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H5P Training

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Dani, Courtney, and Chris attended the first of three workshops on creating interactive educational media in Moodle, WordPress and Pressbooks using H5P. Jamie and Brenna did a great job facilitating the workshop with examples, step-by-step guidance, and ample hands-on time to experiment with interactive media. For an overview of the session and some jaw-dropping examples, see…

First Nations, Indigenous, or Aboriginal: Which Is Appropriate?

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Bob Joseph’s CBC article addresses how and why the terminology we use may be changing: “One of the key messages I give in my workshops and training: ‘Go with what they are calling themselves.’ […] it’s about showing respect and using the term that individuals and organizations have chosen for themselves.” Joseph, B. (2016, September 21). Indigenous or Aboriginal:…

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Workflow Emails to Production

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New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.

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Open Style Resource for Canadian Legal Citation

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Michelle Terriss, TRU’s Law Librarian, co-created an open resource for Canadian legal citation. Canadian government or legal citation can be challenging to fit into academic style guides, and this open resource is a helpful guide for Canadian editors and writers. The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL-RJAL Guide) is freely available on CanLII, 

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Elements of Indigenous Style (2nd ed.)

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Dr. Gregory Younging published Elements of Indigenous Style in 2018. This year a new edition has been published by Brush Education: https://brusheducation.ca/brush-catalogue/p/elements-of-indigenous-style-2e This video is a recording of the book launch with editors Warren Cariou and Lorena Fontaine (2025). Amy Haagsma of West Coast Editors wrote a book review and description of the changes: https://westcoasteditors.com/elements-of-indigenous-style-continuing-the-conversation/ The first…

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Style Sheets

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Spring is here! Thank you for your patience while I play with this new colour feature in WordPress. What Is a Style Sheet? The most basic tool for editing, and one of the most practical, is a style sheet. Most of the time the editor creates this and shares it with others. A style sheet…