Author Archives: Michelle Lamberson

Visual Literacy Volume

I took a quick look at the Spring edition of “New Directions for Teaching and Learning”, a Wiley journal, today.  The theme for the  Spring 2015 volume is “Looking and Learning: Visual Literacy across the Disciplines”. The full table of contents is … Continue reading

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Curation

I was thinking about the term curation today – the word is being used a lot in the context of streamlining/encouraging/promoting the integration of a mix of learning materials – including open educational resources –   into curriculum. I’ve seen … Continue reading

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BCCAT JAM 2013 Session

The Province of British Columbia has a robust (world class) system for credit articulation and transfer, as one can explore through the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) website  and the companion site, BC Transfer Guide.  Behind the scenes in … Continue reading

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NIME Paper

I received a copy of Tony Bates’ new book, “Managing Technology in Higher Education” in the mail today… which was a welcome surprise. It reminded me that I needed to post a copy of a paper that he mentions in … Continue reading

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Flickr Galleries 2

OK!  Now I am excited.  I circled back to the Flickr Galleries feature I mentioned earlier, and noticed that they have now added (and I think this is new, but I could have just missed it) the ability to explain … Continue reading

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CATac 2010: Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations”

A note from a friend (Leah MacFadyen) bout an interesting conference that will be here at UBC in June and is copied below. CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) 2010: Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations” On … Continue reading

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Flickr Galleries

Flickr has added a cool new feature to its repetoire – galleries http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/14/galleries-unleash-your-inner-curator/ This feature allows one to create a collection/set of other people’s photos I can see some interesting uses for this – including a “webquest” of sorts for … Continue reading

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Two OER Resources

From Susan D’Antoni of the iiep-0er-opencontent communities list comes a reminder of a few relatively recent OER publications: “…Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace, was released by UNESCO in print in March as the organisation’s first openly licensed publication. It … Continue reading

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Trucker Parables

Perusing through the Chronicle and came across Davis Wiley’s “The Parable of the Inventor and the Trucker“: a reflection on the case for open access scholarly journal publishing. The post is entertaining and pointed, but reading through the comments is … Continue reading

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WordPress, eh?

Ok… I’ve now done it… the new blogging platform is WordPress.  So far, it seems like: I login using my CWL I see this dashboard thing at the to I click on it. Looks like I’m in this blog here … Continue reading

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