Jeff Longland

A new means of getting to campus….

So today I’m feeling like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, minus the weapons… but who knows, maybe I’ll meet a Nazi gun dealer and find myself a missile launcher. Anyhoo, I’ve been falling down, literally. Yesterday evening I took a face plant after tripping on a small, inconspicuous twig - I stumbled, trying to regain balance, alas, I was destined to fall. My glasses slipped off and fell to the ground - not broken, but thoroughly scuffed - enough to drive me nuts when sitting in front of a computer - which is all day. But just so I get the message, destiny has it that I’m going to slip’n’slide my way down a hill this morning - covering myself in mud and grass. If it weren’t for having to catch the bus and get to the office for a meeting, maybe I would’ve gone for another trip down the hill… but that would be too much fun. So a quick change of clothes and then a change of route to catch the next bus. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Oh, and now it’s raining… and I’m without umbrella. Not a good day. Why this is blog worthy I don’t know… but it feels good to get it off my chest.

Looks like Elluminate has begun a blog - and it’s hosted here on Edublogs to boot. Check it out.

Via a colleague, I just heard of a clicker seminar being held in June by the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs:

The purpose of this session is to introduce attendees to different ways that colleagues have and are adopting clickers to teaching science in general and biology in particular. One goal is to give people who have worked with clickers a chance to trade ideas, experiences and best practises (not to mention avoiding the worst ones). A second goal is to give those who are thinking of taking this approach to teaching some indications of how one might proceed. A third goal is to establish a network of people using clickers in teaching biology to provide a forum for exchanging ideas.

For more info, please see Clickers in Teaching Biology, June 4th 2007

I’ve previously posted about McGill’s Instructional Scenarios Wiki, but it deserved another link - it’s focused on WebCT Vista, but good nonetheless. And this morning, via the blogosphere, I discovered the University of Manitoba’s New Technologies for Teaching and Learning wiki. Great stuff!