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I’m not sure how many of our friends to the south are aware of this, but using web services hosted in the United States is deemed to be a threat to the rights of Canadian students. Indeed, a public institution … Continue reading →

Photo by psd No point easing into the new term, and out here at the UBC Mothership Campus there’s going to be a couple enlightening and provocative events to get 2009 rolling… Next Tuesday, January 13th, 10am – noon, (Dodson … Continue reading →

A snap from the daily commute, in the neighborhood Most of you never been, and never will you go to Barcelona So I have to tell you, what I now know about Barcelona – Bonnie “Prince” Billy [The rest of … Continue reading →

Photo by Juan Freire Being an anxious sort, I’ve worried a lot about whether I have provided my wonderful hosts at the IN3 at the UOC (not to mention my accommodating peers at OLT-UBC) with fair value for the considerable … Continue reading →

It came as an unpleasant shock to realize that I had completely failed to respond to or even acknowledge some pretty amazing feedback for an admittedly tentative post I wrote floating an alternative grading structure for essays. I feel like … Continue reading →

Part of me feels as if I have just arrived, but in fact this is my last week working at the UOC. Like every other week, it’s been a blur so far. Monday was a whirlwind of meetings with the … Continue reading →

Photo by drp @import url(http://skreemr.com/styles/embed.css); The Who – Going mobile Found at skreemr.com Dec 2, 2008 UPDATE: Added link to João Fernandes’ blog. Ever since I acquired a certain much-hyped fetish object, I’ve accepted on some sort of instinctive level … Continue reading →

cloudythinking, originally uploaded by zanzo. I mentioned in my previous post that Julià Minguillón and I have been throwing around Mike Caulfield’s suggestion that we think about how we might exploit a third party system with a good API such … Continue reading →

Kicking ass chart, Emerging Tech 2008, San Diego, CA.JPG, originally uploaded by gruntzooki. I posted some early work that I have been doing with Julià Minguillón and his team here at the UOC on trying to make the act of … Continue reading →

Jim "I’ve got your children" Groom – Edupunk Posterboy, originally uploaded by bionicteaching. Three recent triumphs by everybody’s favorite edupunker Jim Groom that merit some shout-outs: I was on an airplane when the recent NMC Online Conference in Second Life … Continue reading →