Open Source, Uncategorized
Smartphones & Tablets: Educational Distractions or Bicycles for Our Minds?
The short answer is YES! Yes, smartphones and tablets can be wonderful learning tools, or bicycles for our minds if used properly, and Yes, they can be a huge distraction if unskilfully used. A recent study describes how disruptive smartphone…
Tagged with: education, Pedagogy, Smart Phones, software, Technology
Posted in education, Google, iPhone, Open Source
Posted in education, Google, iPhone, Open Source
