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Pressbooks Sandbox (Bring Your Own Laptop) In-Person
Abstract:
Participants will be invited as an editor in the Pressbooks Sandbox book and will create their own chapter and play with the Pressbooks tools. We will also learn how to clone and create a book in Pressbooks, and function in the Pressbooks platform.
Registration is required (see below) as we have limited seats available.
If you are a member of the University of Regina or its Federated Colleges and can’t attend in-person but would like to join through Zoom please email open.textbooks@uregina.ca.
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Saskatchewan Time (change)
- Location:
- CTL Seminar Room - AH 105.6
Presenter bios:
Shuana Niessen is the Open Education and Publishing Program Manager with the Centre for Teaching and Learning. She holds an M.Ed from the University of Regina and is the author of the openly licensed book, Shattering the Silence: The Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in Saskatchewan
Arlysse Quiring works in the Dr. John Archer Library in reference and library instruction, with specialties including French language services, the Archer Book Club, and Fake News presentations. Her work in Pressbooks and the OER community includes network administration for book building and troubleshooting, interim boot camp coordination and presentations, book building and library resources instruction sessions and recordings, newsletter reference articles, the co-creation of the University of Regina OER by Subject Directory pressbook, and the oURspace cataloging of UofR pressbooks publications. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studies student in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the UofR.