A workshop I am co-facilitating next week: Finding Alternative Resources: Public Domain and Creative Commons Dec 12, 2011 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – Lillooet Room, 301 This session is intended to address common questions concerning “freely licensed” materials for scholarship and teaching. Some of these questions will include: What is meant by [...]

Like many other entrepreneurs, Hailey Coleman , had ambition, a dream, and not much else. She created a shoe company named “Damn Heels” straight out of university. Recognizing that she lacked the skills to help the company reach it’s potential, she enlisted the help of “Ideal Samples”, a Toronto-based company that helps entrepreneurs get their product from [...]

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Grandview Cut Construction shared CC by oliverk I’ve had quite a run of interesting personal/professional development events this past month… Add them to my perpetually-growing “to-be-blogged” queue: a Northern Voice that achieved epic heaviosity, a Sustainable Education Across the Province (SEAP) workshop, and last week in Nelson the always enjoyable spring gathering of the province’s Educational Technology Users Group . [...]

A View Out of the Front Door of my Kharkov Apartment shared CC by Stuck in Customs It’s been an ungodly amount of time since I updated my blogs. I thought I might reproduce an email I just sent off to a faculty member at UBC that I am trying to convince of the value of opening [...]

So Michael Wesch has a new snazzy video out , presumably about to go viral… it’s got that Wesch video vibe: Ever alert, D’Arcy noticed a disreputable source on the web-browser bookmark-bar… snapped by Dean: Pretty sure this item is to a post in which I linked to a wonderful 2006 John Willinsky lecture that features prominently in the [...]

C12_manifiestoBOBESPONJA_02 shared CC by AMASTÉ …just not here, not so much. In part due to a push on the Digital Storytelling Open Course front, I staked out a domain and installed a blog at http://abject.ca. It was the first time doing so in nearly two years, certainly the first time since WordPress 3 was released, and I was pleasantly [...]

That this is the first animated .gif I have ever created. Does anyone recognise this essence-capturing scene from one of my favorite movies? That was done with the help of Jabiz Raisdana’s post . Now, if only I can figure out the instructions here to do something as lovely as this… Like Michael Feldstein, I know I risk looking like [...]

From Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, Player One : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4fAmOZs9-c

“Information overload triggered a crisis in the way people saw their lives. It sped up the we locate, cross-reference, and focus the questions that define our essence, our roles – our stories. The crux seems to be our lives stopped being stories. And if we are no longer to [...]

PG from marabales on Vimeo. I can’t express how excited I am to be heading to Buenos Aires for this week’s seminar ¿El Paréntesis de Gutenberg? , which is essentially a week-long investigation into how digital media is transforming communication and culture. (I’m depending somewhat on my shaky knowledge of Spanish there…) I was invited by Alejandro Piscitelli , who I had [...]