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About That Poster Presentation at AECT 2019
If you had read my previous post, you’d know I was heading to Las Vegas to meet up with my virtual friend and collaborator at AECT 2019. And we met! It was unreal and real, to us, and to those who had heard of our story in my previous post. At the poster gallery walk, some folks seemed more incredulous of our partnership across space and time (without having met at all in person) than they were of our poster. Of course, the poster received a lot of traction…
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Collaborating on an AECT Presentation Across Time and Space
This will be the first of a series of blogposts that I will be writing to document and reflect on my collaboration with a virtual friend from Sweden. We will be meeting in person for the first time at the 2019 AECT International Convention. This convention will also be my first trip back to an AECT conference since graduate school. So many firsts! I’m as thrilled as a puppy getting his favorite treat! Tanya O’Reilly (@TenaciousTan) and I have known each other since late 2014 or early 2015 (we both…
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SXSWEDU 2019 Nuggets
I had the privilege to attend SXSWEDU again this year. Not prepared for the atypical chilly Austin weather, I let it deter me from participating in more events than I would have liked to — those that involved outdoor walking trips. Having one SXSWEDU attendance under my belt, I felt less stressed about not missing any one of the gazillion sessions. I attend SXSWEDU because of its focus on innovations and its emphasis on educators making a positive difference in communities. I see myself as both a designer AND a…
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Oct 2018 PADLA Meeting Notes: Case Studies and New Collaborative Technologies
I signed up for my first Pennsylvania Delaware New Jersey Distance Learning Association, PADLA, professional development event at Norristown, PA, at the Corbett Experience Center, a beautifully renovated 1700’s mill. October 11, 2018 came soon enough. The heavy rain made the drive to the Corbett Experience Center a hairy experience; the Center was about 1.5 hours away. But I was there to learn, and according to the information webpage, from a mix of “Corporate, Non-Profit, K-12 and Higher Ed professionals” about the issues and technological/pedagogical advances that could enhance human performance in…
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Arts-Based Research, Post Qualitative Deleuzian Inquiry, and Other Vignettes from ICQI 2018
[Marj (aka Marjorie DeVault) was my dissertation supervisor.] Dear Marj, I attended my first International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry last week. It’s been a while, you know, since you last told me that ICQI takes place right at my doorstep, on my campus. I finally took the plunge and attended some sessions while juggling a busy work schedule. The opening keynote was a call to action; a call to resist and experiment using critical qualitative inquiry in these troubled times. Bronwyn Davies and Karen Staller spoke eloquently about the “spectacle” we…
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Wanna Go to SXSWEDU 2019?
With a click of the mouse, I selected the last radio button on the SXSWEDU 2018 evaluation form and hit “Submit.” The conference evaluation form was merrily on its way to the organizers. There were the usual questions about takeaways, the learning experience, about what would make me want to go back again, and what would stop me from doing so. I would go to SXSWEDU again because … The values of SXSWEDU resonate with the core of who I am. I value access and equity, social justice, arts for learning and…
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SXSWEDU 2018: Building a Higher Ed Movement
[Me: Scrolling through the sessions I had selected on my conference mobile app] There is a pattern in the things I was interested in. I had checked a lot of sessions that dealt with narrowing inequity and addressing social injustice on My Favorites list. And my favoritest of favorites is the one by the President of Paul Quinn College, Michael Sorrell. He delivered a moving keynote address that wrenched my gut. Live your life wisely; use your education and experience to fight for a cause bigger than yourself.” So-o-o, Yin, what are you doing to bring…
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SXSWEDU 2018: Things I Remember
Check out the following padlet for things I learned at the conference. Padlet URL: https://padlet.com/ywbkreher/6qk74qw8wvbb
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SXSWEDU 2018: Navigating the Conference
Campfires, Future20s, Innovation Hub, Meetups, Mentors, Performances, Policy Forums. I had to learn a whole new language before I could assimilate into this new learning ecosystem. #Lesson1 Learning the conference lingo. #SXSWedu pic.twitter.com/TtSRyw0pvw — Yin Wah Kreher (@yinbk) March 4, 2018 The mobile app came in useful but just four days back from Singapore before landing in Austin, jetlagged me wasn’t adequately prepared to navigate a new conference. No app could make up for the work I hadn’t put in to plan my learning in advance. Line up for school. #Lesson2 I learned that many (some?…
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Get me to OLC Innovate 2018 on Time!
The OLC Innovate 2018 Call for Proposal deadline is this Wednesday November 1. I’m rushing to get my proposal written with a graduate assistant this weekend. Doing this reminds me of my virtual participation this year via Virtually Connecting. I had not blogged about it, but it is a moment worthy of cherishing. In 2017, I wasn’t able to be in New Orleans because I had just returned from a Coursera Partners’ Conference. I wrote a bit about my virtual session and left it at that. When I received a…
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MOOC Hype and the Coursera Partners’ Conference 2017
I was fortunate to get to attend a conference for Coursera partners, of which my institution is one, a trailblazing one. Apparently, as my director said, what we are doing at our unit is new and unheard of to many participants. In fact, I shared at work that I was awed by the attention we were getting. With 24 (or 25?) of us attending, we were represented at a significant number of breakout sessions. There were several big moments for us; but for me, the two major ones were first,…
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Virtually Connecting Goes to HERDSA 2016
Note: I had fun writing this post with Wendy Taleo, who hosted the Virtually Connecting session. Plaits. (14 Dec 2012). “Fremantle Horizon.” Online image, Flickr. Retrieved 12 July 2016. A ping from Wendy Taleo drew me out of my teaching-grading cave to the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference this Wednesday, July 6, also a Hari Raya Puasa public holiday in Singapore. Though Fremantle, Perth (Western Australia) might be closer to me than say, an American conference, work commitments still hold me and many others…
