The forum in the Taylor Institute converts from a gymnasium-sized flat-floor active learning classroom into a 336-seat theatre for keynotes and special events.
Tag: video
Gephi twitter community detection screencast
Paul asked about some of the quirks. Easier to show than tell… (based on the instructions linked here…)
NW Calgary Bicycle Commute Timelapse
A 15km ride from UofC to Deepest NW Calgary – only a couple of blocks worth of marked bicycle lanes, and a couple km of separated pathways. I used a helmet-mounted GoPro Hero 4 Silver set to shoot a 4K timelapse with frames recorded every second, played back at 30fps. Nice.
The Sleeper – empathy in the classroom
This video by Michael Wesch is fantastic. Thanks to Mike Caulfield for the link!
Empathy is a powerful thing. Big Data and analytics misses this aspect of teaching and learning.
Mobile photoblogging with iOS and WordPress
I’ve been photoblogging here on my blog for a few years now. This blog serves as the single point of publishing for my photos – they get posted here, then pushed to Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook. I’ve posted over 4,000 photos here (with the most recent shown as thumbnails on the Photos page). Almost all of them have been done through the WordPress iOS app on my phone (and some published from the desktop, through the browser or MarsEdit).
I’ve made a few tweaks to streamline the process – the default category for posts is “Ephemera” – and unless I intervene to set another category (and remove Ephemera), posts don’t get displayed on the front page of this site, nor in the main RSS feeds. This way, I don’t have to worry about spamming the 3 RSS subscribers when I post a bunch of puppy photos.
The process works pretty well, but man, there are a lot of clicks. I did a quick recording to show what it took to post this photo – the process of mobile photoblogging from a phone to WordPress could use some streamlining…
▶ How NOT to Set Goals (Why S.M.A.R.T. goals are lame) – YouTube
Brendan Burchard’s D.U.M.B. goals, on trying not to get buried and lost in busy task-completion. He seems to be of the Tony Robbins / TED school, but, still, there’s something to this.
Dee Fink’s keynote at #TICONF2015
Dee Fink, giving the opening keynote presentation at the 2015 University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching. The theme of the 2015 conference is Design for Learning: Fostering Deep Learning, Engagement and Critical Thinking.
We hadn’t planned to record the keynote, but Dee asked us if we would, so we set something up that morning. The video is usable, but we’ll be producing higher quality recordings for future events…
Year one: Calgary
Absolutely fantastic video project by a UCalgary business student. I love that a student can produce something like this as a personal/indie/small-scale project. Fast, cheap, out of control!
Eye Opener time-lapse @skinakiska
Reclaiming Educational Technology: flexible and open
Episode 3 of Reclaiming Educational Technology, looking at the transition from monolithic vendor-provided enterprise solutions to more flexible and adaptive projects. Some of the segments are also used in episodes 1 and 2, but in order for this to work as a standalone piece, needed to be re-included here as well. When I do a longer supercut version, I’ll remove the duplicate clips.
Reclaiming Educational Technology – episode 3 from UCalgary Taylor Institute on Vimeo.