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...

Not (brain)dead (yet)

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Brian

I’ve tried. Honestly I’ve tried. No blogging the past month or so because of * a day-to-day schedule that has careened wildly out of control * a new house (and related activity) which has limited my after-hours online play * … Continue reading →

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Is it a wiki? A floor wax? A dessert topping?

Posted on June 28, 2005 by Brian

Yet another application to keep me tantalized and humbled all at once… I’ve been spotting TiddlyWiki in my peripheral vision for some time now, but only over the past couple days have I fixed my gaze on it. So far … Continue reading →

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Inspirational prose from Franz Kafka

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Brian

This day has been a psychic cesspool, making me all too receptive to notions such as these: When I think it over, I must say that my education has in many ways done me great harm. This reproach falls on … Continue reading →

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Now, if only someone could help me to visualise the change in my frontal lobe…

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Brian

Jon Udell’s latest screencast on visualizing change is the usual mind-expanding stuff. I only had a few minutes to follow through on the links, but those few minutes not only snagged me a nifty tool for viewing editorial processes in … Continue reading →

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An aggRSSive crash course in brain surgery

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Brian

Now that I have totally botched my half-baked plans for a gentle launch, maybe I should give a quick overview of what aggRSSive actually is… I should note I am writing this post in extreme haste (I’m off work today, … Continue reading →

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A learning object repository in motion (feeling a little bit aggRSSive)

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Brian

Update: I meant to hold off posting the link until I added more feeds to the collection and polished a couple things. I also hope to point out more features which we need to make easier to find. But I’m … Continue reading →

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Weblogs as a teaching and scholarship tool

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Brian

Here at the UBC Town Hall… I normally don’t blog sessions, but I’ll make an exception in this case, as this is a topic very close to my heart. A group of TAs in the Department of English (my old … Continue reading →

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Where do you want to go today? How about a labour camp?

Posted on June 13, 2005 by Brian

Microsoft Corp. is cooperating with China’s government to censor the company’s newly launched Chinese-language Web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said. The policy affects Web logs, or blogs, created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a … Continue reading →

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Let’s just ease back into this… my first Blog-Ha moment.

Posted on June 7, 2005 by Brian

Well, it’s been a long time, been a long time, been a lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time…. I don’t want to throw my back out by blogging too rigorously, so I’m going to make my first entry back an … Continue reading →

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We interrupt this pleasant silence to make a series of tiresome excuses…

Posted on May 30, 2005 by Brian

My silence is not indicative of a lack of interest in the weblog world… nah, there’s much going on worthy of attention, and some of my favorite bloggers have been on fire lately. But ever since I got back from … Continue reading →

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