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Pressbooks Sandbox (Bring Your Own Laptop)

Pressbooks Sandbox (Bring Your Own Laptop) In-Person / Online

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. For online registrants, the Zoom link will be included in your confirmation email. Please use your uregina email to register.

Date:
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time:
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Time Zone:
Saskatchewan Time (change)
Location:
CTL Seminar Room - AH 105.6

Registration is required. There are in-person seats available. There are online seats available.

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.

Event Organizer

Arlysse Quiring
CTL Centre for Teaching and Learning

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