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...

A couple great UBC weblogs

Scott plugsTim Wang’s Education Blog today. I second the endorsement. Tim does outstanding work with UBC’s Faculty of Arts (in particular some excellent learning object authoring and language learning tools), and he shares his considerable insights on his blog — … Continue reading

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Can it be possible?

Nofollow… wonder how this will kick in? From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site … Continue reading

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Blogfolios – Something else for me to mess up…

I must make a confession. I’ve never quite “gotten” ePortfolios. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea to give students a webspace in which they can collect work, reflect on their learning, and present themselves. What has … Continue reading

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Gardner Campbell on the Pew Report

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Just as I thought…

…euphoria was fleeting. About half the weblogs don’t seem to be accessible to users. When you select the editing menu for a weblog after logging in, all that results is a charming error screen. There’s the old favorite… 500 Server … Continue reading

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Back from the dead

As I slowly regained my strength over the Christmas holidays, I made a few vague resolutions for what I hoped would be a fresh start in 2005. I would try to read a bit more from actual books, even if … Continue reading

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Jumpin’ On the Poddywagon

Those of you that have been subjected to my weblog for the past year know that I write regular articles for UBC’s eStrategy newsletter. It’s a useful exercise for me, as it means that once a month I am required … Continue reading

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Make way for the moose

I’m very excited to announce that the speakers schedule for the Northern Voice weblog conference is now posted. When we were planning the lineup we wanted something that would appeal to new bloggers as well as hardcore types — and … Continue reading

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Is there a Nobel Prize for WikiHeroes?

Somehow in my perpetual haze of self-inflicted dementia and crippling self-regard I failed to recognize the importance of this posting by Seb Paquet about WikiMinion. I’m so grateful that he followed up with a comment on this weblog, rousing me … Continue reading

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On reflection…

It’s 5:00 on Friday, and as I expected the annual project grant proposal that funds our Office’s activites (including my salary) was submitted with minutes to spare. Last year was even more frantic, with myself in Hong Kong and my … Continue reading

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