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Author Archives: Brian
Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars…
I just got this exciting news delivered to my RSS reader: Coming: Beta Geminorum (22 hours away) Beta Geminorum is 33.7 light years away and only 22 hours from the outer surface of your light cone – your ever-growing sphere … Continue reading
Posted in Abject Learning
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A plague of spam-locusts…
This weblog has not enjoyed the protection of the MT-Blacklist plugin for a few weeks… I hadn’t bugged my host about it because he obviously has bigger fish to fry these days, and I knew he’d get around to it … Continue reading
Posted in Abject Learning
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Everybody needs free music…
The latest awe-inspiring contribution by Otis Fodder to the cultural commons: Comfort Stand is a not-for-profit internet-only community driven label where all releases are free for download with artwork and liner notes. Having no business model or profit motive we … Continue reading
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It’s so, like, serindipidipitous, man…
First thing this morning, for reasons yet unclear to me, I subjected a group of very nice people to the dreaded introduction to learning objects presentation, puppet show, and dance… The talk was hosted by UBC’s cross-town rivals at Kwantlen … Continue reading
Posted in Abject Learning
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Hot ePortfolio Gig at UBC
UBC has posted a position for an ePortfolio Community of Practice Coordinator. Michelle Lamberson, Office of Learning Technology’s Director has posted the full job description and application instructions on her weblog. This position is quite similar to my own — … Continue reading
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Syllabus Defiled
Another reason to keep an eye on the weblogs. Bryan Alexander alerts me to a short case study I wrote about UBC’s use of wikis for Syllabus magazine. The piece is a fairly straight-ahead (and ruthlessly shortened) description of how … Continue reading
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Ghost town – a surreal journey into the dead zone
Photo reportage at high speed through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster area. Alternately provocative, trenchant, amusing and depressing. A simple use of html and digital images that hits more powerfully than scores of more complex and tangled web presentations. … Continue reading
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A shout-out to the home institution…
Via Libraries & Learning, a program here at UBC that gets it right: As an expansion of the directed studies option offered by most departments, this program allows senior undergraduate students to initiate and coordinate small, collaborative, group learning experiences. … Continue reading
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More meta-posting (dare I invoke ‘housecleaning’?)
The half-dozen or so readers of this page know that I am prone to what Martha Whitehead referred to as the bloggin’ blues: I’d been thinking about the ol’ millstone. I’ve found that neglecting your blog is like being at … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia
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Ultimate confirmation of the jump-drive’s utility
The Swiss Army Knife of the Future, via List.
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