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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 →

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 →

Its been far to long since I visited my own weblog and got comfortable again here… Time to (re)start! Michelle

A group of us have started discussing possibilities related to campus wide digital content collections (institutional repositories and less formal collections) recently.  This is not a new area for UBC — there have been several initiatives along these lines and … Continue reading →

My what an odd path we sometimes travel. While looking for information related to Refworks, US-based servers and Canadian issues with US based servers (another topic that someday I should post some notes on…) and related topics… I ran across … Continue reading →

I have to provide a high level overview of some of the UBC initiatives at a meeting today — and so I thought I would just post the URLs here! LEAP – An innovative collaboration between students, faculty and administration … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →