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...

Sun Ra and The Blues Project Do Batman and Robin!

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Brian

Some days I can’t believe the stuff I get through my aggregator. Over on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog Station Manager Ken Freedman has posted the entire contents of an amazing artifact: In 1966, a toy company in Newark, New … Continue reading →

Posted in Abject Learning | 4 Comments

Ninmah embarks

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Brian

It’s a gas to see that Rachel Smith has started up a weblog. Rachel has been a catalyst and synthesist (among other things) with the New Media Consortium, does a lot of cool stuff with some amazing people. She made … Continue reading →

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Conference Chicken – A Lifelong Vendetta and Blood Oath

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Brian

My friend Jason told me recently that food blogging is going to blow porn off the web. As already noted, I enjoyed the conversation and the presentation at the Monday ELI lunch immensely. But the event was marred by the … Continue reading →

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ELI crafts me the perfect buzz

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Brian

It’s too late for me to write a proper recap of the day, and I barely have two synapses to rub together. But experience has taught me that overviews best be captured quickly. Hopefully I can follow up on a … Continue reading →

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Who is Caleb Navidson?

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Brian

And where, oh where is Kate? Counterintuitive as it seems, I can’t shake the hunch that my arrival in San Diego for the ELI Annual Meeting brings me closer to solving these mysteries. * As an aside, being a barely … Continue reading →

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VPL Post-Mortem and Gratuitous Gratitude

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Brian

Well, after all my anxiety the talk at the Vancouver Public Library went pretty well. One of the biggest audiences I’ve spoken to, and definitely one of the most diverse. We had people like Richard Eriksson in the front row, … Continue reading →

Posted in Abject Learning | 15 Comments

Beyond the Blog – Not Ready For Prime Time (Yet)

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Brian

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! It’s all my fault. For the past week or two, Alan and I (OK, mostly Alan) have been labouring in obscurity constructing our presentation for next week’s ELI Annual Meeting. Though I’ve mostly been whining here … Continue reading →

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One must defraud no one. Not even the world of its victory.

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Brian

One of the points I often make when I go into my blogvangelist mode is how over time weblogging helps you to develop a network of peer experts, who act as filters and analysts for a range of subjects that … Continue reading →

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CiteULike Screencasts

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Brian

One of the best outcomes of my unit’s reorganization has been the opportunity to work a little more closely with the instructional designers who develop distance education courses. One of those designers, Tannis Morgan has posted a set of useful … Continue reading →

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The network delivers the goods

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Brian

You never know what might happen when you make a blanket appeal for feedback, such as I did in the run-up to the blogs and wikis talk tomorrow night at the VPL. People are busy, and I asked some deceptively … Continue reading →

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