I've spent a couple of hours trying to pull together the things that I found interesting or enlightening at the recent eLearning Conference (CeLC2009) at UBC. Each time I review my notes or follow the links provided by presenters, I find yet another area I want to read and reflect on, or that I want to test for potential use with instructors at Yukon College.

Here's some of additions to my personal learning list:

From Barbara Ganley's metaphor of the Russian suitcase (unpacking and reflecting on what you leave behind and what you're going towards)

(a paraphrase of what she said) The immigrants would place their suitcase on the threshold of the place they were leaving and look back and fill themselves with the memories and the lessons they had learned and reflect on why they were leaving

I poked around on the Internet and found that she uses it in a workshop to help teachers open their closed classrooms - need to review her outline to see if some of it would help my instructors move beyond lecturing and tests   http://bgblogging.com/nitle-workshop/

And UBC's attempt to create wiki articles on Latin American literature for Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem