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...

Cover and simmer, hit and run…

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Brian

Time is short, and the mindqueue of unposted blog entries continues to mount. On the weekend, my music and martini guru Bill played me a lot of great stuff through his audiophile hi-fi that makes me drool every time I’m … Continue reading →

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Make way for da Moose!

Posted on October 19, 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; } Forest Sciences Centre, originally uploaded by Cyprien. Some things are so good you just gotta do … Continue reading →

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Mashing Up the Open Education Conference

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Brian

This is the fourth consecutive year I have headed to Utah, attending an event that has evolved into the Open Education Conference, a wonderful mix of open source developers, open content evangelists, and social software enthusiasts — all dedicated to … Continue reading →

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“old skool phunk” — mixtapes then and now at ArtCamp

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Brian

So far ArtCamp has been fun, if a little conferencelike for my liking. That was my same problem with Moose Camp. Can we do something besides talk at an unconference? Not that the talks haven’t been good. I liked Kelly … Continue reading →

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I’m a-goin’ ArtCamping…

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Brian

Kinski 6, originally uploaded by aranjis. I’ve got a lot of fond memories of Vancouver’s New Forms Festival, a special highlight was seeing Kinski a few years back. As I recall, it was my first social outing after Harry was … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia and Higher Ed – Glib Answers to Tough Questions

Posted on September 13, 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; } Amazing Global Square Puzzle!, originally uploaded by Natman. I was recently sent a few questions by … Continue reading →

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Plugging Permaculture

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Brian

I was introduced to the principles of permaculture by my sweetie Keira some years ago. And to be honest, I’ve allowed her to become the expert on the subject, my own role is providing the grunt labour to help fulfill … Continue reading →

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Douglas Adams’s 1990 BBC documentary on hypertext

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Brian

I haven’t had a chance to watch the full movie version of Hyperland closely yet (available as of today on Google Video), but what I’ve seen convinces me that this will be a nice complement to our study of hypertext … Continue reading →

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“Fitting words for an epitaph…” — an encyclopedic smackdown!

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Brian

Boing Boing alerts us to this debate between Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia’s founder and chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation) and Dale Hoiberg (senior vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica). There seems to be some legitimate animus bubbling below … Continue reading →

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Some actual analysis of the Harper’s forum on educational gaming

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Brian

Only have a few moments, but I wanted to link to Ulises’s characteristically thoughtful post concerning the Harper’s discussion I pointed to yesterday, one which prompts a response from one of the principals (I was meaning to see if Koster … Continue reading →

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