sent out for JUNE - note from chair

This has been another great year for etug - on behalf of the Steering Committee (link to sc page), I want to thank everyone who has attended our events (f2f and online), tweeted, blogged, tagged, and shared - this community thrives because of you!

We are at the point in the year where we're looking back and looking ahead, and I wanted to share some of that with you in our last newsletter before we all race off for summer - here are some of the highlights from the past year:

we had 2 great f2f events - in October, we had a 2-day workshop at SFU downtown on Learning Design with special guest, Grainne Conole who taught us about the tool "Cloudworks". Then in June, we gathered at UVic for a great event, "3 Cups of T: Teaching, Technology & Transformation". This event was a huge success and we were pleased to provide live web streaming of many of the sessions. The finale (technology: revolution or evolution?) was a spiritied debate between the green and orange teams - a great time was had by all. In addition to the web streaming, we also tried out Crowdvine as a way to support organizing and connecting among conference organizers, presenters, and participants before, during, and after the event.

the Steering Committee works very hard behind the scene to make these events happen. As a group, we meet monthly in Elluminate to move things forward, including the montly newsletter you receive by email

We were delighted to present this year's Innovation Award to SPARCS!

We experiemented with a new type of Award (People's Choice), which didn't seem to catch the interest of the etug membership, so we let it go and will be reviewing our current Innovation Award process and criteria. We are always seeking ways to celebrate the great work going on in ed tech in BC, and we want to make sure that our awards program (which has been running for over a decade) remains relevant and current. SCETUG members Amanda Coolidge, Gina Bennett and Stephanie Chu will be taking this on, so you can expect to see something new for our awards program this fall.

this year we started a new series of "e-Vents" - one hour online sessions on high interest topics to the etug community. Gina Bennett and I co-facilitated a session on jazzing up online introductory posts, which was well attended, and so we plan to do more - got a topic idea? Better yet, want to partner with us? Let us know!

Your hardworking Steering Committee will be meeting in the fall to plan the year ahead - here's a sneak peek at what we have in mind for 2010-2011

• 2 f2f events - Fall 2010 in the Lower mainland and Spring (June) 2011 outside of the lower mainland (maybe Prince George?!)
• online events
• launch new etug web community

This is a place to work on the ETUG News - Current Draft version May News to go out on broadcast May 26th
- final version of the March newsletter
All past newsletters

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ETUG News is a monthly newsletter highlighting events and activities of interest to ETUG members. Members of the Steering Committee for ETUG (SCETUG) are contributors to this newsletter.

2010 Innovation Awards in Educational Technology

Congratulations to The SPARCS Program, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria(more info to come)

ETUG Spring Workshop at the University of Victoria

ETUG Spring workshop "3 Cups of T: Teaching, Technology and Transformation" ... (summary)

Videos, blog posts, and presentation slides from the workshop are tagged 'etugspring2010' in the Learn Together Collaboratory.

Upcoming Events

SCoPE Activities

Shared Thinking: June 23-July 2, 2010
How can we make group thinking visible? What is the value for learning, reflection, and community participation? During this 10-day seminar Nicholas Bowskill will introduce us to the research and development work on the Shared Thinking project through University of Glasgow.

About ETUG

ETUG is a community of BC post-secondary educational practitioners focused on the ways in which learning and teaching can be enhanced through technology.
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Contributors to this issue: Leva Lee, Sylvia Currie