Last week Rich McCue from the Digital Scholarship Commons at UVic came to talk to our Educational Technology class. I wasn’t aware of this facility located in the library, but it seems pretty awesome! The people at DSC work to help anyone on campus and  in the community with digital tools and technology. They have workshops, devices and tools to borrow and software to use.

Some of the workshops they have coming up this fall include: 3D printing, using R Studio (this is my jam, but I wish this was around 10 years ago), video editing, open source GIS, Python, LaTex, Twine and data visualization. One of the amazing things for us Education students is that they provide the lesson plans for their workshops so we could adapt and use them eventually in our own teaching practice.

I’ve been thinking about doing my Educational Technology Inquiry on the use of maps and map technology in education. They have a cool sounding lecture series this fall about Digital Mapping, but unfortunately it conflicts with our link-to-practice seminar on Wednesdays. I’ll be checking out what else they have for sure!