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Granville Island, Vancouver, originally uploaded by Alan Stanton.
A quick post to let those here in British Columbia know that the 2008 Educational Technology User’s Group Spring Workshop, May 28-30, is featuring the theme of creativity [...]
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Image by Rob Kruyt
Nearly a decade ago, when we were planning our return to Canada after a couple of years living in Mexico, we had no idea where in our home and native land we might be able to settle. We had a Christmas visit back to British Columbia and Keira took me for my [...]
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One of the benefits of insignificance is that people rarely have reason to take shots at you. So when some fairly sharp criticisms were directed my way over my recent NMC Mashup Symposium mashup I really didn’t know how best to respond… I knew that something that weird would not appeal to everyone, and I had [...]
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I’ve blogged a couple times previously about the Murder, Madness and Mayhem Wikipedia project (MMM) this semester, as it is the most potent cocktail of new media learning and public education that I’ve ever tasted.
As the semester wraps up, I’m thrilled to report that the objective of elevating an entry to “featured article” status has [...]
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Don’t even try to argue with me. Boot and Blade is definitely a figure skating blog. I can’t imagine a better place to go if I want to see the worst figure skating falls.
You may have guessed that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of figure skating. And I positively hate the Olympics. I’d [...]
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I have lost count of the number of people who have asked for the media for Gardner Campbell’s wonderful session at UBC last month, “Computers as Poetry.” I just got the results back from the lab today, and while I need another viewing and some thinking time to be able to respond to it at [...]
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I am humbled by how much people seemed to enjoy my mashup unartistry delivered in Second Life yesterday (though that reaction was hardly unanimous). And while I’m a little embarrassed by the heaps of praise offered up by Alan Levine, I’ll link to it anyway since it accurately documents just how much he and Rachel [...]
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