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The Spring 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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The LFS Learning Centre Brown Bag Lunch series

Friday, February 15th, 2008

If you are wondering how to keep up with technologies related to teaching, learning and research you might want to check out the LFS Brown Bag Lunch series. The series is a collection of topics that we feel are important. The series has had presentations on broad issues including Creative Commons, The Net Generation and [...]

Presenting GreenGene at the AERA Conference

Monday, April 9th, 2007

France Gagnon and I presented the GreenGene project at the 2007 AERA conference in Chicago.
For a screencast, check out Mojiti. You can download the source code here.

We have moved to our new space!

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

We are now getting settled in our new space and loving it.
Post script: We had our official opening on March 15th, 2007.

PathFinder and Avatar

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

PathFinder and Avatar

Originally uploaded by MichaelBuckbee.

John Lester (aka Pathfinder Linden) is doing the lunchtime keynote at the NMC Regional conference at Trinity University.
John is holding up his Second Life likeness cast in epoxy through the miracle of a 3-D Printer (see the 2004 Horizon Report).

Technorati [...]

The ELI Web Symposium

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

The ELI Web Symposium takes place today and tomorrow online. The lineup is great and I love the fact that I don’t have to travel to get access to these great presentations!
The agenda is as follows (all times PDT). All sessions are one hour long.
Wednesday May 24:
9:00 Agile, Adaptable, and Accountable Diana [...]

A Fond Farewell to Radio Userland

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

One realization that came out of the many discussions that I had at Northern Voice 2006 was the observation (nay – the kick in the pants at the hands of Scott Leslie, Darcy Norman, Roland Tanglao and Derek Miller) that Radio Userland, my blog authoring platform of choice, was starting to look a little [...]

Rachel Smith is giving a tour of the NMC Campus

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

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Originally uploaded by Cyprien.

Rachel Smith is giving a tour of the NMC Campus in Second Life for the University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy. Her talk is well documented here. I delicioused as many of the references as I could using the tags ‘rachelsmith’ and [...]

Second Life events rivalling real life?

Monday, May 15th, 2006

I was lucky enough to attend the Mixed Realities event in Second Life. Since then I have managed to make it to two other ‘online’ conference events that I would not have otherwise been able to attend.
The obvious advantages of attending in Second Life are related to geography.

1) I can sit [...]

Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC Released!

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Tim Wang notes that the Flash Player for Pocket PC has been released.

Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC Released!:

I guess I am officially looking for a new phone – and that new phone should have the capabilities to run the Flash Player. It would also be nice if the phone could cross borders [...]

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