I uploaded the video to my daughter's
site and when I tried embedding it, I lost everything I had written. Arghh!
(Edited by Sylvia Currie - original submission Saturday, 30 May 2009, 03:32 PM)
Deirdre Bonnycastle
Posts made by Deirdre Bonnycastle
I'm starting this session a week late but here goes:
What is your criteria for teaching and learning based on your discipline and your preferred teaching style?
1. Student centered - What does the student need to learn. Medicine has very clear objectives but too often we focus on teaching in preordained time slots as opposed to learning to meet the objectives.
2. Active/Interactive - How do you engage them physically, mentally and collaboratively in learning X. Medicine lends itself to multimodal/concrete learning and I am multimodal/abstract in my teaching so I have to adjust.
What is your experience of being in front of the camera?
moderate in front, quite a bit behind the camera
How do you feel when you see yourself on video?
Fat - personally
OK-professionally I like my voice
What are the challenges for you in being a really effective online teacher/facilitator?
Not having enough experience as a facilitator as opposed to course developer where my experience is extensive.
What’s holding you back?
opportunity and time
What skills would you like to develop as far as online delivery goes?
I hate talking head video so I would have to say finding ways to use video more interactively or as a story telling medium.
Lastly, who am I? Deirdre Bonnycastle, Faculty Development University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine. Just finished this video website.
What is your criteria for teaching and learning based on your discipline and your preferred teaching style?
1. Student centered - What does the student need to learn. Medicine has very clear objectives but too often we focus on teaching in preordained time slots as opposed to learning to meet the objectives.
2. Active/Interactive - How do you engage them physically, mentally and collaboratively in learning X. Medicine lends itself to multimodal/concrete learning and I am multimodal/abstract in my teaching so I have to adjust.
What is your experience of being in front of the camera?
moderate in front, quite a bit behind the camera
How do you feel when you see yourself on video?
Fat - personally
OK-professionally I like my voice
What are the challenges for you in being a really effective online teacher/facilitator?
Not having enough experience as a facilitator as opposed to course developer where my experience is extensive.
What’s holding you back?
opportunity and time
What skills would you like to develop as far as online delivery goes?
I hate talking head video so I would have to say finding ways to use video more interactively or as a story telling medium.
Lastly, who am I? Deirdre Bonnycastle, Faculty Development University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine. Just finished this video website.
1. I am a lifelong informal learner because I'm highly visual. Few universities would provide me with the approach I need to learn and my career advancement has been stymied by not doing a PhD even though I perform at that level because of what I learned informally. Most of the time, I just ignore the Catch 22 and get on with changing university teaching one minute step at a time. 
2. The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology implemented a process of reviewing informal learning (PLAR) as credits for their certificate programs several years ago. It meant submitting a portfolio of your work, sometimes writing an exam in areas that required exams for licensing and having a supervisor sign off on your level of expertise. It was very expensive but saved older workers going back to school.
2. The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology implemented a process of reviewing informal learning (PLAR) as credits for their certificate programs several years ago. It meant submitting a portfolio of your work, sometimes writing an exam in areas that required exams for licensing and having a supervisor sign off on your level of expertise. It was very expensive but saved older workers going back to school.