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Author: Gail Morong

  • Getting away from the LMS

    Getting away from the LMS

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    We’ve been talking about the disadvantages of using an LMS at my workplace. Just sharing an article Techniques for unleashing student work from learning management systems which encourages educators to allow students to share in spaces that are available to them after a learning experience is over….more meaningful, useful and authentic.  

  • Alan Levine motivates me

    Alan Levine motivates me

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    I haven’t blogged for a while, but Alan Levine has motivated me to get going again. I was so happy to see Alan at TRU again after he had left us last spring to work on our YouShow projects. I recently met Alan again at Open Ed 2015 in Vancouver and then he came to Kamloops for…

  • Cinderella audio story

    Cinderella audio story

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    This is my Cinderella Audio Story that I made in Audacity, converted to an MP3 file and uploaded to SoundCloud (reminder to self: to embed into blog, paste URL in line by itself). It’s not perfect but the idea was to play around with Audacity and I did do that (thanks so much for your help,…

  • Through the lens

    Through the lens

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…