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Bike to Work Day – April 11
There’s a big “Bike to Work Day” in Calgary on Friday, April 11. The University of Calgary is running a special event on campus as well. It’s pretty safe to say I’ll be biking to work that day (and every other day as well ) and am looking forward to seeing how... »
Michael Geist – Why Copyright?
Michael Geist gave a talk at The University of Calgary on April 2, 2008, on the subject of copyright. He talked about the need for Fair Dealings, the dangers of the Canadian DMCA, and even touched on the benefits of open access and even open education. Dr. Geist’s presentation was very compelling, interesting, and engaging.... »
EduGlu / Social:Learn Meetup?
Scott threw a suggestion onto Twitter this morning that has been percolating for a few hours. It just hit me. CANHEIT is here at UCalgary in June. I can arrange meeting space here on campus. If anyone’s interested in a face-to-face Eduglu/Social:Learn/Web 2.0 in higher ed meetup, how does The University of Calgary in June 2008... »
Recipe for building a Drupal-powered blogging community website
I worked with our Faculty of Education to build a community blogging website for use by after-degree student teachers as part of their personal/professional development, reflection, and collaboration process, as well as to collect materials for use in ePortfolios. They had a set of pretty simple constraints. Because the student teachers would be writing... »
Drupal is the Official UCalgary Podcasting Solution
I was just in a meeting with some folks in our campus IT department, where we were trying to figure out what the official University of Calgary supported podcasting solution would be. We were basically trying to decide if we should jump onto iTunesU in a big way, or roll our own service. iTunesU is... »
Job opening: Teaching Development Coordinator
Want to work at the Teaching & Learning Centre? We’re hiring. It’s a tenure track position, working on coordinating our major teaching workshops. photo by small ape »
BarCamp/DemoCamp Calgary!
I didn't think Calgary was ready for this, but apparently I was wrong. Thanks to an email from Sami, I see that the first ever BarCamp Calgary is scheduled to take place on May 26, 2007, at the University of Calgary main campus. This is a type of event I've REALLY wanted to... »
Workshop Ideas for 2007
In a recent project meeting, we were tossing around ideas for workshops to conduct in 2007, and I've taken on a series of topics that could be loosely described as "new tools and strategies". Here's the current short list of workshops I'm planning to develop (and later conduct) through the TLC. Any glaring omissions? Creative... »
My Photo on a Magazine Cover
Last month, while on vacation at a lakeside cabin in BC, I received an email asking permission to use one of my photos on Flickr for a magazine cover. "uh, sure? it's creative commons, so have at 'er. Can I have a copy?" I got my copy today. Is that ever cool. It's for... »
Teaching & Learning Centre website now powered by Drupal
We just launched the new website for the Teaching & Learning Centre at The University of Calgary. It's been a long time in the making, with heavy use of themes, custom CCK content types, events, signups, views, and a bunch of other Drupal modules and tricks. King worked his usual magic in putting together... »
