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Week 12 in Review
I’ve been offline for a couple of weeks and it was all the good things it can be when you go on a vacation to Maui, leave the phones and ipads in a drawer and spend your days boogy boarding with sea turtles. Nonetheless, I did manage to squeeze in a couple work days last week. Innovation Classrooms: This year, we equipped a small classroom with a 60″ monitor and a WePresent. Once a user has set up the WePresent on their device, it works like a dream, allowing you to walk into a room, get on the room wifi, and punch in a 4 digit code via an app. No more…
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Week 9 in review and a bit of nostalgia
Innovation Classroom: We decided we had a bit more room in our budget to set up two more classrooms with the WePresent and will try out a room configuration with two monitors on perpendicular walls, perhaps with one on a flexible arm. Our instructors are often moving the furniture around and using the rooms in different ways, so we think that giving more flexibility to the placement of the monitors will better reflect that and get away from a bowling alley set up. SSHRC: We submitted a SSHRC proposal and in true JIBC style it was pulled off in less than 2 weeks. Sincere kudos to my Dean for even attempting the impossible. Praxis:…
