Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University of Western Ontario - London, ON Canada
Areas of Concentration:
- Media, Information & Technoculture [about]
- Economics [about]

Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist (ACHDS)
Exam 9L0-401: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4 [about]

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Exam 070-270: Microsoft Windows XP Professional: Installing, Configuring, and Administering [about]

Moving from Peer to Leader 1:
Practical Tools for First Time Managers and Supervisors
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC Canada
Human Resources - Organizational Development & Learning [about]

Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC Canada
Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth [about]

Instructional Design & Learning Technology Workshop
University of Waterloo - Waterloo, ON Canada
Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) [about]

BbWorld '07 (July 2007)
Facilitated a pre-conference workshop on using Web 2.0 technologies in your WebCT/Vista course. Here's the session's description:

This session you will see how non-programmers like you can easily use your Blackboard Learning System – Vista or CE License as a launching pad to open and expand your course to what the ‘net can offer. By using tags and RSS, you will see how easy it is to copy and paste a few lines of text and incorporate dynamic content from free web services. You will also learn how you and your students can continually contribute to your online environment by sharing progress on group projects (Twitter), adding valuable resources (del.icio.us), commenting on photos (using Flickr) – all inside your course.

Also co-presented a session on UBC's Professional Development Plan to Support a Vista Migration. Here is that description:

The University of British Columbia launched a migration project in September 2006, moving the campus in stages from the Blackboard Learning System – CE Enterprise License (Release 4.1) to the Blackboard Learning System – Vista Enterprise License (Release 4). Success of the ongoing migration depended on two key objectives: engaging the teaching and learning community in a diverse professional development program and weaving pedagogical approaches into technology training. Presenters will detail the important ingredients for the success of their program and demonstrate selected resources. [more]

Canadian e-Learning Conference (June 2007)
Co-facilitated a hands-on Vista session. Here's the description:

Vista provides more functional tools that provide an overall improved online experience to previous versions of WebCT. To highlight key differences, the session will open with a demo of the same course in both Vista & WebCT CE 4. In the hands-on portion of the workshop, you will gain a basic understanding of Vista’s tools and components. You will experience an online course as a student and as an instructor/designer while exploring the fundamentals needed to get you started! [about]

ETUG Spring Workshop 2007 (May 2007)
Co-facilitated a hands-on Vista Quickstart session. This gave participants a basic understanding of Vista’s tools and components.

WebCT !MPACT 2006 8th Annual WebCT User Conference (July 2006)
Had the opportunity to attend hands-on and seminar-style pre-conference workshops, visit technology partners in the exhibit hall, and network with peers. [about]

5th Sakai Conference (May/June 2006)
Experienced an increasing number of campus production and pilot implementations of Sakai and a number of new contributions, tools and partnerships. [about]

UBC Learning Conference (May 2006)
A forum for educators to interact and share ideas and approaches to teaching and learning. The conference was an opportunity to discover resources, discuss challenges, demonstrate successes, and learn from the work of colleagues. [about]

Canadian WebCT Users' Conference (June 2005)
Networked with Canadian colleagues, to see what was new with WebCT, and to discuss innovative ideas and best practices for teaching and learning online. [about]

PHP & Open Source Security Conference (June 2005)
Topics focused around security within the PHP and Open Source environment. [about]

Northern Voice (February 2005 & February 2006)
Northern Voice was a community-based weblogging and personal publishing conference that took place at UBC’s downtown campus. [about]