Unpacking Our Co-Design Experience

This week in my Multisensory Class (I think this should be my blog title as I think there will be a lot that start with this statement 🙂 we worked through a rapid co-design process:   We had 3 hours to complete our co-design process and we had to get straight into it  without a …

Multisensory Course Assignment 1

These are my 5 artifacts that I would like to study further in our Multisensory Course. This is just the start of this 12 week journey... William Kurelek 1927 - 1977 (2 paintings - artifact 1 and artifact 2) 'Home on the Range' love the starkness of the dark sky and the snow...   I …

Jigsaws and Living Library (aka teeny tiny tipping point)

In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group—or a large number of group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point_(sociology)  Yesterday... in our New Faculty Experience, we experienced this tipping point as a community... while the practice was not necessarily rare, it was a dramatic shift, …

Day 1 ish Reflection

I seem to be in to counting days or perhaps I'm needing to name days that are important... not sure why this is a 'thing' for me these 'days' 🙂 Although yesterday was Tuesday and our new faculty had begun their first day of the New Faculty Experience on Monday... I took back Day 1 …

New Beginnings…

This summer, Fleming College hired 14 new full-time faculty, never in my tenure has there been such a large group of new FULL-TIME faculty hired over such a short period of time. This 'event', (which coincided with the solar eclipse) allowed our LDS team, to move forward with something we've talked about for a long …

BYOD Day 2

What We Learned From So Far… BYOD Pilot

BYOD Pilot Project Spring 2017 20 participants Workshops were set up as Day 1 and Day 2 to capitalize on faculty development time at the beginning of the spring semester, then they could work on what they were going to do in their courses and how they were going to integrate technology purposefully. Goals of …

Last Day…

Last day of our Summer Intensive course and it has been... well... erm... intense... The biggest take away for me was the notion of Big Ideas, Feedback Loops and the importance of Learning out Loud. Early on in the course (like 10 or 12 days ago) we had to post our big ideas and provide …

The Little Tour That Wasn’t

Today we had a 'tactile' tour scheduled with the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Due to a coding error in the booking the museum staff wasn't prepared to offer us a tactile tour but provided an alternative instead. Tactile or multi-sensory tours of museums or gallery spaces are not easily provided, even in this day …

Day Whatever…

I am losing track of the days in this intensive course, the calendar says Tuesday... On Friday, we started our day with a visit and a talk from Jutta Treviranus, she was in Toronto briefly and is currently on sabbatical from OCAD so we won't have much access to her as we learn our way …