Work

• We had a "D2L CA" meeting - these typically draw a dozen or so people from various faculties, who work with administering courses in D2L. We had 38 people turn up. That's the biggest turnout ever for a session like this. We're going to need a bigger boat. Lots of great idea sharing, and we're going to be trying out some new stuff to make people's lives easier. At least wrt D2L.
• UCalgaryStrong festival - this was the first time the festival was held, on the last day of classes as part of the BSD wrapup celebration. What a great community event. The campus really is feeling like a community, rather than just a bunch of buildings.
• We've been using a Vimeo account to host videos, which has mostly worked out well. Except it's hard to share access to let instructors upload, without giving them the keys to the kingdom. Oh. And there's another good reason why we should be running our own campus media hosting platform. Really hoping we can get something up and running soon so we can start using it in the F2015 semester. It's getting more urgent every day.
• We set up a greenscreen DIY studio for people to use - it's early days, and so far only a single Hello World demo video has been shot in it. cough
• Playing with a Crestron HD lecture capture thing. Looks interesting. Early tests seem to have downsampled video from the main content feed, so we're going to have to mess around with config settings to see if someone borked a setting. Looks promising, though.
• The Faculty Design Studio is slowly coming together. It keeps getting put onto the backburner, but it's going to be fun seeing what instructors come up with over the summer.

Read

• Whitney Kilgore: Faculty Satisfaction with Teaching Online
• Jane Hart: The next step for L&D in the modern workplace
• Megan Geuss / ArsTechnica: From the vault: Watching (and re-watching) "The Mother of All Demos"
• Jon Udell: My last run
• Christian Barry / The Conversation: Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy
• Scott Grunwald / 3DPrint: FormFutura Releases Food-Safe Transparent HDglass 3D Printing Filament – Sample it Today for $2.12
• Harold Jarche: marketing-oriented learning
• Maryellen Weimer: Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds Apart
• David Wiley: Forgetting Our History: From the Reusability Paradox to the Remix Hypothesis
• Vivien Rolfe: Open education: sustainability versus vulnerability #oer15
• Chris Lott: LinkedInLynda Will KILL YOU LIKE EBOLA
• Melanie Hoyland: The Top 6 eLearning Course Navigation Styles
• Youtube playlist of OER2015 keynotes
• Jim Groom: "From EDUPUNK to ds106″ Interview
• via Xeni Jardin / BoingBoing: GTA5 PC race bike + Oculus Rift DK2
• Robin Mueller: Social media tracking in ed development: Does it demonstrate impact?
• Jim Groom: GIFs have Never Been Bigger at UMW - I've been really loving how they're playing with the overlap between digital and physical spaces. so good.
• The Clever PM: TAKE SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF!
• University of South Australia's Digital Learning Strategy 2015 - 2020 - and more strategy docs listed by George Veletsianos
• via George Veletsianos: EdTech Journals

Other

Finally got out on a decent (but short) bike ride, out through Bearspaw with Natasha and Dave. Super fun. Super windy. We wound up heading home early after realizing how dangerous the crosswinds were.