Author Archives: Michelle Lamberson

UBC Reports — Looking ahead

For the UBC Reports beginning of the year issue, I and several of my colleagues we asked to provide a brief “look ahead” to UBC in the next 5-10 years. Each of us took a slightly different perspective — mine … Continue reading

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Mathcasts.org — student-developed screencasts

Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed provides a commentary and pointer to Mathcasts.org, “…a wiki that is collecting examples of student produced screencasts about math related topics” (Weblogg-ed description). One of the interesting links on the wiki is to the Whiteboard Movie Making … Continue reading

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Vacation…

I’ve heard of vacations and I think it’s time I actually relax and try to take the one I’m on… so the next month will likely be quiet. Or perhaps the opposite? Hard to tell… considering I’ve posted for the … Continue reading

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ELI Innovations/Implementations: UBC’s Ancient Spaces Project

I was checking my Blogline’s Account — the Educause Feed, and was linked by an Elisa Coghlan post to a 2 page summary of UBC’s Ancient Spaces Project. – Home Page for the Ancient Spaces Project: http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca/ (or www.ancientspaces.com) – … Continue reading

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“Quality” / Benchmarking – Workshop resources

Following a series of weblinks this morning has been entertaining… One site I wanted to bookmark and go back to is at the Univ Victoria, Wellington Site: NZ E-Learning Capability Determination Workshop: Example Documents Describing e-Learning Quality http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/research/emm/WorkshopGuidelines.shtml

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Classroom Response Systems

One of the committees I am currently serving on is evaluating Classroom response systems, AKA “clickers”. There has been a lot of activity in this space here at UBC, particularly in Physics. My colleague Jim Sibley has been posting about … Continue reading

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Adam at Home – Recalling Calvin…

Ah… remember the days of Calvin & Hobbes – when Calvin would use all sorts of media-style techniques for blackmailing his father? (Your ratings are taking a hit, dad…) Gotta love it when you see some of that same entertaining … Continue reading

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Is that a podcast or a desperate teaching moment?

I’m in the middle of teaching this term and as a consequence… my ability to keep up with my weblog, spotty at best… is really challenged. But I really had to share this one… Not to jump on the ole … Continue reading

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e-Assessment Lit Review

I saw this literature review on e-assessment pointed to by Jeremy Williams (The Authentic Assessment Website), and thought I’d better mark this one down. I love Jeremy’s description; he calls it “… little UK-centric, but a jolly good read all … Continue reading

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Test Post from Writely

Well, Novak blew my mind the other day by introducing me to Net Vibes, an online portal that takes advanctage of AJAX’s capabilities. Imagine a portal where you can drag and drop the channels to different locations on the page. … Continue reading

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