I was in Toronto a week ago as a participant for what was a great conference on supporting and assisting graduate student development. As I’m want to do, I live-tweeted the keynote. Dr. Doug Peers’ talk turned out to be a really interesting and spot-on critique of the way that graduate school gets done today. […]
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photo credit: eanur0 With Comic Sans (a font, for those not in typographic know) taking centre stage in many of today‘s web-related April Fools jokes, it’s worth highlighting some research that might have you re-thinking your derision of the font. Earlier this year, researchers published finding that suggest that “information in hard-to-read fonts was better […]
photo credit: pavila1 As part of ePortfolio week at the University of Guelph, I co-facilitated a session today on teaching dossiers and ePortfolios with my colleagues Janet Wolstenholme and Jason Thompson. My part of the session was to talk about the possibilities out there when thinking about an on-line presence to communicate about your academic […]
Green Honeycreeper, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
A special resting place for your graduate thesis., originally uploaded by Ricardipus. I stumbled upon this photograph of a wall of PhD dissertations collected at U of T’s Gerstein Library. Especially appropriate, given the events of last week and my need to submit the final version of my very own dissertation to FGS sometime over […]
photo credit: clydeorama I achieved a personal milestone yesterday with the successful defense of my PhD dissertation (What is the link to picture above? I “scored” a personal “goal” yesterday). Even more exciting than the “Congratulations” from the chair as I re-entered the room was the word that my work required no revisions and it […]
As you may or may not know, I’m in the middle of looking for a job. One of those positions is an Educational Developer at the University of Guelph. In preparation for the interview, I was asked to prepare a 15 minute talk on “The Future of Educational Development in Higher Education” (a topic that […]
photo credit: Scriblio So, it turns out that most people who have visited the homepage of this website since late May have seen the same homepage. Or, in other words, it would have looked like I hadn’t updated the website since May. Not the case! After noticing this and doing some troubleshooting, it looks like […]
photo credit: kbaird In my dissertation, I take some time to talk about the use and adoption of recently-available technologies (specifically digital cameras to take pictures of birds, nexrad radar to predict migration and the Internet to share bird sightings) by birders. I call the products of these technologies (so, the digital pictures, radar images […]