LFS400 @ DME: Podcasts in the Hands of Students 

Link: bit.ly/2qX0UDr The tools of podcasting and digital storytelling have become more and more accessible in the last decade. UBC’s LFS 400: Audio Storytelling course makes use of these tools, teaching students to use audio technology and a journalistic framework in order to tell powerful stories and present academic content in engaging new ways. By the end of …

Presenting today at the OpenEd 2009 Conference

This past year, I helped teach AGRO 490, Special Topics in Agriculture and Digital Communications. Today, my teaching colleagues (Andrew Riseman, Kathryn Gretsinger & Cyprien Lomas) and I will be presenting about our course at the Open Ed 2009 Conference. Thanks to Brian Lamb, our colleague in OLT and the Open Ed conference organizer, for …

Our new portable sound system

Or rather our new portable audio laboratory (PAL). Whatever you want to call it, this little box, built by Tivoli Audio, is a vast improvement over the tinny computer speakers and too quiet laptop speakers most of us get stuck using for presentations. Even Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing thinks its amazing (which reminds of …