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October 2008
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So long Amanda, I am going to miss you
Yesterday was kind of a sad day for me. My friend and colleague Amanda Harby is retiring from BCcampus. Amanda is the person who first hired me when I arrived in BC, jobless but with hope in my heart and a song on my lips. Amanda (and another colleague, Randy Bruce) are two of the [...]
BC "Learning Content Strategies" meeting
http://tinyurl.com/5tqmz8 Most of you will know one of my long term projects has been to help share online learning resources across BC and beyond. One of the main stumbling blocks to effective sharing has been the diverse (divisive?) environments in which the material are produced/housed/assembled (at last count there are at least 5 major flavours [...]
OMFG!!!!
All I want for Christmas is an iPhone, an iPhone, an iPhone… [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPrIPcyemdM] (or watch the original video here.) You can find out more info on the RjDj app for iPhone here
Why Google Can Offer So Many Apps
Ever wonder why Google can offer so many different new applications? Well aside from having superb engineers working for them, great ideas, and lots of money, there is also one other dirty secret. They don’t offer any support! Seriously, have you ever tried access support for ANY of Google’s services? I have tried, repeatedly, on [...]
BCcampus OER site – Free Learning
http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/ If you read ed tech blogs, especially the ones I read, then conversations about “open content” and “open education” feel like they have been going on forever. Indeed, at the Open Education conference this year, we celebrated 10 years of Open Education, so it’s been at least that long. But my experience travelling around [...]
The Value of Openness – Creating the Horizon Report, out in the open
http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Research_Question_One I am fortunate once again to be participating on the Advisory Board that is helping with the 2009 NMC Horizon Report. I say “fortunate,” because each year, I feel like I get far more than I give – the Advisory Board truly are a fount of all the latest and greatest developments being used [...]
Zotero creators sued by Thomson Reuters
http://b2e.nitle.org/index.php/2008/09/30/zotero_creators_sued I don’t usually just re-post stuff like this, but this is important and I’m hoping to add to whatever backlash we can create. This is obscene – that Thompson-Reuters is suing over their proprietary “endnote format.” If you somehow needed a new reason to stop forcing your students to buy textbooks from Thompson-Reuters… And [...]
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