I’ve posted this to a couple different groups, but I figured most members here would be interested in it:

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People, want free Dropbox storage space?

Unfortunately, if you’re getting a new ”@alumni.ubc.ca” email address, you won’t be able to capitalize on their current promotion — the ”Great Space Race” — until they start including the new…[Read more]

Houston, we have lift-off. Following another very successful Comm 293 Midterm exam for 570, we now have five other ‘large section (+200)’ instructors wanting to move their entire exam structure into Vista. The beauty is that they now understand how moving to the online environment does NOT mean moving to just multiple choice questions that do…[Read more]

So much going on right now that no time for a full post, other than to throw this out to everyone:
Via: Voxy Blog

So here’s a new one…we’ve had a fire today in our building so the Learning Technologies group has relocated to the warm confines of the CTLT offices in Ike Barber. Thanks to Marianne and the rest of the crew for getting us back on our feet so quickly. It’s days like today that I’m glad that i’ve made the commitment to working and playing…[Read more]

Collaboratory is once again resurrected at Sauder (Henry Angus) in room HA 296. If anyone wishes to drop by to further investigate any of our service catalog offerings and/or drop by for a conversation. Any and all welcome.

Currently sitting in HA 492 while an instructor conducts a final exam review from Patagonia. 30 students in the room and their using all the bells and whistles. Live classroom is the platform and it’s working to full capacity…. It’s a brave new world…

An interesting read from our view. Anyone have a contrarian view?

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/12/09/5-higher-ed-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2011.aspx

And another day to celebrate on the bleeding edge…or at least breath a sigh of relief that all went well. Last night we had three marketing presentations that were delivered to three remote clients in such exotic places as Dawson Creek and Vancouver Island. The students did an amazing job and the new V/C room (HA 492) performed to perfection. …[Read more]

Well…all in all it’s been a great semester for the the bleeding edge here at Sauder. We’ve brought iPeer successfully into our service catalogue with at last count close to 1000 Sauder students having been involved in group evals. As well we’ve also had 3 more faculty and divisions join on board with the Vista template architecture which is…[Read more]