{"id":893,"date":"2008-10-31T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/31\/amanda-harby\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T21:04:25","slug":"amanda-harby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/31\/amanda-harby\/","title":{"rendered":"So long Amanda, I am going to miss you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/files\/2008\/10\/2990160804_ae874f61f4_m.jpg\" \/>Yesterday was kind of a sad day for me. My friend and colleague Amanda Harby is retiring from BCcampus. Amanda is the person who first hired me when I arrived in BC, jobless but with hope in my heart and a song on my lips. Amanda (and another colleague, Randy Bruce) are two of the big reasons I took the job at C2T2 &#8211; the chance to work with people who had helped grow this amazing grassroots network of ed tech professionals across the province, and frankly, beyond. It sure wasn&#8217;t the pay \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Those of you in BC are likely well aware of all of Amanda&#8217;s contributions in our province. For those who are not, I did a little internet archaeology to try and document some of her many contributions (luckily, Amanda herself is working to collect some of this together; our biggest loss, collectively, will be not just her as a person but her as a witness to and participant in so many projects and developments over the years). Over the years Amanda was involved with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"largeAnchor\" title=\"The issues affecting the implementation and use of educational technology : B.C. colleges &amp; institutes \/ Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, Amanda Harby. --\" href=\"http:\/\/www.llbccat.leg.bc.ca\/ipac20\/ipac.jsp?session=1225L92D0B203.400935&amp;profile=main&amp;uri=search=TL%7E%21The%20issues%20affecting%20the%20implementation%20and%20use%20of%20educational%20technology%20:%20B.C.%20colleges%20&amp;%20institutes%20\/&amp;term=The%20issues%20affecting%20the%20implementation%20and%20use%20of%20educational%20technology%20:%20B.C.%20colleges%20&amp;%20institutes%20\/%20Liz%20Hammond-Kaarremaa,%20Amanda%20Harby.%20--&amp;aspect=subtab150&amp;menu=search&amp;source=%7E%21llbchz\">The issues affecting the implementation and use of educational technology : B.C. colleges &amp; institutes \/ Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, Amanda Harby.<\/a><span class=\"largeAnchor\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"largeAnchor\">An apparently recurring theme was &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbc.leg.bc.ca\/public\/PubDocs\/bcdocs\/337362\/interactive_videocon.pdf\">Interactive Video Conference in BC<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>One of a number of sites that seemed ahead of its time in its effort to share and spread best practices, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cycle.bccampus.ca\/\">Cycle of Improved Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>advised the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.viu.ca\/seeds\/\"><strong>S<\/strong>ite for <strong>E<\/strong>xploring <strong>E<\/strong>merging <strong>D<\/strong>elivery <strong>S<\/strong>ystems<\/a> site, an early attempt to help orient educators to make good choices in educational technology<\/li>\n<li>LandOnline (which eventually morphed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutools.info\/\">Edutools<\/a>) which is documented both in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actapress.com\/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=26339&amp;reason=500\">An Essay in elearning tool categorization<\/a> and this paper on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nald.ca\/connect\/v2i1\/connect\/feb98\/page4.htm\">On-line Educational Delivery Applications: a Web Tool for Comparative Analysis<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This barely scratches the surface, but you get a sense of a lot of the different things Amanda got involved with. Always with grace, humour and helpfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda, I am going to miss you, a lot. I know I owe you a lot personally, as do many around the province. I wish you the best as you start this new chapter. I wish you lots of adventures, lots of exploring, lots of great kayak trips, lots of song, but maybe not so many renovations \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ll leave you with this lovely recording of Amanda that was made at last spring&#8217;s ETUG workshop in a session on Digital Storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>[bliptv Blamb-Summerloves377] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was kind of a sad day for me. My friend and colleague Amanda Harby is retiring from BCcampus. Amanda is the person who first hired me when I arrived in BC, jobless but with hope in my heart and a song on my lips. 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