Inktober: “Cruel” experience
Inktober is fantastic! I’m enjoying the heck out of drawing to a new word every day and seeing what my friends and the world comes up with! Today’s prompt was… Read more »
What is the deepest need for those you serve?
Today in a global gathering of Liberating Structures folks, we were discussing the question, What is the deepest need for the people you serve? I work in higher education, and… Read more »
Failing to address students’ prior knowledge feels bad
Today the BCcampus Online book club was talking about Chapter 1 of How Learning Works, which is about students’ prior knowledge. Some colleagues shared stories illustrating how instructors’ failure to… Read more »
Two Essential (Learning) Design Questions
In May, we were extremely grateful for Monique Gray Smith’s wonderful closing keynote at the 2018 Festival of Learning. Her talk had us thinking, laughing, crying, and on our feet applauding folks… Read more »
Learning Design Sprint inspired by Google and fuelled by Liberating Structures
I have tried this out a couple times now, and it seems to work well for those new to designing adult learning. Here is the general… Read more »
GR World Cafe – process for a team
Recently I worked with a team (me, Cathy, Colleen, Sharlot) to do graphic recording (GR) for a World Cafe. They had all taken a GR 101 course with me, and this seemed… Read more »
GR @ World Cafe – Team work required!
I find solo graphic recording for World Cafe challenging. The way content comes in (all at once, not live/spoken but rather in text/on sticky notes, in 3 waves, 15 min apart). Also,… Read more »
SKiP: Drawing = Thinking
I had the pleasure recently to attend and present at the first-and-hopefully-now-annual Sketching in Practice Symposium (#SKiP16). There was much to love! A big theme that kept coming up was drawing as… Read more »