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If you haven’t watched Lessig’s fantastic, passionate keynote yet, watch it.

(link to the video, in case it gets stripped from the RSS)

It’s worth it, if for no other reason than to get your own Certificate of Entitlement, signed by Lawrence Lessig:

I was asked to share how I got that Bike Blur photo yesterday. It’s really simple, once you know a couple of tricks.

I lugged my camera and Flip on the Ride to Conquer Cancer, to document some of the ride. It was a pretty epic bike ride – the hardest thing I’ve ever done – but was well worth it.

Thank you to everyone that supported me in any way – it definitely made the pain of the ride easier to push through.

Full resolution photos are available on Flickr, and I apologize for my severe lack of video production skills…

I’ve been farting around with a Manfrotto Super Clamp to attach a camera to my bike to experiment with techniques to document the Ride to Conquer Cancer. I’ve got a bunch of stuff to try, but I’m getting closer to something that I’m happy with.

Here’s the first half of my ride home from UCalgary campus through the streets of NW Calgary – sped up about 3x. I was averaging between 30-40km/h for this portion of the ride.

(video doesn’t show up in RSS feed. grumble.)

I still have a few things to figure out – the clamp isn’t quite level, so I need to MacGuyver a way to level the thing so the footage isn’t all leaning to one side – but it’s getting close.

Inspired by this commute video I saw this morning, I was curious what it would look like if I recorded my full commute. I’ve tried it before with a helmet cam, but hadn’t tried it with a fixed quasi-steady camera.

I took my cheap little Flip Ultra video camera, stuck it on the rear rack of my bike, and fastened it in place with a pair of bungee cords. It wasn’t ideal, but should have been good enough, as long as I didn’t wipe out or hit anything big.

I took the longer route home, climbing the big fracking hill at the south end of my home community. And Patrick Kelly joined me for the first part of the ride (you’ll see him a minute or so into the video). The video is sped up – it was a 45 minute ride, compressed into under 9 and a half minutes. I gave up on fancy titles and music, so you get the raw (but time-compressed) version here:

The Reverend just posted a link to a great video produced by EDUCAUSE, which is basically a discussion between Jim Groom and Gardner Campbell on edupunk. It’s well worth viewing. I’m going to be passing it around here on campus.

click the image above, or, if you don’t want the embedded QuickTime version, there’s the slideshow on Flickr.

The 2008 366photos photo a day project wrapped up last night. I don’t have anything deep or profound to say about it, other than I’m really glad Alan talked me into doing a second year (after doing 2007/365 the year before). I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, but it’s been fun. It’s been hard – I knew it would be, but there were a few times where I almost dropped the project. It’s been surprisingly rewarding. And it’s been inspiring, watching the other people who have taken on the project for the year.

I had initially planned on stopping after this year, but now I really don’t think I can stop. Time to get 2009/365 started…

I missed this when it was released because I was offline someplace warm.

I had the distinct pleasure of introducing Dr. Leslie Reid this morning, for her presentation “Creating Team Projects that Work in Large Classes: Redesigning a Large Science ‘Service’ Course” – part of the Teaching & Learning Centre’s 10th anniversary series of presentations. She talks about her experience in redesigning a large class (300 students with 13 weeks of lectures) into a format based on group projects (250 students with 6 weeks of lectures and 6 weeks of group work).

The video recording of the presentation is just over an hour long, and includes some questions from some of the faculty members in attendance. I recorded the session with my little Flip Ultra camera, and it did a surprisingly good job.

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