@oct19-cohort, reminder that our next check-in is tomorrow, Sept. 4th at 1pm ET on Zoom (at our usual link). We’ll focus our conversation on any challenges or difficulties that you or your projects might be facing, so come ready to share. I look forward to seeing you all again soon.
Thanks @oct19-cohort for a small but productive check-in last Friday! We missed a few of you, and I hope that you are all doing okay — I know you must be busy with the academic term (and challenges with new delivery) or with your own personal/caregiving responsibilities. For those who were not able to make the check-in, take a look at the chat transcript plus a brief recap of our conversation and resources shared:
- The recurring theme across projects was to highlight that despite the difficulties wrought on by the pandemic, none of the authors or editors on project have stepped away.
- We talked about the best ways to reinforce stylistic preferences in the author guide (eg: avoid 1st person and passive voice) and during the copyediting process. Writing is also a learning experience, especially for first-time textbook authors and student contributors!
- We also looked at the workflow set up by @alazear - thanks Alisa! It was really nice to see the before/after of your drafts and formatted, edited files, plus get a preview of how this would look in the CanLII interface.
- We ended our discussion by thinking about creative ways to acknowledge authors in books, besides merely giving them credit on their chapter.
Take a look at the resources shared:
- CanLII Style Guide 2020
- Open Pedagogy Approaches
- Ethics: About the Contributors
- Open Pedagogy Approaches editors
- Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship: About the Authors
- Example Editing Workflow: Introduction to Philosophy
- Style sheet: Introduction to Philosophy
Our next check-in is on October 2nd, and will be our last! It will mark one year since we started the program as a cohort, and I’m hoping to make time for everybody to share updates, reflections, and identify pathways to stay connected as a network. Looking forward to seeing everyone then, and chatting in this space in the meantime. 
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@oct19-cohort — our final check-in is taking place this Friday, at 1pm ET on Zoom. I’m hoping that most of us can gather to review how our year in the program has been! I’ve put together a set of slides to guide our conversation. If you can in advance of the session, please reflect on the following questions posed in slide #5:
- Personal or project milestones over the past year
- Where has your project travelled?
- Something that has struck you the most during this journey
- What have you learned?
- A message to your team/cohort
- Despite this tumultuous year, what are you looking forward to professionally and personally?
If anyone cannot attend the session, please let me know and don’t worry about it. I’ll follow-up here afterwards to share some reflections, and make sure you are all set.
For reference, these are the openly licensed slides:
@oct19-cohort — thank you to all those who could attend our final session last week! I enjoyed looking back at our program objectives, lessons learned, and hearing your own reflections about your projects and personal takeaways from our year together.
To those who could not attend, please take a look at our slides and chat transcript. Be assured if you are still working on your project that you can:
- continue to the Rebus platform
- keep referring to all our CC BY licensed handouts, slides, and the Rebus Guide
- keep sharing CFPs, updates, announcements around your project, which we will be happy to amplify
- connect with others in the cohort (get in touch with me for the contact list)
I’d especially ask you to look at my prompts in slide #5. I’d love to hear your own reflections, which you are welcome to post here, or share in the final evaluation for the program. If you haven’t yet, please take a few minutes to complete this evaluation. We take your feedback and reflections into account to shape experiences for the 2 other cohorts in progress and others to come! Once you complete your evaluation, you can generate your certificate of completion. A list of program graduates is now live on our website!
If any of you have any questions or trouble accessing any of these documents, please let me know.
With that, I’ll just say thank you one last time! I’m looking forward to seeing many of your projects progress, and to staying in touch as a community! Thank you for letting me be part of your projects and journeys — it has been an honour and a pleasure. 
