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...

“As big as the inside of your head” — Gardner Campbell on sound

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Brian

On the flight down I was hunting through my hard drive for useful sound clips, and ended up listening again to a conversation via Skype I had with Gardner Campbell some months ago while preparing for the New Media Consortium’s … Continue reading →

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A downer for the deluge…

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Brian

Today I am literally swamped. Not misusing ‘literally’ here, I mean my place is besieged by floodwaters, much of the yard underwater, the city engineers responsive but apparently unable to do much until the rain lets up here in Van … Continue reading →

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Hit and run — academic Firefox goodness, fast and cheap open education, a UBC Second Life island…

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Brian

Much of interest the past few days… a few of my favorites: * Via oook: Zotero is “a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets … Continue reading →

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Welcome cat lovers…

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Brian

…and everyone else coming to my site because they are learning about kittens.

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Parade of Lost Souls

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Brian

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fire I, originally uploaded by sharply_done. Last Saturday my family took part in the Public Dreams … Continue reading →

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Make as big a mess of my Second Life — and a new virtual campus for my province

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Brian

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Second Real, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know.” — Daniel … Continue reading →

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GUSSE: Social software powers sustainable thinking

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Brian

One of the best things about working at a big university is the abundance of cool stuff happening across campus, though it’s always a challenge to keep up with it all.  I’ve been meaning to throw up a blog post … Continue reading →

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Ho hum…

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Brian

…just another day in the onward march toward technotopia. “There is a new gold rush and it’s for the set of basic ideas underlying the software we all use and depend upon. ” — Al Essa “If you’re interested in … Continue reading →

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Up in the sky! It’s a book! It’s a wiki!

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Brian

Allow me to add my own shout-out for the eminent wikiologist Stewart Mader today, as it marks the publication of his book/wiki hybrid Using Wiki in Education, a welcome contribution to the canon. What’s most notable about the book is … Continue reading →

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Give the drummer some

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Brian

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post. I linked to Robert Wyatt’s Wikipedia entry, which contains this fascinating tidbit on the events subsequent to the 1974 accident that left him paralysed, ending his drumming career but not his musical one: Later … Continue reading →

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