Adam Lossing - Musings of a Digital Nomad

Comments from a survey of participants: "Hearing about students' experience with open education practices at JIBC and especially Adam's account of his experience with developing a new resource (what was involved, benefits over commercially available resources etc.)."

Problem : When my company Nomadic searched for a learning record store (LRS) in Canada, there were was only one discoverable in a web search. Solution : Nomadic has one of the first LRSs mounted on a Canadian server.

View eBook Problem : Textbooks for the Fire Service are almost entirely focused on systems and methodologies rooted in the United States. They are also very expensive and change editions, creating work in the way of course refreshes to update page references. Solution : Develop an eBook off of the Pressbooks platform which allows the course text to be a multimedia living document that students can author content for.

Problem: An expensive fire flow path prop was not getting used enough. Solution: Create annotated video demos for most common ventilation profiles.

This is a work in progress with Langley City Fire Rescue. The decision tree is complete with some of the injects in place. With video no longer playing without an initial click in browsers anymore, the user needs to click the video player to start the animation. This is not the case with a SCORM module in an LMS, where the video plays when the slide is visited. As such, the player controls can be removed from the video player skin, if you have that control. If not, a simple solution is to place a rectangular shape over the player control and match the colour to the background. I am using video because I found that with the injects built into the simulation as .GIF files, the load time is far too laggy to be effective. Problem: Incident commander in the Fire Service do not get enough opportunities to practice decision making, either in traditional table top simulations or on the fire ground. Solution : Provide practice through computer-based simulations, with flow path video t...

This video is from a reel of my father's (Alfred Lossing's) collection of 8mm and Super 8mm film that was transferred to 8mm digital video tape (digital analog) and later transferred by Matt Ward to digital files. This project, in its formative state, is a legacy created by my father. The current state includes my mother and I saving the films from mouldy boxes stored in the basement and quickly splicing the 50 foot reels onto 500 foot reels. As such, it forms the last work that my mother and I did together, before her cognitive abilities rapidly deteriorated. I was home for a short visit, and wanted to get this done with her. One of my hopes in sharing these is that people will share what they know about the filmed events in the comments. I certainly do not know all of the people that show up in these videos, so another hope I have is that we can pull together a full list of who appear in these videos. The video in this post is the first of seven. I am offering this o...

The xAPI Overview Broadly defined, the Experience API (xAPI) lets applications share data about human performance. More precisely, xAPI lets you capture (big) data on human performance, along with associated instructional content or performance context information. xAPI applies human (and machine) readable “activity streams” to tracking data and provides sub-APIs to access and store information about state and content. This enables nearly dynamic tracking of activities from any platform or software system—from traditional Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to mobile devices, simulations, wearables, physical beacons, and more. xAPI can track micro-behaviors, state, and context such as… Reading an article or interacting with an eBook Watching a training video, stopping and starting it Training data from a simulation Performance in a mobile app Chatting with a mentor Physiological measures, such as heart-rate data Micro-interactions with e-learning content Team performance...

Following are my notes from Sophie Mas' presentation at the JIBC's Knowledge and Beyond Conference. Choose the tools and templates that suit your needs, as there are many to choose from. Project charter Scope statement Stakeholder analysis Risk analysis Project definition:  A temporary endeavour undertaken to create unique product, service or result Temporariness: planned termination and transition Uniquiness:  Not done before Not done like this before - customized Not done here before - localized Project Life Cycles Project charter Project management plan Accepted deliverable Project ends Process Groups Initialzing Planning Executing Monitoring (Report to sponsor when things are not going according to plan) Closing Project Charter Problem Statement Goal and Objectives Scope Statement Product/service Description Assumptions and Constraints Roles and Responsibilities Resources Key Milestones and Deliverables Stakeholder Anal...