Critters – the Citizen Science Platform
My original concept is a platform that will make citizen science more readily available for not-for-profits and the public. I am pitching it to a corporate sponsor, something like a auto company or other large entity that might need a bit of “greening.” Some of this is imaginary, of course, since I don’t have any […]
Re-Post from Sept. 30. Gideon Stein, Lightsail.
Gideon Stein, Founder and CEO, LightSail LightSail seeks to engage readers in K-12 and to accelerate literacy growth with a tablet-based approach that combines multiple features for both student and teacher. LightSail has over 80,000 popular titles in its library, and each reader has access to a personalized library based on his or her reading […]
Week 12 -Activity 3. How to Work with Developers
This is my first attempt to make an infographic – it seems pretty basic compared to some! It was a good exercise, as I expect it is a skill I will need to develop. I used Piktochart to create a basic flow chart for working with a software developer. It was quite easy, if occasionally […]
Week 9 – Activity 3
I was interested to see such a low score on the “provides assessment and evaluation” criteria. In our group we have discussed formative assessment apps as a possible topic as there a quite a few out there. With the advent of big data and ever broader analytics, I expect the technology for assessment is going […]
Safer Ocean Systems, Nanaimo BC
Safer Ocean Systems (“SOS”) is one of several providers of Transport Canada approved marine safety and maritime operations courses on Vancouver Island. Their courses are all provided face-to-face, which is mandated by Transport Canada at this point—it avoids the problem of someone “sharing their password” to have someone else do the work. Most of their […]
Analyst Report – Citizen Science
Hi Everyone, I went a bit of a different direction and evaluated a part of the non-profit sector involving citizen science applications. I approached it essentially as if I was advising a corporate donor of some sort . In terms of reflections, I found this to be a difficult approach. First it is rather […]
LightSail-Gideon Stein
Gideon Stein, Founder and CEO, LightSail LightSail seeks to engage readers in K-12 and to accelerate literacy growth with a tablet-based approach that combines multiple features for both student and teacher. LightSail has over 80,000 popular titles in its library, and each reader has access to a personalized library based on his or […]
More Ideas for Opportunity Activation
Hi everyone, This summer I spent some time helping a non-profit trying to do some capacity building–only to find there is very little support out there for a non-profit to do so. In any event, while much of my research was around grants, here are two more potentially helpful sites: Charity Village: as it sounds, […]
Hello from Courtenay!
I just starting the program and am very excited, though a bit nervous to be starting with two electives. Briefly, I completed my degrees in English and Law at UBC and practiced law for a little while before happily ending up in adult education. I taught at private colleges for 15 years, spending the last […]