one more h5p template – Accordions

Alrighty. If you liked the Glossary/Terminology h5p template, and you thought the Tab h5p template was ok, I’ve got a new one for you. My goal here was to set up an “Accordion” – style interaction, mimicking similar types of expand and collapse tools all the cool kids are using today. As I mention in the template, h5p does have a content-type for this, but you can’t customize it (well, not without getting into the code).

So, the new template looks like this:

Go have a look – https://kylemackie.h5p.com/content/1290941857695765899 – download a copy for yourself and make something cool. Let me know what you come up with.

another h5p template – Tabs!

Thanks for the positive responses from my previous post. Sharing another template today. This one’s simpler, and probably easier to work with. This one is designed to have a Tab menu, so that you create a familiar and cohesive interface for the “sub pages”.

Have a look – https://kylemackie.h5p.com/content/1290941692419743699 – download a copy for yourself and let me know what you come up with. Check out the last Tab, for a short/fun/informative quiz.

 

h5p template – terminology / glossary.

I’m excited to share the first of hopefully a few h5p templates for you to reuse, remix, and redistribute. I put this together for a current project, and I’ve removed any specific content or references from this downloadable version.

You can access the template, and download a copy at: https://kylemackie.h5p.com/content/1290940443231778479

Let me know if this is helpful. I’m super excited about the potential of h5p. I’d love to hear about your use, so reach out if you want to chat more.

The (Personal) (Business) Impact of Open

Over the next couple days, I’ll be participating in the 12th Annual Open Education Conference #OpenEd15: The Impact of Open. It’s a conference I’ve always wanted to attend, but for various reasons haven’t been able to make it happen. This year, we’ll make it work.

For folks at home, tune in to the live stream keynotes, and a rich twitter stream. Expect to hear some of the most forward-thinking learning professionals discussing how open open educational resources (OER) can dramatically improve the quality of education. At the risk of telling you what you should do, don’t miss it.

Since starting my consulting business 2 years ago, I’ve had the good fortune to work on a number of open educational projects. I’ve just “run the numbers”, as some of them say. Here’s where my income comes from:

There’s good work be done. Links to some of these projects below. Let me know if you’d like access to any of the source files, or if you have any questions.

• Carleton University Certificate in Blended and Online Teaching
• College Educator Development Program (Western Ontario Region)
• Brock University Guide to Teaching and Learning Online
• Ryerson University Open Learning
  • Journalism Skills
  • Interdisciplinary Program Evaluation 
• Niagara College Student Toolkit
  • How to Write a Literature Review
  • How to Write an Executive Summary
  • How to Conduct a Research Interview
  • How to Build a Portfolio Website

The world needs more songs about Learning Management Systems

First, I didn’t know what I was watching.
Then, I felt embarrassed for the people who put this together.
By the end, I was singing along…

What if you could rebuild the University from the ground up?

Some inspiration from from Michael Wesch:

Wait for the punchline at the end.

MOOC?! WTF?!

Excellent summary from @davecormier. We’ll need to know about this, for later discussion:

You can choose what you do, how you participate and only you can tell in the end if you’ve been successful. Just like real life.”

All I Want for Christmas is an Open Education!

cc: flickr.com/photos/cat1205123

It’s high time I started another degree. I’ve been shopping around for a couple of years now, and (mostly), I have it down to a couple institutions:

• University of Toronto. Master of Information, collaborative program with the Knowledge Media Design Institute.
• York University. Master of Education: Language, Culture and Teaching.

Both very attractive programs, and I’m sure I’d learn a lot.

As I’ve been shopping, I’ve been reading Don Tapscott’s latest epic, Macrowikinomics. It’s a great book. I found myself thinking “Hey, I’m not crazy! Other people think like this too!” (Or, maybe more to the point, at least I’m not alone.) In Chapter 8, Rethinking the University: Collaborative Learning, Tapscott proposes that we need to embrace open and collaborative learning in a “Global Network for Higher Learning”. He questions,

Why is the university the unit of measurement when it comes to branding a degree? In fact, in a networked world, why should a student have to assign his or her “enrollment” to a given institution, akin to declaring loyalty to some feudal fifedom?

There’s been some great scholarship and initiatives on the concept of “open courses” of late. Shouts out to Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier, Bryan Alexander, George Siemens, David Wiley, Jim Groom and others for being trail-blazers on this.

What I’m after though is an open degree.

From what I’ve researched, a number of institutions will allow a small number of courses to come from outside the program and still be counted towards the degree (usually no more than two, although I’ve seen at least one allowing four…maybe under special circumstances, and with major administrative hassles). So, here’s my question, and my pitch: I’ll concede that I have to have a home institution, but what I’d like to do is take “one half less one” credits from other institutions, so that >50% of my credits come from my “home”.

Now, I may be missing something. There may be a program out there that allows this flexibility. If there is please let me know. If you work at one of these magical, enlightened institutions I will sign up! I am an excellent student. Believe me. And, if you want to help me with my quest, in any way, shape or form…

Artifacts from “Community is the Platform” keynote

wordcloud:

initial concept map:

slideshare:
(not exactly sure why “Platform” was cut off of the first slide in the conversion)

supporting material: tinyurl.com/springIT2010

Community is the framework (and it has a fancy new logo)

DemoCampGuelph is for anyone in and around Guelph interested in software, the web and technology!

Startup junkies, wage slaves, consultants, students, indie professionals, engineers, designers, money and marketing guys.

If you want to see and talk about some interesting things, and get to know other people in the Guelph tech community, come on out! You don’t have to demo to attend.

Thanks to the sponsors (for the food), the presenters (for the demos) and the organizers (for letting me in).

Here’s the slidedeck from the opening talk from @missrogue: