Native Land
Native Land is an online, interactive map that maps out the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples all over the world, specifically in the Americas, Northern Europe and Austronesia. Its “About” page states that it was created in 2015 by a non-Indigenous man named from the Okanagan named Victor Temprano. Right now, Native Land is run […]
EtherDraw
EtherDraw is an open-source drawing application created by Etherpad in 2015. It is a part of the Sandstorm Open ETC apps project, which is a collection of open-source applications hosted within Canada (thereby following FIPPA guidelines), geared towards educators and students. Ether Draw can be used by students and teachers to draw, paint or write […]
Sharing is caring: Open Ed Resources benefit the profession
While the title of this post may sound a bit cheesy, I am quite serious in saying that, as educators, we are in a sharing and caring profession and one way we show this care is by freely and openly sharing teaching resources we have created or curated. Did you know that contributing to the […]
Learning Transformed Grant 2020-2021: Diminishing the equity gap in BEd practicum experiences
This project is made possible with generous funding from the Dean of Education via a Learning Transformed Grant (March 2020) to support the Faculty’s Strategic plan 2019 – 2024 Project Title: Diminishing the equity gap for rural school associates, faculty advisors, and teacher candidates Project Team: Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager, Teacher Education Dr. Leyton […]
Scrumblr – OpenEd App
Scrumblr is a visual note board. It is one of a suite of browser based apps available through the Open Ed Project. All apps in this project are open source. The instance of the app we use is within ‘Sandcats’ a Canadian housed server that is part of the Open Ed Project. All class response […]
