I’m a visual learner. I needed to be able to visualize my week in order to plan to attend live Virtual Symposium events wherever possible, so I added all of the scheduled events for the Virtual Symposium to a Google Calendar for my own use, but also to share with my cohort.
Link: RRU MALAT – Virtual Symposium 2022
The Applied Research Project and Digital Learning Research Consulting Project presentation Padlets are set up as all-week events, and all of the other scheduled presentations are set up as individual events, identified by which stream they’re in.
I made sure to set the event times in PDT, so when you subscribe to the calendar, it should automatically convert them to your local time. You can subscribe to the calendar using your preferred calendar app on your desktop and/or mobile device.
I did not include any of the pre-recorded events, since they can be viewed any time. And of course, all of the live events will be recorded as well for asynchronous viewing. I just thought I’d share this calendar in case others wanted to attend any of these events during their live webcast.
I can relate to the visual part. I have to be able to see what I have to do for the upcoming week. Thank you for putting all that data into a calendar and then sharing it. It is most appreciated.
I am putting together a To-Do list for this week as the all things listed on the course WordPress site seems (at first reading anyways) like quite a bit, but I am hopeful that once I have it in a visual to-do list it won’t seem to overwhelming.
Visualizing time is really important for me, otherwise I’m lost. Having little nudges and reminders also helps a lot.
Thank you, Darren, for creating the Google calendar and sharing it with the rest of us! I subscribed to it, and it’s very helpful. 🙂
Fantastic! I’m glad you find it useful, Shazia. Time gets away from me very quickly if I don’t have a mental model for it, so I find reformatting a complex timeline into a visual model that makes more sense to me (like a calendar vs. a linear stream of events) helps immensely.
Thanks Darren! Just imported this into my Outlook calendar.
Pure Genius!! Thank you Darren
I forgot to mention that the Zoom link for the live sessions is the “location” link in the meeting notification. Tap/click on the notification or meeting card when it comes up, and it should launch Zoom. Genius? Hmm… maybe “clever”? 😄
I wish I would have looked at this sooner! This was amazing, and I agree with the visual part, I think I may have failed on that this past week. I really appreciate that you did this!