Month: January 2015

  • Through the lens

    Through the lens

    Here is my attempt at the Photo Gallery assignment. I took about 20 min to do it today, starting off outside my office at TRU Open Learning in Kamloops and then in and around my office and coffee room inside the building. I cropped a few of them with Paint and resized some to be…

  • Let’s be OPEN-minded

    Let’s be OPEN-minded

    creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog “OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others” (Atkins et al, 2007, p. 3). “OER include full courses, course materials, modules,…

  • My gift to the world

    My gift to the world

    creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Being an educator is my gift to the world. My father was a school principal for many years and my mother was a teacher for a bit. My dad actually discouraged me from becoming a teacher, since he knew how difficult the job could…

  • Pics could speak 1000 words

    Pics could speak 1000 words

    Trying out creating a media gallery…first one is a slideshow My husband took all pics of flowers and I took the bridge in Pennsylvania last Nov. after OpenEd 2014 conference.

  • Flickr CC Attribution Helper is so cool

    Flickr CC Attribution Helper is so cool

    creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog   creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog   creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Thanks Alan for teaching us about this cool tool…so useful, so easy to use. And thanks for sharing so many…

  • Attempts at media production

    Attempts at media production

    Here are a few media pieces I made for a course a few years ago. Don’t laugh, but they were all made with PowerPoint. My granddaughter, Kiyana, had fun helping me with the video about girls. For my course, I had a Word Press blog, but I have to remind myself about some of the…