Category: Projects
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ePortfolio Series – Episode 2: What Are Available Platforms at U of C?
There are mainly two platforms available at U of C which are specifically tailored for ePortfolio: UCalgary ePortfolio: UCalgary ePortfolio is your personal flexible digital space for reflecting, documenting, representing, collaborating, and sharing your learning. You can decide what to collect here such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, course work, etc. But these…
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Upcoming Workshop: 360 videos and more…
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ePortfolio Series – Episode 1: What is ePortfolio?
Hi there, My name is Mohammad. I am the ePortfolio coach at the Schulich School of Engineering and this is the first episode of a series on ePortfolio. Through this series of posts, I am going to introduce you to ePortfolio and its benefits for your personal, professional, and educational development. I will also assist…
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Nurse in Translation
My name is Teya and I’ve been acting as the e-Learning Technology Coach for the Cumming School of Medicine. In real life, I work as a Registered Nurse at the Foothills Hospital, fresh out of the nursing program at the University of Calgary. Nurses often act as translators between patients and physicians, and in this…
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The Course Trailer Experience
This past summer, I made a course trailer for a class called KNES213: Introduction to Research in Kinesiology for Dr. Larry Katz. I want to share my experience taking on this project because I learned a lot from it and hopefully my experience can inform yours should you choose to create a course trailer of your…
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Live Streaming the “Fruit Fly Life Cycle” to the Classroom
Hi!, my name is Laura and I’m a Learning Technologies Coach for Science. Let me tell you about a cool project I’ve been working on during this Fall semester. The project was meant for first year biology students and consisted on implementing a real time observation activity of the Fruit Flies’ life cycle. Fruit flies….those…
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Our ‘D2L Basics’ Workshop at the Faculty of Arts
This post is about how my fellow LT coach at the Faculty of Arts – Hany Ibrahim and I organized and presented a workshop on D2L Basics. I will take you through the different stages of preparation and then the workshop itself. What to cover? First, after answering numerous professors’ questions on how to build…
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Trailers? Trailers!
One of the things a lot of the technology coaches have been working on through the summer is helping faculties and their members produce trailers for their courses and programs. A trailer? Why would you do that? The simple truth is that students, either current or prospective, often don’t have time to read through the…