Videos
Gardner Campbell on the taxonomy of student engagement
A keynote presentation at the University of North Florida’s 3rd annual Academic Technology Innovation Symposium
Innovation and integration of learning technologies needs to be about more than automation and compliance.
Patrick Finn on the importance of Loving Thinking
Patrick Finn is an incredibly inspiring prof, and we’re lucky to have him here at UCalgary.
His work on helping to transition from critical to loving thinking is extremely important. I’ve watched his TEDxYYC talk a few times, and revisited it again after this week’s Beakerhead theatre workshop rehearsal of The Extinction Therapist – an event led by Patrick, with actors presenting their early interpretation of Clem Martini‘s unfinished script. The play was interesting, weird, and thought-provoking – all things we need more of.
Patrick Finn @ TEDxYYC: The Importance of Loving Communication
Also, check out Patrick’s book, “Critical Condition“, with more on his work on loving thinking as an alternative to critical thinking.
Firepit slowmo
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.
▶ 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!