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I'm looking for potential subcontractors to be able to support learning/instructional design projects for my clients. If you're interested in talking with me about sporadic, part-time subcontracting opportunities related to learning design, please email me (using the...
Redesigning my website
Last week I was able to reveal my new and improved website, the result of several months of brainstorming and hard work. I was tremendously supported through this process by Niki Campbell and Kim Timothy, the dynamic duo behind Brand Brilliant. But let's back up a...
New tools for creating e-learning
I'm happy to announce that I recently purchased access to Articulate 360, a suite of tools for e-learning course development. This means I can offer an enhanced level of service when building e-learning courses for my clients. Articulate 360 includes several tools for...
Co-facilitating the Facilitator Development Workshop
A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to co-facilitate a Facilitator Development Workshop with Doug Kerr and David Stevenson for Royal Roads University. The FDW is the workshop that people take to learn how to facilitate the Instructional Skills Workshop, a...
E-learning course example: Orientation to Patient & Family Engagement
The BC Cancer Agency has been a client for the past several years and I've been happy to have worked with them on designing and developing both blended online and e-learning courses for staff and volunteers. I'd like to showcase, with their permission, a project that...
The inquiry activity of close-looking
A few years ago I got a chance to tag along with a school group at the Royal BC Museum for a few hours, a sort of spin-off activity to a facilitation project I was working on at the time. I was really impressed with the educators at this wonderful venue and was...
Engaging your audience at your next speaking event
On Friday I was downtown Victoria at the H.O.S.T. (Home Office Support Team) meetup group, speaking to those gathered there about the topic of engaging their audience at their next speaking event. While I never refer to myself as a "speaker", or even usually as a...
Sharing teaching and learning resources across institutions
Last week I was in Kelowna to attend the ETUG Spring Jam, a two-day conference hosted by the Educational Technology Users Group out of BCcampus. (BCcampus is an organization which supports all public higher educational institutions in British Columbia.) I attended...
#TryPod month: Three podcast recommendations
I heard on one of my favourite podcasts today that March is #TryPod month, a month to get people who aren't listening to podcasts already to try them. I think I still have time to slip a post on this under the wire, this being the last day of March, so here are three...
Trying out Facebook Live: Part 2 – Facilitating the Webinar
Last week I wrote a post detailing Part 1 of my experience trying out Facebook Live, and I shared a few things that I learned while getting started with this tool. In this post I want to share with you some of the things I learned while doing the session itself and...