You can do so many different cool projects with an Arduino microcontroller, it’s hard to know where to start once you’ve mastered the basics. To help with that, I’ve brought together some of my favorite projects. I’ve completed some of…
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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
Retro Arcade Project
I’ve been working on a Retro Arcade emulation project for a while and now I’m almost finished it! Here are the slides from my presentation today at UVic’s Ideafest and below are links to the build instructions and open source projects…
Create an eBook in 10 Minutes
For my eBook workshop at Olds College’s iSpark conference on May 14, 2014: Step 1: Open “eBookPublishingMadeEasy.docx” file in Microsoft Word. Step 2a: In Windows Word 2013, “File” -> “Export” -> “Change File Type” -> “Save As a Web page”.…
A Flipped Class: Knowledge Management Tools & Research Software
For the past four years I’ve taught the session on Knowledge Management tools for Law Students in an Advanced Legal Research a Writing class. In an effort to help the students get more out of the session, this year I…
Tagged with: backup, collaboration, Creative Commons, education, evernote, Google, OpenSource, research, Work
Posted in education, Google, Open Source
Posted in education, Google, Open Source
Is the MOOC / Coursera Model the Future of Higher Education in Canada?
A lot has been written about the rise of Coursera and MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses) over the past year. Increasing numbers of prestigious universities are offering online courses for free to anyone in the world with an internet connection,…
