Category Archives: Abject Learning

Much of interest the past few days… a few of my favorites: * Via oook: Zotero is “a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets … Continue reading →

…and everyone else coming to my site because they are learning about kittens.

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post. I linked to Robert Wyatt’s Wikipedia entry, which contains this fascinating tidbit on the events subsequent to the 1974 accident that left him paralysed, ending his drumming career but not his musical one: Later … Continue reading →

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 →

My buddy Rob is always good for throwing me groovy web video links — I could probably maintain a decent blog just ripping him off. A couple weeks back he turned me on to this inspired mash-up of three instructional … Continue reading →

As so often happens after a stint of work travel, I got out of rhythm here after the Arizona/Comox/Croatia tripleplay and have yet to regain my blogging legs. In response to a few kind queries, I am indeed alive. No … Continue reading →

I know that at least a handful of people who look in on this blog are also fans of the massive media repository of avant-wonder at UbuWeb. Just a quick note that a whack of new material has been added … Continue reading →

If it isn’t Googlicious irony enough that I am the most relevant Brian Lamb according Google — beating out a more eminent namesake… (I always wonder if he’s a bit annoyed at me.) Now I find out I am top … Continue reading →

Big thanks to Joan Vinall-Cox for cross-posting pointers to a couple very promising pieces on the SocialLearning.ca site: The current issue of Innovate has a number of interesting articles. I especially recommend Mejias’s Teaching Social Software with Social Software and … Continue reading →

The upcoming trip to Croatia is fraught with peril. There are materials to prepare, workshop logistics to attend to, office and household tasks to square away before Friday’s departure. I’ve noticed a couple of prominent weblogs in the region, including … Continue reading →