by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 6, 2017 | Educational technology, Facilitation, Professional development
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... by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 18, 2014 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
A couple of weeks ago I read Daniel Pink’s new book, To Sell is Human. Pink argues that all of us are in sales jobs these days, no matter whether we think we’re in sales or not. That is, our title might not be “salesperson” but most of us spend... by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 28, 2013 | Online facilitation
Last November I took Royal Roads University’s Instructional Skills Workshop Online (ISWO) course in order to prepare for co-facilitating it in February as part of my work responsibilities there. (I’m on a one-year contract as an instructional designer... by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 9, 2013 | Facilitation
I always find it exciting to sit down and develop a lesson plan for a course, workshop or presentation and visualize how everything is going to fall together. Of course, it’s not something that happens in one sitting – often creating lesson plans is the...