Author Archives: Michelle Lamberson

NIME Paper

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Michelle Lamberson

I received a copy of Tony Bates’ new book, “Managing Technology in Higher Education” in the mail today… which was a welcome surprise. It reminded me that I needed to post a copy of a paper that he mentions in … Continue reading →

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Flickr Galleries 2

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

OK!  Now I am excited.  I circled back to the Flickr Galleries feature I mentioned earlier, and noticed that they have now added (and I think this is new, but I could have just missed it) the ability to explain … Continue reading →

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CATac 2010: Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations”

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

A note from a friend (Leah MacFadyen) bout an interesting conference that will be here at UBC in June and is copied below. CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) 2010: Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations” On … Continue reading →

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Flickr Galleries

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

Flickr has added a cool new feature to its repetoire – galleries http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/14/galleries-unleash-your-inner-curator/ This feature allows one to create a collection/set of other people’s photos I can see some interesting uses for this – including a “webquest” of sorts for … Continue reading →

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Two OER Resources

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

From Susan D’Antoni of the iiep-0er-opencontent communities list comes a reminder of a few relatively recent OER publications: “…Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace, was released by UNESCO in print in March as the organisation’s first openly licensed publication. It … Continue reading →

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Trucker Parables

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

Perusing through the Chronicle and came across Davis Wiley’s “The Parable of the Inventor and the Trucker“: a reflection on the case for open access scholarly journal publishing. The post is entertaining and pointed, but reading through the comments is … Continue reading →

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WordPress, eh?

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Michelle Lamberson

Ok… I’ve now done it… the new blogging platform is WordPress.  So far, it seems like: I login using my CWL I see this dashboard thing at the to I click on it. Looks like I’m in this blog here … Continue reading →

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Google Earth & Group Projects

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Michelle Lamberson

Not sure why I posted a question on a Google Earth Community without posting on my own blog? Love to have some ideas on this question… I’m trying to understand how I might put together a group activity that allows … Continue reading →

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Closing the Gap

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michelle Lamberson

I really enjoy the “For Better or For Worse” cartoon series. They have been running a series of comics recently which show how young people are communicating with one another. Today’s cartoon was priceless, I thought, and relates strongly to … Continue reading →

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Library of Congress on Flickr

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Michelle Lamberson

I was doing some casual Sunday cruising of Flickr and discovered the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr! They have shots from the early 1900′s through the 40′s. All the ones I saw had no copyright restrictions on them… Its … Continue reading →

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