Privacy event at Dal: Dalhousie University hosted a Data Privacy Day event on January 28. The day featured a variety of speakers urging attendees to use resources available for self-education on privacy law and avoiding privacy threats. Dwight Fisher, Dal's CIO, discussed the privacy implications of using personal data to customize student learning. Several other speakers covered a wide breadth of data privacy issues. Data Privacy Day
Crowdvoting for CANHEIT: The CANHEIT organization team has taken an innovative approach to selecting the program for this year's conference. They are asking for potential attendees to vote for the sessions they are interested in attending. Crowdvoting will help the program evaluation committee decide which presentations and topic areas will be featured and program selections will be announced in March. CANHEIT voting
More crowdvoting and more Dal: The Dalhousie Student Union has created a Soapbox website designed for students to submit their suggestions for improving life at Dal and to vote for, or against them. Since the site was launched in the fall, students have submitted 244 ideas to the website and voted almost 10,000 times. To date, 43 of the ideas have been officially responded to, with more than a dozen fully implemented. Soapbox site
Maximizing Moodle: Vancouver Community College instructors have expanded Moodle to improve the classroom experience for instructors and students. The College has seen significant student outcome improvements and plans to continue to improve the program. Moodle @ VCC
The Year in Review: The University of Saskatchewan's Information and Communications Technology department has produced an wonderful summary of its accomplishments in the past year: ICT Summary
Crowdvoting for CANHEIT: The CANHEIT organization team has taken an innovative approach to selecting the program for this year's conference. They are asking for potential attendees to vote for the sessions they are interested in attending. Crowdvoting will help the program evaluation committee decide which presentations and topic areas will be featured and program selections will be announced in March. CANHEIT voting
More crowdvoting and more Dal: The Dalhousie Student Union has created a Soapbox website designed for students to submit their suggestions for improving life at Dal and to vote for, or against them. Since the site was launched in the fall, students have submitted 244 ideas to the website and voted almost 10,000 times. To date, 43 of the ideas have been officially responded to, with more than a dozen fully implemented. Soapbox site
Maximizing Moodle: Vancouver Community College instructors have expanded Moodle to improve the classroom experience for instructors and students. The College has seen significant student outcome improvements and plans to continue to improve the program. Moodle @ VCC
The Year in Review: The University of Saskatchewan's Information and Communications Technology department has produced an wonderful summary of its accomplishments in the past year: ICT Summary
