social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Friday is the final deadline for session proposal submissions for the third annual Northern Voice — a conference dedicated to weblogs and social software hosted here at UBC, February 23-24.
Attendee registration is also open, and a mere fifty bucks gets you two days of rich, chocolatey, new webby goodness.
If I wasn’t part of the organising [...]
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Via OLDaily, Norm Friesen has just posted the third installment of his “E-Learning Myths” series, this one entitled The Myth of the Knowledge Economy. It ain’t easy reading, but I wish every edublogger who has praised The World is Flat [cue sound of my teeth grinding] would take some time to reflect on Friesen’s [...]
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So if it ain’t trying to keep up with grading, or the annual grant writing frenzy, it’s something else… I’m having enough trouble keeping up with email. And I won’t even get into the local boil-water advisories and Vancouver’s annual crippling snowstorm (which pushed this morning’s bus commute to nearly three hours — [...]
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Nov. 28 – Update below…
Last night I received the following communication in my UBC email inbox, with a blank subject line:
Dear Mr. Lamb,
My name is J***** P*****, I’m currently a Junior in high school doing a project in history answering the question “What is Power?” I have a quick question that I would greatly appreciate [...]
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Nice spot for a track, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer.
The blog has been quiet, and I doubt I will make much of a splash this week as I’m hip-deep in backlogged tasks and am mostly focused [...]
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I want to throw a quick shout out for this next week’s installment of the Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) series, which features three of our university’s most accomplished instructors:
Community Building and Student Engagement: A Multidisciplinary Panel
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 – 1:30 – 3:30pm
Location: Telestudios Main Theatre, Lower Level, 2329 West Mall, Rm. #0110
How [...]
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I was too tired to write a proper summary of the mind-altering NMC Regional Conference on the flight back, and today is not the day either…
Because the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the only sports team that matters, improbably won their game last week, advancing to face the BC Lions in Van Rock City here today. The [...]
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On the flight down I was hunting through my hard drive for useful sound clips, and ended up listening again to a conversation via Skype I had with Gardner Campbell some months ago while preparing for the New Media Consortium’s virtual conference on personal broadcasting. Due to time limitations, I was only able to [...]
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Today I am literally swamped. Not misusing ‘literally’ here, I mean my place is besieged by floodwaters, much of the yard underwater, the city engineers responsive but apparently unable to do much until the rain lets up here in Van Rock City — whaddya know, it’s flooding all over the lower mainland… So [...]
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Much of interest the past few days… a few of my favorites:
* Via oook: Zotero is “a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you to annotate, organize, and share the results of your research. It includes the best parts [...]
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