Workshops, presentations and publications

2024

• Open Education as a Catalyst: Bridging the Digital Literacy Gap in Higher Education (November 2024)
• OE Global Open Education Awards adjudication committee

2023

• We Shared Some Open EdTech. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! with Anne-Marie Scott, FOSSY Conference (July 2023)
• What is your Digital Superpower? co-presenter with Tracy Roberts, BCNET Connect Conference (April 2023)
• Program Committee (Reviewer) Open Education Global Conference
• OE Global Open Education Awards adjudication committee
• Expert Panelist, 2023 EDUCAUSE Teaching & Learning Horizon Report

2022

• Creating Inclusive, Diverse & Culturally-relevant OER with Josie Gray and Chanelle Tye, Open Education Conference (October 2022)
• OE Global Open Education Awards adjudication committee

2021

• Practice Makes Perfect! Supporting the Development of H5P Practice Activities in Pressbooks webinar panel discussion with Alan Levine, Brenna-Clarke Gray and Simon Lolliot, Cascadia Open Education Summit (April 2021)
• 25 Years of Ed Tech: Giving Voice & Conversation to the Community or That Open Resource Sure Has Legs! webinar with Laura Pasquini & Martin Weller, OERxDomains21 (April 2021)

2020

• Cooking with H5P webinar with Alan Levine & Ian Linkletter, ETUG (October 2020)
• “But I’ve Never Taken an Online Course Before!” webinar, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria (June 2020)
• Online Learning Basics for Trades Instructors, webinar, BCcampus (May 2020)
• Guest post: Contesting Open Spaces, OER20 Conference, Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) (January 2020)
• Program Committee (Reviewer) 2020 OTESSA Conference
• Program Committee Member (Reviewer) 2020 Festival of Learning
• Program Committee Member (Reviewer) OER20 Conference
• Program Committee (Reviewer) 2021 EDUCAUSE ELI Conference

2019

• Program Committee (Reviewer) EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
• Feature Article: Digital fluency vs. Digital literacy (2019) Connections, Schools Catalogue Information Services (SCIS), Pg 4, Issue 11, Term 4
• OpenETC: Where we’ve been & where we’re going, with Brian Lamb, Grant Potter, Tannis Morgan, ETUG (June 2019)
• Who is ETUG? You are ETUG: Results from the 25th anniversary ETUG Member Survey, with Troy Welch, Bonnie Johnson, ETUG (June 2019)
• 2019 ETUG Member Survey (Report), co-author with Troy Welch and Bonnie Johnson, (May 2019)
• Blackboard Ally Pilot Project (Report), BCcampus (March 2019)
• Program Committee, 2019 ETUG Conference

2018

• When I Grow Up I Want to be a Learning Technologist (said no child ever), Gasta (lightening) talk, 2018 ALT Conference, Manchester, UK (September 2018)
• The Innovators: How open educators are using open technology to create great learning experiences, BCNET Conference (April 2018)
• PressBooks: Putting the Press back into WordPress. PressEd Twitter conference, co-presentation with Lucas Wright (March 2018)
• Program Committee, 2018 ETUG Conference
• Program Committee, 2018 BCNET Conference

2017

• How to Build an Open Textbook (co-facilitated with Amanda Coolidge). Digital Pedagogy Symposium, University of Victoria. (May, 2017)
• Open Technology: The Third Pillar of Open Education. Kwantlen Polytechnic University. (March 2017)
• Working with OER, Open Education Ontario (March 2017)
• NGDLE: From Monolithic to Disaggregation with Marianne Schroeder (UBC) & Maureen Wideman (UFV) BCNET Conference (April 2017)
• Program Committee, 2017 BCNET Conference

2016

• Workshop: Out of the File Drawer and into the Real World: Getting your students writing for Wikipedia with Jami Mathewson, Rosie Redfield and Judy Chan, Festival of Learning (June 2016)
• Expanding the Effective Use of Video at BC Institutions with Julian Prior, Heidi Mede, Gina Bennett & Gordon Jang, Festival of Learning (2016)
• Workshop: BC Open Education Technology Collaborative with Brian Lamb, Tannis Morgan, and Valerie Irvine, Festival of Learning (2016)
• EdTech: BCcampus or BCNET? with Dean Crawford, BCNET Conference (April, 2016)
• Case Study: The BC Open Textbook Project, OpenEdOz, Australia Government Office for Learning & Technology (February 2016)

2015

• Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Textbooks and OER with Rajiv Jianghiani, Beck Pitt, Cristina Hendricks, Open Education Conference (2015)
• You Built a Textbook in How Many Days???!?? with Gil Green (UBC) and Barbara Ruhling (Book Sprints), Open Education Conference (2015)
• Open for Collaboration: is it time for Canada to implement a unified open strategy for higher education? Public Forum, UBC/SFU Open Access Week (October 2015)
• Webinar, eCampus Mantioba, Working Together for Students: Open Textbook Collaboration between BC and Manitoba (October, 2015)
• Guest Lecture, MALAT Program, Royal Roads University (July 2015)
• You Built a Textbook in How Many Days???? with Gil Green (UBC) and Barbara Ruhling (Book Sprints), 2015 Open Textbook Summit (June 2015)
• Guest Lecture, OLTD course with Dr. Alec Couros, Vancouver Island University (May 2015)
• Plenary Presentation,Thompson Rivers University Online Faculty Meeting (May, 2015)
• Finding and Using OER, faculty workshop, Thompson Rivers University (May 2015)
• Beyond Free, BCNet Annual Conference (April, 2015)
• Exploring Open Educational Resources, 2 week online course for the Commonwealth of Learning and British Columbia Ministry of Education (April 2015)
• The BC Open Textbook Project, Selkirk College Discovery Days (February 2015)
• The BC Open Textbook Project,  Council of Atlantic University Libraries (CAUL-CBUA) (February 2015)
• Adopting Open Textbooks, 4 week online course developed and co-facilitated with Amanda Coolidge and Lauri Aesoph (January-February, 2015)
• Beyond Free, Vancouver Island University (January 2015)
• Beyond Free, UNBC virtual presentation (January 2015)
• Program Committee Lead, 2015 Open Education Conference

2014

• Open Tools for Open Publishing, co-presentation with Brad Payne, OpenEd 2014 (November 2014)
• The Role of Librarians at a BookSprint (with Erin Fields, UBC Libraries), BCOER Librarians Group (October 2014)
• Beyond Free, How Open Textbooks Can Improve Learning, Building Community and Empower Faculty, COHERE Conference (October 2014)
• BC Open Textbook Project, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Open Access Week, (October 2014)
• Geography Open Textbook Sprint, co-facilitation with BookSprints & Amanda Coolidge (June 2014)
• One Button Publishing, co-presentation with Brad Payne, WordPress in Higher Education conference (May 2014)
• One Button Publishing co-presentation with Brad Payne, BCNet Conference (April 2014)
• Open Education Panel, with Dr. Valerie Irvine, Dr. George Veletsianos, Brian Lamb and Novak Rogic, BCNet Conference (April 2014)
• BC Open Textbook Project: Technology co-presentation with Brad Payne, Open Textbook Summit (April 2014)

2013

• Beyond Free, The BC Open Textbook Project, BCAAT JAM Conference (November, 2013)
• The BC Open Textbook Project, CCCOER (October 2013)
• Facilitator & course developer, Adopting Open Textbooks 4 week open online course (Sept-Oct 2013)
• Moodle, OER and Open Textbooks Lambda Solutions Moodle Users Group (June 19, 2013) video of presentation
• BC Open Textbook Project ETUG workshop (June 6, 2013)
• Creative Commons and Open Textbooks, Camosun College Open Textbook Workshop (May 27, 2013)
• Into the Great Wide Open Tourism Educators of Canada conference (May 9, 2013).
• OER and Open Textbooks Douglas College (April 29, 2013)

2012

• How important is Twitter in your Personal Learning Network? eLearn magazine, September, 2012
• A Tale of 2 Moodle Upgrades, presentation at IT4BC conference, Vancouver, June 2012
• Using the power of networks to solve real world problems (virtual session), BC ETUG, April, 2012

2011

• Let the NetWork Broadcast Educators Association of Canada Conference (May 28, 2011)
• I’m having a tasty breakfast of learning Walls Optional Conference, Camosun College (May 3, 2011)
• Creating a YouTube Playlist, The Horizon Newsletter, Issue 20, January 2011

2010

• Integrating Technology Tools: A Practical and Peer to Peer View Justice Institute of BC (June 17, 2010)
• WordCamp EDU: Workshop at 2010 ETUG conference (June 7 & 8, 2010)

2009

• Designing Training workshop, co-facilitated with Tyler Krimmel, George Brown College (November, 2009)
• Social Networks & the PLN: Presentation to Applied Communication Students, Camosun College (October, 2009)
• EdTech Bootcamp (Walls Optional, May 1, 2009)
• YouTube is the new Distribution Channel: Presentation to Applied Communication Students, Camosun College (February, 2009)

2008

• MyWeb: Netvibes and your Personal Start Page (Walls Optional, May 6, 2008)

2007

• Desire2Learn: Early Lessons Learned: Spring 2007 ETUG conference (May, 2007)