Author Archives: Brian

About Brian

I am a Strategist and Discoordinator with UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. My main blogging space is Abject Learning, and I sporadically update a short bio with publications and presentations over there as well...

Waves

this is radio nowhere shared CC by onkel_wart The tourist amenities and the beaches in San Juan are first-rate, so with the meetings complete, and my own workload in only a modest state of disrepair, I decided to take a … Continue reading

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Call it a moment of Zen

At night, sections of old San Juan are transformed into something like a giant open air nightclubopolis… with every form of party music imaginable, salsa to rock to electronica (Pete Tong will mix there soon) throbbing out of bars all … Continue reading

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WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

I really have no idea what San Juan’s cable TV providers are doing with these monitors-of-monitors showing oscilloscopes doing whatever it is that oscilloscopes do on my hotel TV menu, but if they’re trying to seriously trip me out, then … Continue reading

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A shout-out to amigos, and the Br*ans do improv

This week the Text Technologies course I co-teach is about to begin Rip, Mix, Feed – Reloaded (feedback welcome), and it occurred to me I got some linktribution and love karma to give out. Among the things I didn’t blog … Continue reading

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Con muchas ganas

Not my hotel’s beach, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. It’s my immense good fortune to be in San Juan right now, at the conclusion of three days of meetings between a wide variety of Latin American institutions, one university from Spain/Catalonia, … Continue reading

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Abyecta de Aprendizaje – I’m going Spanglish baby!

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Titulo, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. I find myself tonight in San Juan, Puerto Rico, late at … Continue reading

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Been sucked into a vortex…

…of intercontinental jetlag, backlogged tasks, torrents of email, mangled limbs, and trying to Do the Right Thing. I do have a few posts percolating, and hope to bring at least some of them to fruition shortly. Irregularly scheduled blogging, standing … Continue reading

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Musical yuk-yuks

This clip, via Listening Post qualifies as “not safe for work,” at least for me, as I couldn’t stop laughing very loudly while watching it. I had to pause anytime I saw someone nearby who didn’t already know what a … Continue reading

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Ego-blogging redux: a couple presentations

So I didn’t feel great about how my talk at Open Education went, but my friends have kind of turned me around… Jim has convinced me that my extensive rant on rats was not a psychotic episode, as I had … Continue reading

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Don’t call it an Open Education 2007 Wrap-Up

I’m in the Salt Lake City airport as I write this, and positively knackered. So I’ll apologise upfront for a post that is incomplete and probably incoherent. I’m sure I’ll miss lots of stuff. Some highlights this week: * getting … Continue reading

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