External Links
Links to websites from the 20 most recent posts (excluding Linkblog posts).
2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report - Teaching and Learning Edition (May 21, 2026)
a preponderance of pumpjacks (May 10, 2026)
on monocultures, institutional agency, and resilience (May 10, 2026)
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact/
- https://status.instructure.com/incidents/9wm4knj2r64z
- https://www.ualberta.ca/en/provost/projects-initiatives/canvas/canvas-cybersecurity-incident.html
- https://ltic.ubc.ca/alternative-course-hosting/
- https://community.instructure.com/en/kb/articles/664262-what-are-the-release-schedules-for-beta-production-and-test-environments
- https://theconversation.com/why-iran-targeted-amazon-data-centers-and-what-that-does-and-doesnt-change-about-warfare-278642
- https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-relevance-of-evolution/agriculture/monoculture-and-the-irish-potato-famine-cases-of-missing-genetic-variation/
- https://ltic.ubc.ca/alternative-course-hosting/
- https://ltic.ubc.ca
shell game (May 6, 2026)
2026 UCalgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning & Teaching (May 1, 2026)
- https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/conference
- https://www.unlearningcolonialism.ca
- https://drsaraheaton.com
- https://www.nfb.ca/film/unfolding-faith/
- https://ammienoot.com
- https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/about/contact-us/staff-directory
- https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/emily-marasco
- https://soroushsabbaghan.com
- https://www.krishans.ca
- https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/nipa-chakravarti
anne-marie keynote (April 30, 2026)
prototyping interactive online content with claude design (April 22, 2026)
digital transformation is a teaching and learning opportunity (April 7, 2026)
- https://news.ucalgary.ca/news/digital-transformation-teaching-and-learning-opportunity
- https://www.educause.edu/focus-areas-and-initiatives/digital-transformation
- https://news.asu.edu/20190820-solutions-asu-develops-world-first-adaptive-learning-biology-degree
- https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/10/23/arizona-state-sees-some-early-adaptive-courseware-success
- https://www.chronicle.com/article/georgia-state-u-made-its-graduation-rate-jump-how/
- https://success.gsu.edu/approach/
- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/framework-for-digital-transformation-in-higher-education
- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/how-to-approach-digital-transformation-in-higher-education
- https://ecampusontario.ca/digital-transformation-dx/
- https://bccampus.ca/2025/08/28/building-digital-learning-competencies-extending-the-b-c-post-secondary-digital-literacy-framework/
- https://www.ucalgary.ca/about-ucalgary/digital-transformation-technology
- https://ucalgary.ca/about-ucalgary/our-strategy/strategies-and-plans
- https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/conference/theme
Linkblogging (April 5, 2026)
How I built the Typeset custom theme for this website (March 29, 2026)
- https://gohugo.io
- https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/chicagoflf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content
- https://github.com/dlnorman/hugo-lightweight-search
- https://github.com/dlnorman/standalone-comments
- https://github.com/dlnorman/standalone-bookmarks
- https://github.com/dlnorman/standalone-rss-mastodon-bridge
- https://github.com/dlnorman/Hugo-Typeset-theme
tinney print (March 29, 2026)
Introducing the DICE Framework for Higher Ed Change Leadership (March 23, 2026)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01944366908977225
- https://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1969_ENG_Ladderofparticipation/1969,%20Arnstein,%20ladder%20of%20participation,%20original%20text%20OCR%20C.pdf
- https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674224575
- https://books.google.com/books?id=OCmbzWka6xUC
- https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People.html?id=020TAgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.31.2.134
- https://josephmahoney.web.illinois.edu/BA549_Fall%202010/Session%205/Eisenhardt%20(1985).pdf
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2012.657865
- https://umaine.edu/edhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2016/05/Spheres-of-teacher-leadership-action-for-learning.pdf
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230810863253
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13632434.2022.2109620
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83255-1_30
- https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Shared-Leadership-in-Higher-Education.pdf
- https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815355
- https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781620366936/SoTL-in-Action
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.25.9.833
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227444951_A_Conceptual_Framework_for_Design_of_Organisational_Control_Mechanism
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.44.6.1253
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(90)90130-J
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070802597200
- https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.20192
- https://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-journals%2F4m-framework-as-analytic-lens-sotls-impact-study%2Fdocview%2F2412494752%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D9838
- https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803932
- https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543074003255
more noodling on AI and creativity (March 19, 2026)
- https://www.particle6.com
- https://www.xicoiatalent.com
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Norwood
- https://gizmodo.com/ai-generated-actor-tilly-norwood-drops-a-music-video-ahead-of-the-oscars-it-sucks-2000732007
- https://www.vulture.com/article/kevin-oleary-ai-tilly-norwood.html
- https://aftermath.site/nvidia-dlss-5-ai-graphics-faces-resident-evil/
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/
- https://deadline.com/2026/03/netflix-ben-affleck-ai-company-acquisition-1236744357/
- https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5739370/netflix-ben-affleck-ai-interpositive-deal
- https://www.metahuman.com/en-US
- https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/y0Ej/unreal-engine-convert-ai-generated-single-image-to-metahuman-tutorial
- https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/pro/
- https://boora.ca/the-beige-ing-of-thought/
- https://globalnews.ca/news/11713239/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-tillyverse-eline-van-der-velden-xiocia/
Work With Me (March 11, 2026)
Prototyping a new kind of online course community platform (February 25, 2026)
Prototyping a Brightspace Course Coach Application (February 19, 2026)
not another think piece on generative AI (February 17, 2026)
- https://ideasandthoughts.org/2026/02/15/beautify-this-slide/
- https://www.noemamag.com/why-human-intuition-is-still-sciences-greatest-tool-in-the-age-of-ai/
- https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
- https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
- https://couros.substack.com/p/the-shortcut-that-costs-us-everything?triedRedirect=true
- https://github.com/dlnorman/standalone-bookmarks