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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...
Trying out Facebook Live: Part 1 – Getting Started
Yesterday I took a small leap for my business and tried out the new Facebook Live. Well, I suppose this livestreaming feature isn't so "new" anymore, but I feel like I haven't seen a lot of people doing it yet and wanted to jump on board. I was intrigued by it and...
Co-facilitating Liberating Structures immersions
Isn't it interesting to look back sometimes on a year and see how you've progressed on an issue or self developed? No, this isn't a reflective new years post (a little late in March!) but just one that is prompted by my thinking about this time a year ago, and...
Personal project on the go
I just started planning a workshop to offer with a friend and colleague, and during our planning conversation the other day I spoke about how - by working on planning this workshop - I was breaking my "rule" about the type of work that I take on right now. I've been...