social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
One wonderful perk to working at UBC is the calibre of guest speakers the University is able to bring on for talks and workshops. This Friday is yet another humdinger, as Helen Chen from Stanford pays a visit:
Opportunities for Reflection and Community-Building Using Emerging Technologies
How can we identify and build opportunities for students to [...]
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I don’t use MySpace myself, and having only looked at it quickly had always wondered what the buzz was about.
A couple months back, I did have something of an ‘a-ha’ moment when I followed this link to the MySpace entry for a fictional private eye who occasionally phones in to a funny WFMU show I [...]
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I wanted throw a shout-out to the organizers of this year’s eLearning Open House, which is an informal gathering of the university’s wired educators that is being held for the third year.
If you want to get a sense of the innovation with learning technology that is happening all over campus, this is a great event [...]
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We recorded the Hootenanny at Moose Camp, and now Jason has mixed the thirty minutes down to a ten minute Moosecamp Mashup (4.2 MB).
Jason has done an excellent job of pulling out the points, cleaning up the noisy bits, and layering it all into a very fast and dense package. That’s Scott’s “El [...]
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Looking ahead to a week jam-packed with performance and peril, and the technology is not cooperating.
On the home front, the aging plumbing in our bathroom seized up last week, rendering our tub/shower non-functional. Not easy to find a plumber in Vancouver these days — we eventually found a “fun” plumber, who is doing what [...]
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Not an ed tech story, but I wanted to throw a shout-out to a story by my brother-in-law Kennedy Jawoko in the Toronto Star: Haunting images typecast Africa:
Last summer at the height of the “Make Poverty History” campaign, British television station Channel 4 broadcast a documentary titled The Empire Pays Back, in which it estimated [...]
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Via YouTube
(Thanks Bruce.)
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I’ve made some inept attempts to relate some of what Bryan Alexander opened up in my skull during his ELI presentation on alternate reality games. For the benefit of the poor souls who’ve been on the receiving end of my incoherent harangues, I follow up with a pointer to Bryan’s post on ARG antecedents [...]
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For two years, back in the old TechBC days, I worked next to Dan McGuire with only a thin cubicle membrane between us. It was my job to find learning objects (as long as I ignored the accepted definition of LOs, I did OK), it was his job to get copyright clearance so we [...]
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To get a sense of how getting people together to share ideas and have fun (I have those priorities listed in the wrong order, but I’m in the office right now) can pay off with enhanced augmented capacity, check out D’Arcy’s latest post on the as-yet nonexistent EduGlu aggregator.
I’ve been thinking about this stuff for [...]
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