Category: Cloudlinks
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Oxford Days 21-17
A brief hiatus helping out a friend to get to Tofino. Plunging into the next 5 days – from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! Copan Ruinas – an ancient Mayan city filled with people, art and agriculture that thrived from 426CE to 822 CE…and then abruptly ended. On the Solstice in 2024, Oxford instructors encouraged…
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Oxford Days 26-22
Another series of days to explore – from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! Inside a Genius Mind: A Collaboration between Emeritus Professor Martin Kemp, Google Arts & Culture, Artist in Residence Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Nexus Studios, July 2023 Leonardo’s notebooks, written in ‘mirror’ writing, are challenging to interpret. This team uses machine learning to make…
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An Oxford exploration
While a little late for counting down the days of December using my favourite Advent calendar from Oxford University, I decided to look over my shoulder and do a backwards exploration from the 2024 Festive Countdown Calendar to see what ‘sparks’… Discover the WikiTrivia timeline game! “…take a moment to unwind this fun, interactive trivia…
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Curiosity vs Learning
I’ve had fun the last week or so, visiting many interesting, intriguing web places using the beautiful ‘Festive Calendars’ created by Oxford Continuing Education from 2023 to 2017. Each year’s calendar begins and ends with the following explanation: “Our gift to you: each day during the month of December, explore free, educational online resources –…
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A wealth of online teaching resources – ON
I’ve been watching the generous outpouring of tips, webinars, workshops, resources from the US and Canada, aimed at helping teachers pivoting to online teaching. Check out the page of curated resources offered by ecampus Ontario (official name Ontario Online Learning Consortium): Supporting Remote Teaching and Learning During COVID-19. You will find webinar recordings, all kinds…
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A wealth of online teaching resources – BC
A recent tweet from Dr. Tony Bates provided the nudge I needed to update my collection of Canadian teaching online resources shared during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve been watching the generous outpouring of tips, webinars, workshops, resources from the US and Canada, aimed at helping teachers pivoting to online teaching. I’ve poked at a couple…
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BC Teaching & Learning Centres
BC’s Teaching & Learning Centres Have you ever gone looking for inspiring ideas or examples of teaching (and learning) and come up empty? Or wondered about what educators at other institutions were thinking about, working on, or practising that might be useful in your teaching context? As an educational developer and facilitator I’m often curious…