Author Archives: Michelle Lamberson

Podcast Interview with Librarian

I have likely mentioned before that I teach an online course each year – EOSC 311 – The Earth and its Resources. The course is designed for students who are not majoring in science. I focus on geological processes that … Continue reading

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Online Conference: Assessment in the Digital Age

I received this via Jeremy William’s weblog notification… I’m not sure who I might tell of this interesting conference that is coming up… so that type of event seem to be a good candidate for a targeted e-mail (done) and … Continue reading

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BC 2007 Innovation Awards in Educational Technology

Thought I would pass this along… a good opportunity to have good work recognized! CALL FOR NOMINATIONS BC 2007 INNOVATION AWARDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY The 2007 Innovation Awards in Educational Technology honour and recognize BC public post-secondary individuals who test, … Continue reading

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Old Dirt

Have to bookmark this one for later… “Old Dirt- New Thoughts“. This particular post talks about how this archeology prof from Minnesota is using, and more importantly, has his students use Google Earth. Inspiration abounds… gotta have the time to … Continue reading

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Digital Content Links

A group of us have started discussing possibilities related to campus wide digital content collections (institutional repositories and less formal collections) recently.  This is not a new area for UBC — there have been several initiatives along these lines and … Continue reading

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Integrated Support Systems

This article has been sitting in my “unpublished entries” of my weblog for a while (since march 2004? yikes!) — I have a habit of storing and forgetting to go back. Not good — another end of year resolution to … Continue reading

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References beyond Google

My what an odd path we sometimes travel. While looking for information related to Refworks, US-based servers and Canadian issues with US based servers (another topic that someday I should post some notes on…) and related topics… I ran across … Continue reading

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Some links for Later

I have to provide a high level overview of some of the UBC initiatives at a meeting today — and so I thought I would just post the URLs here! LEAP – An innovative collaboration between students, faculty and administration … Continue reading

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First TLT Talk: Clickers in the Classroom: An Interactive Panel

Just a plug (and a reminder for me) for our first Teaching and Learning with Technology Series Talk of the 2006-07 year, set for later this month (Sept 26): Title: Clickers in the Classroom: An Interactive Panel This September UBC … Continue reading

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Couple of good resources for teaching large classes

My colleague Marina Milner-Bolotin from the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Faculty of Science’s Skylight (Science Centre for Learning and Teeaching) pointed me in the direction of a few exciting projects that I think have wide applicability.  Both … Continue reading

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