Writing About Writing
-
Time saving tips when teaching online
Read more: Time saving tips when teaching onlineWhat time saving tips to do you have? How do you stay sane while providing students with meaningful feedback? I found myself teaching three courses in a semester. I found myself typing in the same things over and over. At first, it was my Zoom room URL, then it was certain aspects of feedback.
-
Designing your professional online presence
Read more: Designing your professional online presenceHave you taught an ePortfolio / online presence course? This summer I had the privilege of designing and teaching a course that involved creating ePortfolios. I drew upon a lot of my prior experience and knowledge about open education and online learning to design the course. From a learning theory perspective, connectivism and heutagogy were…
-
Gettin’ Air
Read more: Gettin’ AirA few weeks ago I had the pleasure of having a conversation with Terry Greene for his podcast Gettin’ Air. It was great to spend some time chatting with him about open pedagogy, online teaching, and the Virtually Connecting origin story – from my Point of View. You can listen to the session here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/10100518/rebecca-hogue…
-
A different lens #patientnarratives
Read more: A different lens #patientnarrativesAn article in the BMJ blog about The transformative power of patient narratives in healthcare education crossed my stream today. This timing could not be more appropriate as I am working on the discussion for my dissertation and working through the concept of health literacy. From the article, Baines, Denniston, and Munro (2018, July 8),…
-
Want an Instructional Designer to create a 3-week online course for you?
Read more: Want an Instructional Designer to create a 3-week online course for you?Want an instructional designer to create a 3-week instructor led online course for you? I’m looking for a few potential organizations with some flexibility to provide projects for my students to complete. I teach a course called “The design and instruction of online courses”. As part of the course, students need to create a 3-week…
-
Real or made-up
Read more: Real or made-upI’m sure I could find a few people willing to let an instructional designer take a stab at 3-weeks of online course content or a multimedia project. I could, but should I? What are your thoughts on bringing in real-world projects for students to work on as part of the course?
-
What I learned about online teamwork
Read more: What I learned about online teamworkI have been teaching online teamwork for years. I know that my students were not taught how to work together in an 100% online format. For many of my students, this is the first time they have been asked to work in an online team. It means I need to teach them how to work…
-
Goingeast.ca – Scott and Becky’s grand adventure #whydomain
Read more: Goingeast.ca – Scott and Becky’s grand adventure #whydomainIn preparation for a course I’m teaching this summer that involves creating a domain for the purpose of hosting an ePortfolio, I tweeted asking for help asking for any resources that would help students choose a domain name. In doing so, Terry Green pointed out an activity called WhyDomain that is part of the Ontario…
-
Digital Storytelling and Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto #digped
Read more: Digital Storytelling and Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto #digpedLast week, I had the privilege of attending a two and a half day workshop on digital storytelling at Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto. … What questions would you use to help someone create a story about themselves?
-
Student journals as instructor-learner interaction
Read more: Student journals as instructor-learner interactionRather than using the quiz functionality, I implemented journals using the blackboard learn journal functionality. I am loving it. Students are writing 2-4 paragraphs about the class. They are doing much deeper reflections, connecting the content to their lives outside the classroom. But even more important, they are using the journals to have a 1:1…
-
Explainer videos
Read more: Explainer videosI’ve published my first Instructional Design Explainer video – in this short clip (it is just under a minute), I describe how I view the differences between pedagogy, andragogy and heutagogy.
-
Reflection snowballs
Read more: Reflection snowballsI’m working on the content for the first week in a class on Adult Learning Theory. It is the first time I’m teaching the class, so I’m doing a lot of exploration for both reading materials but also different ways to engage students in learning. One idea that is key in my classroom is that…
-
Synchronous online teaching
Read more: Synchronous online teachingThis semester, I’ve decided to dedicate more time to providing synchronous learning experiences for my students… Another challenge I’m facing is figuring out the different activities that I can enact in a synchronous setting, and determining when the different activities are appropriate.
-
The relationship between oppression and empowerment?
Read more: The relationship between oppression and empowerment?Is there a relationship between oppression and empowerment? Is empowerment needed if there is no oppression? Can there be empowerment without oppression?
-
Oppression of the disease and its treatment
Read more: Oppression of the disease and its treatmentIn looking at health literacy from a socio-cultural and critical perspective, one of the themes I’m looking at is oppression. I had originally thought that I’d be looking at my experience and how the healthcare system (e.g. providers, insurance companies) was oppressing me – although I questioned the term oppression in part because the healthcare system…
-
Instructional design podcasts
Read more: Instructional design podcastsHave you thought about using a podcast in your teaching? Is it accessible? If not how (or do) you deal with accessibility requirements? If you are an instructional designer, do you have a favourite podcast?
-
My experience of health literacy
Read more: My experience of health literacyI now realize that I’m not looking at a general definition. I’m looking to figure out what my definition is.
-
Reflections on #DevLearn
Read more: Reflections on #DevLearnLast week I attended the eLearning Guild‘s DevLearn conference. This is the best conference I’ve been to for professional development for Instructional Designers that focus on areas outside of academia. The primary audience of the conference are those involved in the creation of eLearning materials or infrastructure for the corporate sector. There are several folks…
-
Instructional design – professional development #devlearn and #dplToronto
Read more: Instructional design – professional development #devlearn and #dplTorontoI have felt the need to do some professional development around my work as a Lecturer in instructional design. After my last leave, I am feeling especially disconnected from the industry – so I decided that I should attend the eLearning Guild’s DevLearn conference. I had been planning to attend back in 2014 before I…
-
We need to talk about ethics and social media: a conversation
Read more: We need to talk about ethics and social media: a conversationIt is nice seeing the article online (I don’t have a print version yet). But even nicer was the memory of time spent with Marie writing the chapter. The time we spent working out the format, and figuring out how it would all come together. We spent a lot of team reading the seconds out…
-
Contemplative blogging
Read more: Contemplative bloggingI miss blogging. More, I miss having deeply reflective conversations with other bloggers. I miss the collegiality of the conversations. Since I started seriously focusing on my dissertation, I stopped following a lot of blogs. I’ve been in this in-between world. When I my friend Autumm decided to start a contemplative blog practice, I figured…
-
And alternative CV #unboundeq #altcv
Read more: And alternative CV #unboundeq #altcvI have been reflecting on the alternative CV activity in the Equity Unbound course for over a week now. I tried to do something visual, but that just wasn’t working for me. I found myself asking, what are my values? Or, what am I most proud of? Right now that answer is that I was…
-
Welcoming students
Read more: Welcoming studentsThe classes I teach started today. I wanted to make a welcoming statement, as I recall friends telling me that it mattered when professors said to them that they would be welcome in the class (regardless of sexuality). I wanted to make sure my statement felt inclusive, but wasn’t too long or a long list of…
-
Greater themes
Read more: Greater themesIn reading today’s post by Carolyn Thomas at Heart Sisters, she talks about a show on CBC Radio (Michael Enright’s Sunday Edition), and how the interviewer highlighted that illness narratives were not just about the facts of the illness, but also addressed bigger life questions. That got me thinking about what my illness narrative is…
-
An update, a bit about project LEAD, and request for ed tech resources
Read more: An update, a bit about project LEAD, and request for ed tech resourcesIt has been a long time since I’ve posted to this blog. In April or May, we put my PhD on hold for 8 months so that I can care for my mother, who at the time was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. I lived with her most of the time, with a couple…
-
Relational and activity based identities
Read more: Relational and activity based identitiesI’m currently reading Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human by James Paul Gee (2017). In it, he talks about two types of identity (at least to the point that I’ve read so far). First is activity-based identity. These are the identities we have based about activities that we choose.…
-
Privilege and equity in health care
Read more: Privilege and equity in health careI shared the other day the idea the for the privileged equity feels like oppression. It occurred to me that this is in part why I am scared at the idea of moving back to Canada and relying on the Canadian healthcare system. The Canadian system is a good one. It is mostly equitable. It suffers…
-
Precision social media support – an #epatient example
Read more: Precision social media support – an #epatient exampleIn early January, I joined Christopher at Just Talking for a podcast. One of the topics that came up during the podcast was the role of social media (and in my case Facebook groups) as patient support when going through illness. I spoke of my experience with Facebook groups relating to my choices are breast…
-
To the privileged equality feels like oppression
Read more: To the privileged equality feels like oppression“The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.” (Freire, 2000*, p.57) I have found myself thinking about this a lot lately – I think because of what is happening in the US with politics and populism. There are many quotes within the book “Pedagogy of the…
-
Health Literacy repositioned
Read more: Health Literacy repositionedI recently read an article on health literacy by Uta Papen: Papen, U. (2009). Literacy, Learning and Health–A social practices view of health literacy. Literacy and Numeracy Studies: An international journal in the education and training of adults, 16(2-1), 19-34. Retrieved from https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/download/1275/1326. The dominant view is that health literacy is an ability possessed by individuals…
-
Experience, expression, and meaning making
Read more: Experience, expression, and meaning makingI’m finding myself in a bit of a challenging position right now. I don’t know if it is a funk – or just kind of stuck. Typically, when this happens I go for a nice long hike and sort it out while I walk and commune with nature. However, after recent toe surgery (which is…
-
Why I dislike rubrics in my classes
Read more: Why I dislike rubrics in my classesI teach in a M.Ed. in Instructional Design program, where my students are generally mid-career professionals. They are all in the program because they want to gain skills that will help them make the career transition to instructional design – or enhance their abilities in the current careers. Either way, they come to class motivated.…
-
Complexity, Complicated and Health Science
Read more: Complexity, Complicated and Health ScienceOne of the challenges I find with health science is that it assumes that health and the human body is something that is complicated, but not something that is complex. What I mean by this is a concept that is explained by Davis and Sumara (1997), where they describe how “complexity theory draw a distinction…
-
breast cancer bootcamp
Read more: breast cancer bootcampAt the BCC annual conference yesterday, one of the speakers, Dr. David Spiegel, mentioned that patients have much less anxiety if they take time at the beginning to make informed treatment decisions. One of the challenges that we run into when we are told we have cancer is the desire / fear / need to do…
-
Critical health literacy, statistics, and treatment decisions
Read more: Critical health literacy, statistics, and treatment decisionsI was asked to choose between ACT chemotherapy and TC chemotherapy. Both were shown to be as effective, so the decision was mine. In making the decision, I looked at the potential side effects of each, as well as what the standard of care would be in Canada. Further, I looked at the literature and…
-
Is it critical if you don’t also question the value?
Read more: Is it critical if you don’t also question the value?Thanks to Marie’s weekly round-up, I was lead to a post on Critical Health Literacy by the Breast Cancer Consortium. Initially, I really liked that they were tackling the idea of critical health literacy, but then as I read through the post I felt like something was off. I realized that they were defining critical…
-
Health literacy as a patients job
Read more: Health literacy as a patients jobAn article on Simplifying patient communication can lead to better health outcomes by Eve Becker, crossed my stream today. I was struck by this statement: “Enter the field of health literacy, which aims to help physicians increase patient communication, speak in plain language and write clear prescriptions with easy-to-understand instructions.” I found myself wondering why…
-
Blogs, Bikes, and Breast Cancer
Read more: Blogs, Bikes, and Breast CancerMany of my readers know that in a previous life – 9 years ago now – my husband and I took 16-months off and road our bikes around the world. It was this adventure where I started to blog seriously for the first time. It is also where the domain name Going East came from – we…
-
Empathy and suffering #digped
Read more: Empathy and suffering #digpedBefore vacation I attended digital pedagogy lab institute (DPLI) in Fredericksburg Virginia. I haven’t been able to write a summary blog post for the experience. It was not at all what I was expecting. I was thrilled to spend a week with Maha Bali and Kate Bowles, so really, I did not enter with any expectations…
-
Eclipses
Read more: EclipsesThey say that seeing a partial solar eclipse is nothing like seeing totality. xkcd sums it up nicely in this image: This was the start of our vacation. We had a crazy rush drive north to ensure we made it into the path of totality. We took a few pictures before totality, but when it…
-
Verisimilitude at #digped
Read more: Verisimilitude at #digpedValidity “means that a work seeks verisimilitude; it evokes in readers a feeling that the experience described is lifelike, believable, and possible, a feeling that what has been represented could be true” (Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, p.284) “Lie down on the bed, chest down with your breasts in the holes, hands above your head”…
-
Study idea: Comparing pt peer SE advice with care team SE advice in MBC pts
Read more: Study idea: Comparing pt peer SE advice with care team SE advice in MBC ptsWhile I was hiking yesterday I had a thought for a study I’d like to do – or at least research whether anyone else has already done it. Of course, I cannot even think about it until I’m finished with my dissertation research, but I thought I’d write it here so that I don’t forget, but…
-
Qualitative researchers – interrater reliability help wanted
Read more: Qualitative researchers – interrater reliability help wantedFriends, I’m looking for a few people family with qualitative research coding to do some interrater reliability for my dissertation. What this would involve is coding approximate 30 blog posts (links provided to specific posts) based upon the themes that I have identified, followed by a conversation with me about your rating experience. If you…
-
Survivor of the journey
Read more: Survivor of the journeyI struggle a little with my choice of words – in part because others are so challenged by it. I’ve talked about the battle metaphor and my challenge it with. Now I find myself reflecting on the words Survivor and Journey. I chose to identify as a breast cancer survivor. I use the term survivor for…
-
Care perspective versus Illness perspective
Read more: Care perspective versus Illness perspectiveI have been thinking a lot lately about perspectives – struggling really – trying to figure out where my thoughts and ideas fit within the systems that I’m studying. One challenge that I kept running into was that I am reading (literature reviewing) a lot of information provided from a care perspective – that is…
-
Not fighting a battle – the closure to the narrative is death itself
Read more: Not fighting a battle – the closure to the narrative is death itselfRecently, I read a book chapter by Arthur Frank (2009) titled “The necessity and dangers of illness narratives, especially at the end of life”. It got me thinking. One of the pet peeves among many cancer bloggers as well as those with metastatic breast cancer is cancer as a war metaphor – that is, the…
-
Who are the experts? #hcsm #MedTech #edTech
Read more: Who are the experts? #hcsm #MedTech #edTechI am finding a contradiction between my feedback about Ed Tech and my feedback about Med Tech. In the Ed Tech space, I find that the experts in education are often missing. Too often, people feel like that because they have been students, they understand the problems of education – and therefore, they are qualified…
-
Giving voice and face to the illness experience
Read more: Giving voice and face to the illness experienceThe other day I had the opportunity to have a conversation with the lovely Bonni Stachowiak for her podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. In the podcast, I talk about my experience with the intersectional identity of educational researcher, blogger, and breast cancer patient. You can download and listen to the podcast from this link: http://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/giving-voice-face-illness-experience/.
-
Remission society and mourning my fantasy future
Read more: Remission society and mourning my fantasy futureI apologies to those who read all my blogs, as I am cross posting this. I’d love to hear answers from the various readers of my different blogs. I want to connect two ideas: the idea of remission society as described by Arthur Frank (1995), and the concept of the fantasy future that I learned while…
-
Closed open research
Read more: Closed open researchI find it odd/annoying when I’m asked to participate in a research study about open practice, then the consent form for the study says that all identifying information will be removed and my contribution will be anonymous. To me this is a huge contradiction. The study is looking at practices that I do in the open,…
