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Launching a new Digital Hub Strategy
This week, I’ll be introducing a new Digital Hub strategy to B.Ed. candidates at the University of Ottawa. The strategy, which I co-authored with my colleagues Linda Radford and Maria Robinson-Cseke, is designed to support our B.Ed. candidates as they develop a positive digital presence for themselves as professionals. There will surely be MANY insights…
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Dear America, This is my love letter to you.
Dear America, This is my love letter to you. On September 3, 2005, 6 days after giving birth to our first child, four of which were spent in the NICU of the very same hospital where I was born 32 years earlier, I arrived at your door, an immigrant. I was scared, nervous, and worried…
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Negotiating and advocating for more access to technologies at UO
I feel like I just had a terrific success that I need to document here. Maybe these reflections will encourage others, especially those new to the Academy who are finding their way in their new institutions. A little context. I arrived as a new Assistant Professor in Educational Technology at the University of Ottawa last…
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Quand je serai grande…
While cleaning out my youngest daughter’s backpack yesterday on the last day of school, I discovered this picture. For those who don’t read Kindergarten French, it says, “When I grow up… I will be a teacher.” I thought I would share this here to say thank you to all of the teachers in my children’s…
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My Tuesdays with Bernie
I was at the Faculty of Education awards ceremony in February when Bernie asked me to help him design a hybrid graduate seminar. He had taught the course several times, but wasn’t sure how to revise it so that half of the classes would take place online. Bernie knew that I had some experience with…
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#EduFacForum: Building Capacity for Innovation
The Education Faculty of Education Forum in Toronto has given me an ideal opportunity to curate the set of initiatives that have started to take shape in this first year of my appointment at the University of Ottawa around the idea of “building capacity for innovation”. Around the poster, I have had several productive conversations…
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A First eBook Publication
Students in EDU5287: Emerging Technologies and Learning have worked tirelessly this semester to create an ebook! It has been a learning process for all of us — but the results are finally available to share. The book is a collection of chapters, each published by a student in the course. Topics are incredibly diverse, but…
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Teachers Teaching Teachers @UOttawaEdu
The final week of the teacher education program is upon us at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education — and it is punctuated by a two-day series of professional learning seminars for teacher education candidates. I’ll be presenting to a group of students today on online inquiry. My presentation brings together some of my…
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Using Social Media for Patient Advocacy and Learning: A conversation with Rebecca Hogue
I spent some time speaking with Rebecca Hogue @rjhogue this morning about the e-patient advocacy work she does on her blog http://bcbecky.com Rebecca is a Doctoral Student at the University of Ottawa and her dissertation will document and analyze the impact of her blog on readers. It’s important, inspiring work that sits at the intersections…