just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
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I’m riding in the Ride to Conquer Cancer again this year. It’s a 2 day, 200km ride south of Calgary through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, June 26-27, 2010. Last year, we were able to raise nearly $7 MILLION for the Alberta Cancer foundation. I’m hoping we can top it this year. But I [...]
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it’s consistently the most interesting, varied, relevant, and mind-opening conference. go. register. now. even better – there’s still time to submit a proposal for a session.
I’m going. May in Vancouver? What could be better than that?
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It looks like the University of Calgary is planning a series of TEDx events: TEDxUofC – the first one being next week, just days after the TEDxYYC event.
After previously saying I wouldn’t go to a TEDx event because of the way they’re set up, I’m happy to post that they don’t have to be that [...]
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I was really excited that a TEDx event was being planned for Calgary. I was looking forward to TEDxYYC, and was planning to attend and help out in any way that I could. The website for the event went live today, so I went to register.
I got to the registration form. Except it’s not a [...]
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I’m trying the rating features baked into the latest version of the PollDaddy plugin. It looks pretty cool – you can set it to allow rating of posts, pages, and even comments. Not sure how it’ll be used, or if it will be useful at all, but there it is. Rate away. If you have [...]
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A great manifesto. 43 guiding principles to live by. (via David Gillespie)
My faves:
6. capture accidents
12. keep moving
13. slow down
14. don’t be cool
20. be careful to take risks
32. listen carefully
33. take field trips
38. explore the other edge (everyone crowds the leading edge…)
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Stuff from this morning’s romp through my RSS reader:
a link to an old article on how to hack a disposable camera into an automatic flash slave unit. gotta try this. (via Photojojo)
an awesome Helvetica t-shirt, rendered in Comic Sans. So wrong. So awesome. (via boingboing)
Tuper Tario Tros – Tetris meets Super Mario Bros. mashup game. [...]
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the twitter effect
February 26, 2010 · 10 comments
in general
Rereading Alan’s post on his blog hiatus, where he takes a month off of posting on his blog to comment elsewhere, I was struck (as always) by the patterns in activity he described. I decided to take a closer peek at the activity on my own blog – I’ve been thinking a lot about discourse [...]
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