Kyle Mackie

@kylemackie
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he/him. Education, Community, Technology, Digital Identities, Learning Environments, Accessibility & Inclusive Design...running, cycling, bread and bowls and beer….
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As the keynote speakers underscore: "We don't want to replace expensive, static patriarchal textbooks with *free* static and patriarchal textbooks" #OpenEd24
great start (virtually, for me) to the Open Education #OpenEd24 conference. thanks to James Glapa-Grossklag & Joy Shoemate for an inspiring start -- particularly sharing ideas for resistance and Open for Antiracism resources https://www.cccoer.org/ofar/
#openeducation
Open For Antiracism Program

The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in higher education. In the summer of 2020, many institutions published statements decrying racism, calling for change, and putting equity into t

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Will you be joining us at #OpenEd24 tomorrow? Make sure your experience runs smoothly by reading through the Attendee Guide! ✨ https://openeducationconference.org/news/2024-attendee-guide
2024 Attendee Guide — Open Education Conference

The 2024 Open Education Conference is almost here! Here is a guide with everything attendees need to know to access the conference and maximize your experience. Watch your registered email address for more updates, and you can always reach us at [email protected] ! ABOUT THE CON

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Admittedly, it's currently held together with duct tape and good intentions. Arguably, H5P is probably not the ideal solution here, ditto for Google tools. Someone could surely improve upon this idea if they wanted to.

proof of concept, work in progress "Random Reflective Prompt Generator" for people to write or record based on random prompts and time limits.

https://h5pstudio.ecampusontario.ca/content/60849

Built in #h5p, with a google apps script pulling content every 5 minutes from a google sheet into a google slides presentation, and behind that the prompts are generated by ChatGPT. The topic is intentions for AI use, but the idea could be useful for any audience or topic.

Random AI reflective prompt generator | eCampusOntario H5P Studio

Just a handful of tickets left for this. Go get 'em, Guelph: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guelph-film-screening-the-engine-inside-tickets-748672368207
Guelph Film Screening: The Engine Inside

Guelph film screening of The Engine Inside - a new feature-length documentary that reveals the power of the bicycle to change the world.

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#tess2023...anyone out there?
The Rheostatics last night @ the Horseshoe Tavern. Did not disappoint!

Another question regarding the Fediverse: "Would politicians, press, higher learning, celebrities actually ever be bothered to self-host an instance and pay someone to maintain it?"

Again, Automattic answers that question.

What do all those institutions use for their websites? Self-hosted WordPress sites.

Who runs it? Someone they pay.

Self-hosting and maintenance can not only be normalized -- people would probably be happy to do it.