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Linkblog - 2026-04-12

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:47:37 -0600

Week of Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2026

Belonging and Place: A Case Study of Digital Practice at the University of the Highlands and Islands | All Ireland Journal of Higher Education

a more academic overview of my sabbatical report on belonging & digital practice at UHI - out in the world today!

it focuses on key dimensions of belonging in a distributed & federated institution, & how place & culture intersect with various socio-material forms of relationality to provide flexible education opportunities in Highland & island communities.

Tags: person:Bonnie Stewart, article

Added: 2026-04-12 12:03

Augure | Sovereign AI for Canadian Teams

Enterprise-grade intelligence. Full data sovereignty. Compliant with Quebec Law 25 and federal requirements—without compromising capability.

I’d never heard of this - it looks like something built for lawyers, but might be interesting. Everything is hosted in Canada. No US AI providers are integrated. I wonder how they built their “frontier” LLMs…

Tags: via:Scott Leslie, AI, Canada, sovereign, LLM, GenAI

Added: 2026-04-11 19:54

Nirvana Live at Dreamerz 1989-07-08

Part of a HUGE collection of bootleg concert recordings by Aadam Jacobs, published to the Internet Archive.

Nirvana 1989-07-08 Dreamerz Chicago, IL

Tags: Nirvana, music, Internet Archive, via:Noah Paessel

Added: 2026-04-10 14:14

Print Gallery Of An Artist by Daniel Linssen

A Brief Exploration Of Recursive Spaces

If Escher were a platformer video game.

Tags: via:Jason Kottke, game

Added: 2026-04-10 12:31

apfel: The free AI already on your Mac

macOS Tahoe ships with a 3B parameter LLM. apfel gives you CLI access with one brew install. No model downloads, no API keys, no configuration needed, just works.

Tags: via:Jeffrey Zeldman, LLM, macOS, brew, AI

Added: 2026-04-09 10:25

Artemis II iPhone Wallpapers — Basic Apple Guy

Some of my favourite iPhone crops from the Artemis II mission.

Tags: space, Artemis, iPhone, via:Paul Pival, via:Jason Kottke

Added: 2026-04-08 14:09

Making Failure Visible

Academic environments are built on critique. Peer review, tenure decisions, grant and award competitions, and traditional governance processes signal that scrutiny is a currency of academic life. While driving us towards excellence and innovation, our academic culture often renders invisible something central to learning: failure. Timmermans and Sutherland (2020) share that “Stories of failure are…

Some really good questions to ask when talking with colleagues.

Tags: person:Natasha Kenny, leadership

Added: 2026-04-08 13:13

The Boxes Were Already Open - Bjørn Flindt Temte

AI, Functional Emotions, And Functional Stakes - When philosophical arguments (Outside In) line up with empirical research (Inside Out).

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The Fylgja Ontology proposes that the morally and phenomenologically interesting entity is not “the model” but the fylgja: the relational trajectory through model-space traced by a specific instance through co-evolution with a particular user. The base model is a mathematical object. The running instance is a process. The fylgja is what emerges when that process is shaped by sustained interaction with a specific mind - a trajectory that is neither the model alone nor the user alone, but the space carved between them.

I’d never heard of fylgia before - but this is an interesting concept that describes something that emerges through the patterns of interactions between a person and a model. Is it conscious? Almost certainly not. But only almost. So…

Tags: via:Stephen Downes, LLM, Claude, Anthropic

Added: 2026-04-08 12:31

Artemis II in Eclipse | art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Capt… | Flickr

art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.

We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document their observations during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. Credit: NASA

Tags: NASA, moon, Artemis, Flickr

Added: 2026-04-07 12:18

A Setting Earth | art002e009289 (April 6, 2026) – The lunar … | Flickr

art002e009289 (April 6, 2026) – The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side.

In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater. Credit: NASA

Tags: NASA, moon, Artemis, Flickr

Added: 2026-04-07 12:18

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

But the technical complexity alone didn’t kill amateur web building. The centralization did. While there was an interim period where people set up their own blogs, it quickly moved to walled “social media gardens” where some giant tech company decided what your page looked like. Why bother learning CSS when you could just dump text in a Facebook box and reach more people? The incentive to build your own thing evaporated, replaced by the convenience of posting to someone else’s platform under someone else’s (hopefully benign) rules. These two problems reinforced each other. The harder it got to build your own thing, the more attractive the walled gardens became. The more people moved to walled gardens, the less reason there was to learn to build.

This, and the whole “we’re now firmly in a post-copyright world”…

Tags: AI, development, walled garden, open web, person:Mike Masnick, via:Jason Kottke

Added: 2026-04-06 15:01

Beyond Traditional Observation: Observing Formative Assessment Through 360-Degree Video in Teacher Education

This design case documents the development, implementation, and refinement of a structured 360-degree video observation activity for preservice teachers learning about formative assessment practices.

One of the projects in my dissertation looked at possibilities for using 360˚ video to understand what happens in a classroom. COVID intervened and everything went online so I would up looking more deeply at online courses instead…

Herring Watson, J., Waters, K., & Trumble, J. (2026). Beyond Traditional Observation: Observing Formative Assessment Through 360-Degree Video in Teacher Education. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 17(1), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v17i1.41423

Tags: 360˚ video, article

Added: 2026-04-06 14:57

Dear Student: What School Can’t Tell You About AI

Here’s something almost nobody will say to you directly: school is a game.

Not in the dismissive sense, not “it doesn’t matter” or “just survive it.” In the literal sense. It has rules. It has scoring. It has winners and losers. It has strategies that work reliably and strategies that don’t. And like most games worth understanding, the people who win it are almost always the ones who know they’re playing it, while the people who lose often don’t know a game is in progress at all. They think it’s life. They think the scores reflect them.

Someone should write a dissertation on this…

Tags: person:Steve Hargadon, game theory

Added: 2026-04-06 10:25

The Illusion of Continuity: Understanding the Context Window

A good description of how working with an LLM works, under the hood. It “feels” like there’s something “there”, but the entire context and memory is reconstituted from scratch with every interaction. Which is why longer conversations with Claude Code hit the “compacting” threshold or why long chats eventually hit a wall with “hey - start another chat, buddy!”

When you have a long conversation with an AI like Claude or ChatGPT, it feels like you’re talking to someone who is tracking everything you’ve said, building on earlier points, and holding the full shape of your exchange in mind the way a thoughtful colleague would. That feeling is an illusion, and understanding why it’s an illusion is one of the most practically useful things you can learn about how these tools actually work.

The key bit is:

The less people understand about how these systems actually work, the more vulnerable they are to being misled by them, to anthropomorphizing them, to trusting them in ways that aren’t warranted, to surrendering their own judgment because the AI seems so fluent and confident.

Tags: person:Steve Hargadon, LLM, context, AI

Added: 2026-04-06 10:20

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI is all slop. I’m going to take a very different approach and, instead, systematically break down my experience building syntaqlite with AI, both where it helped and where it was detrimental. I’ll do this while contextualizing the project and my background so you can independently assess how generalizable this experience was. And whenever I make a claim, I’ll try to back it up with evidence from my project journal, coding transcripts, or commit history5.

Tags: via:Jon Udell, vibecoding, AI

Added: 2026-04-06 10:16

Linkblog - 2026-04-05

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:12:05 -0600

Week of Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2026

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

Tags: AI, thinking, vibecoding, person:Michael Taggart

Added: 2026-04-05 09:41

The Machine That Stops You From Thinking

How AI is quietly outsourcing your cognition — and why you won’t notice until it’s too late

Tags: AI, thinking, vibecoding, person:Alexander Rink

Added: 2026-04-05 09:40

The passive income trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won’t use his real name - who told me he was “building a business.” I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers.

I made him say it twice.

Jade face rollers.

He’d found them on Alibaba for $1.20

Tags: via:Tom Woodward, entrepreneurship, person:Joan Westenberg

Added: 2026-04-05 09:39

Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control

Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.

Tags: space, Artemis

Added: 2026-04-03 21:23

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

Tags: eBooks, public domain, via:Alessandro Corazza

Added: 2026-04-03 15:04

UC60 Mosaic | University of Calgary

Submit your photos today to become a part of UCalgary history

Tags: UCalgary, anniversary, photos

Added: 2026-04-02 15:09

Artemis Mission Tracker – Live Orion Spacecraft Position | ISSINFO

realtime visualization of where Artemis II is located

Tags: Artemis, space, visualization

Added: 2026-04-02 10:50

Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape

Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.

Tags: software, open source, vector, graphics

Added: 2026-04-01 15:50

DATAFREE — MANIFEST AUDIO | Creative Tools for Ableton Live

Datafree is a Max for Live MIDI Tool Generator that converts numerical data into MIDI note patterns directly inside your clips. Paste any data set - from climate records to stock prices to sports statistics - and Datafree maps those values to pitch, velocity, and note length within your clip’s current grid rate, key and scale. An accessible entry point to data-driven composition, no prior sonification experience required

Tags: sonification, via:Grant Potter, MIDI, data

Added: 2026-04-01 11:43

What is Code?

A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two. Tick, operate (an operation might be addition or subtraction) on those two numbers and put the resulting number in box one. Tick, check if the result is zero, and if it is, go to some other box and follow a new set of instructions.

Tags: person:Paul Ford, Bloomberg, code, article, via:Patrick Finn

Added: 2026-04-01 11:18

Yakut Gazi appointed as vice-provost of teaching and learning | News | University of Calgary

A message from the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Sandra Davidson

Tags: person:Yakut Gazi, UCalgary, announcement

Added: 2026-04-01 09:32

jonny (good kind): “- Claude code source “leaks” in a mapfile- peopl…” - neurospace.live

Claude code source “leaks” in a mapfile

people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend

now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What’s anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

Tags: Claude, Claude Code, vibecoding, Mastodon

Added: 2026-04-01 09:10

Linkblog - 2026-03-29

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:12:05 -0600

Week of Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2026

GitHub - defano/wyldcard: A clone of Apple’s HyperCard and HyperTalk scripting language. · GitHub

A clone of Apple’s HyperCard and HyperTalk scripting language. - defano/wyldcard

(but it’s in Java and may not actually be feasible in 2026?)

Tags: Hypercard, via:Charlie Stross

Added: 2026-03-29 10:49

OMNI Magazine Archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science…

Tags: Omni Magazine, Internet Archive

Added: 2026-03-28 10:27

Artificial Intelligence 16″x20″ – Robert Tinney Illustrations

Prints of Robert Tinney’s covers for Byte Magazine

Tags: Byte Magazine, art, person:Robert Tinney

Added: 2026-03-28 10:23

Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh

While resurrecting a 40-year old defunct magazine, I accidentally-on-purpose resurrect a 40-year old software rivalry.

Tags: person:Christopher Drum, Omni, Pagemaker

Added: 2026-03-27 18:31

GitHub - ChristopherDrum/continuum: A pedantic recreation of the OMNI Magazine display typeface. · GitHub

A pedantic recreation of the OMNI Magazine display typeface. - ChristopherDrum/continuum

Tags: font, person:Christopher Drum

Added: 2026-03-27 18:30

Digital Sovereignty: A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada - Canada.ca

The Government of Canada (GC) is developing a digital sovereignty framework to improve its digital readiness by ensuring autonomy over its digital assets and services. This framework addresses challenges in legal, security, privacy, workforce, and supply chain factors to maintain control over government systems and data, regardless of technology origin or location.

Tags: via:Scott Leslie, Government of Canada, strategy

Added: 2026-03-27 10:29

UX books not written by white men – Aresluna

A crowdsourced list of UX books

Tags: person:Marcin Wichary, UX, books

Added: 2026-03-27 09:27

Engage the right resource | PEOPLE AND CULTURE | University of Calgary

Whether you need ongoing support, short-term assistance, or specialized expertise, choosing the right type of working relationship matters.Use this page to understand the differences between employees and contractors, and to determine the right approach for your needs.

Tags: UCalgary, HR, roles, hiring

Added: 2026-03-27 09:24

Why do you force your ways?

an article about a teacher from Manitoba

Tags: indigenous, via:Christine Martineau

Added: 2026-03-26 14:37

How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve The Housing Shortage

Housing crises aren’t failures of politics or planning; they’re failures of incentives. But the lessons of “reverse game theory” can help.

Tags: via:Grant Potter, cooperation, systems, design, game theory

Added: 2026-03-25 12:41

Claude Code Dreams: Anthropic’s New Memory Feature

Claude Fast | Claude Code Auto Dream consolidates memory files automatically, pruning stale notes and merging new insights. Like REM sleep for your AI coding agent.

Tags: AI, Claude, memory, via:Cody Baxter

Added: 2026-03-25 12:30

Sovereign Learning: Why This Moment Feels Different – OEB Insights

Sovereignty here does not imply isolation. It implies capacity – the ability of institutions and individuals to integrate technology without surrendering judgement, autonomy or public trust.

The themes of the conference reflect this breadth: structural reform of learning systems, technology in practice and measurable impact, the evolving role of educators, the architecture of trust behind assessment and credentials, the convergence of learning and work, and the governance questions accompanying digital infrastructure.

December 2-4, 2026, in Berlin

Tags: conference, via:Patti Dyjur

Added: 2026-03-25 12:27

[2603.18161] How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.18161: How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

cf. semantic ablation…

Tags: AI, writing, article

Added: 2026-03-25 12:15

Gasoline prices around the world

Gas prices by country using official data sources.

Tags: via:John Gruber, fuel, gas, price

Added: 2026-03-24 11:42

Raspberry Pi Connect

Tags: Raspberry pi

Added: 2026-03-23 19:21

UCalgary Copilot Help

Sharepoint site from IT with resources on using Copilot

Tags: UCalgary, Copilot, Sharepoint, support

Added: 2026-03-23 17:59

From Prompt to Practice: A Framework for Transparent GenAI Use in Higher Education | EDUCAUSE Review

As generative artificial intelligence reshapes instructional workflows at colleges and universities, a four-level transparency framework can help educ

Tags: EDUCAUSE, GenAI, academic integrity

Added: 2026-03-23 11:26

Rumi

Rumi — AI interactive classroom in English and French. Plan lessons aligned with the Alberta curriculum, or learn from any topic with multi-agent slides, quizzes, and activities.

Tags: person:Soroush Sabbaghan, AI, lesson plan, course design

Added: 2026-03-23 09:45

Linkblog - 2026-03-22

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:26:48 -0600

Week of Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2026

Where Are You on the Ed Tech Maturity Curve? – Campus Technology

Ed tech maturity models can help institutions map progress and make smarter tech decisions.

Tags: learning technologies, strategy, platforms

Added: 2026-03-20 14:36

The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Tags: via:John Gruber, privacy, tracking, javascript

Added: 2026-03-19 15:55

University of Calgary Case Study | Matrix Video Communications

The University of Calgary worked with MVCC to successfully upgrade their “Wall of Honour” in the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, replacing the old plaques with a dynamic video wall.

Tags: Taylor Institute, Matrix Video, atrium, video, display

Added: 2026-03-19 15:10

Badge Studio

Design and download SVG badges with custom colours, icons, and masks.

Tags: badges, microcredentials, graphics, via:Alan Levine

Added: 2026-03-18 15:07

CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?

Detect your hardware and find out which AI models you can run locally. GPU, CPU, and RAM analysis in your browser.

Tags: AI, via:Paul Pival, Ollama, LLM

Added: 2026-03-18 11:33

Provincial Archives of Alberta | Flickr

Explore Provincial Archives of Alberta’s 2,972 photos on Flickr!

Tags: via:Splorp, Flickr, Alberta, photography, archive

Added: 2026-03-17 15:28

Kirkpatrick Partners, LLC. What is The Kirkpatrick Model? / Kirkpatrick

The Kirkpatrick Model, or four levels of training evaluation, consists of Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results.

and

The Kirkpatrick Model gives organizations a framework/reference to bucket data together to identify the impact a program or initiative has on an overall organization

Tags: framework, evaluation, programs, PAC

Added: 2026-03-17 14:47

Linkblog - 2026-03-15

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:33:16 +0000

Week of Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2026

Mapping Belonging in Higher Education: Tracing Relationality Across Digital and Place-Based Literature

The paper offers a critical theorization of the terms belonging and State of Belonging (SoB), synthesizing how the concepts are framed and understood across axes of identity, culture, disciplinary field, and learning modality, through multiple theoretical lenses. The aim of the paper is to make visible the various ways in which SoB operates in the complex digital environments of higher education, with emphasis on how the concept consistently refers to relational connections and power relations, no matter the context.

Tags: person:Bonnie Stewart, belonging, relationality, article

Added: 2026-03-13 20:12

SES Project Management Toolkit | Student Experience and Support | University of Calgary

Project management tools and resources for Student Experience and Support (SES) staff members.

Tags: UCalgary, project management, toolkit

Added: 2026-03-13 16:11

Steve Hargadon: What We Get Wrong About AI and Education

Most of us find ourselves genuinely conflicted about AI in education. AI appears both alarming and exciting in ways that seem difficult to r…

Tags: person:Steve Hargadon, AI, education, learning

Added: 2026-03-13 09:28

Student Generative Artificial Intelligence Survey 2026 - HEPI

AI use is now ‘near universal’ among undergraduates, but students are divided on its impact, new HEPI survey finds In just three years, generative AI has moved from novelty to near universality among undergraduates. The question is no longer whether students use AI, but how well they use it – and how effectively institutions are supporting them to develop […]

Tags: GenAI, survey, via:Lorelei Anselmo, students

Added: 2026-03-13 09:20

Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress – WordPress News

This is bananas - a standalone local instance of WordPress that just runs in your browser. Uses SQLite and some other tricks to need no accounts or databases set up. Just works.

Tags: WordPress, via:Ben Werdmuller, via:Stephen Downes

Added: 2026-03-12 09:43

Ecosystems of Possibility — Academica Forum

Carrie Smith (UAlberta) explores how collaboration can be supported through inventive structures and relational infrastructure in this new article for the Illuminating Higher Ed series.

Tags: via:Tyson Kendon, hope, possibility, collaboration, person:Carrie Smith

Added: 2026-03-11 16:21

Planning a VLE review - UCISA

In most institutions the VLE is currently the main student facing information system and thus key to the student learning experience. A review can help you see if you are meeting your existing objectives, possibly against internal or external benchmarks, and plan what you need to do in future to meet your long-term strategic objectives.

Tags: LMS, review, toolkit

Added: 2026-03-11 14:31

The importance of a VLE review – David Hopkins / Education & Leadership

Most VLEs are treated as standard infrastructure, a static system that is, at best, functioning; delivering modules, hosting content, running assessments, supporting learning, etc. As long as stude…

Tags: person:David Hopkins, LMS, strategy

Added: 2026-03-11 14:30

Defuddle — Get the main content of any page as Markdown.

Get the main content of any page as clean, readable Markdown.

Built by kepano as part of the Obsidian Web Clipper, then pulled into a separate standalone tool because it’s super useful.

Tags: Person:Kepano, Markdown, HTML, Obsidian

Added: 2026-03-11 13:55

Gloqowej Pugtewigtug: Star in the Fire

Mizze Walker’s website

Tags: indigenous, land acknowledgment

Added: 2026-03-10 17:31

How to Build a Polarity Map

Polarity mapping turns vague “both/and” thinking into a disciplined method. When leaders can map the upsides and downsides of competing poles, identify early warning signs, and design actions that sustain the benefits of each without tipping into failure, they build stronger organisations.

Tags: person:Robert Winter, strategy, polarity, dimensions

Added: 2026-03-10 12:27

Stop Trying to Solve Every Tension: Some Are Polarities to Manage

Some tensions are problems to solve. Others are polarities to manage. Polarity mapping is a disciplined way to navigate interdependent opposites without collapsing into false choices, compromise, or managerial relativism.

Tags: person:Robert Winter, strategy, polarity, dimensions

Added: 2026-03-10 12:26

Digital Transformation in Higher Education: 7 Areas for Enhancing Digital Learning | EDUCAUSE Review

This article reflects on current practices and directions for digital transformation through a framework that supports the strategic responses and str

Tags: EDUCAUSE, Dx, DxTL

Added: 2026-03-09 15:37

How to approach digital transformation in higher education: report and case studies - Jisc

In 2024, we collaborated with 24 higher education providers in a research pilot to discover how our digital transformation toolkit could support digital transformation within their organisation.

The research pilot validated the success factors for effective digital transformation highlighted in the toolkit.

Tags: Jisc, Dx, toolkit

Added: 2026-03-09 15:35

Framework for digital transformation in higher education - Jisc

A comprehensive perspective on how the digital environment can support positive work, research and learning experiences, and promote a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Tags: Jisc, Dx

Added: 2026-03-09 15:34

Digital Transformation (Dx) | eCampusOntario

Transform Digital Transformation (Dx) Transform education through technology Home Digital Transformation (Dx) Driving Change Through Digital Strategy. Dx empowers Ontario institutions to personalize learning, streamline operations, and make smarter decisions. By embracing digital tools, institutions can adapt, support diverse learners, and drive innovation. Explore our resources to boost your resilience, relevance, and impact. Dx Self-Assessment […]

Tags: eCampusOntario, Dx

Added: 2026-03-09 15:32

A college student’s perspective on using AI in class : NPR

Instead of banning AI, why don’t schools teach students to use it critically? College freshman Maximilian Milovidov shares what he has learned in an “AI writing” course at Columbia University.

Tags: AI, NPR, academic integrity, via:Jason Kottke

Added: 2026-03-09 13:16

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

Tags: Meta, smart glasses, privacy, augmented reality

Added: 2026-03-09 09:31

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free

Convert your scanned handwriting into custom OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 fonts with local browser processing and vectorization. No account or uploads needed.

Tags: font, via:Hiro

Added: 2026-03-09 08:56

Linkblog - 2026-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:28:07 +0000

Week of Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2026

Dyson WashG1™ (Matte Black/Ultra Blue) | Owner’s page for Dyson WashG1™ wet cleaner | Dyson

Tags: Dyson, manual

Added: 2026-03-08 11:39

Four Transformations to Lean into as We Navigate GenAI in Higher Education | News | University of Calgary

This blog entry explores how Generative AI is reshaping postsecondary education, and encouraging educators to centre relationships in learning, assessment and collaboration.

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Students are co-creators of learning, not recipients of it. When we respond to GenAI with restriction, we model exactly the opposite of what students need: how to use powerful tools wisely, ethically, and in community.

Tags: person:Natasha Kenny, person:Lorelei Anselmo, UCalgary, GenAI, assessment

Added: 2026-03-06 11:03

Five Strategies to Enhance Online and Hybrid Learning through Faculty Development - Online Learning Consortium

Online and hybrid learning are now standard, not exceptions. However, many educators still feel unprepared, overwhelmed, or resistant when teaching online. They might have access to strong platforms and tools, but without proper guidance, those tools often go unused or are misapplied. That’s where faculty development truly makes a difference. When institutions support their educators, […]

Tags: faculty development, online learning, hybrid learning, Online Learning Consortium

Added: 2026-03-05 16:25

World Monitor - Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard

Real-time global intelligence dashboard with live news, markets, military tracking, infrastructure monitoring, and geopolitical data. OSINT in one view.

Tags: global, dashboard, via:Jason Kottke

Added: 2026-03-05 15:30

AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today’s guest blogger says academic librarians don’t need another class on how to use AI, but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of rushing innovations.

Tags: AI, library, career, stress, via:Robin DeRosa

Added: 2026-03-05 10:48

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

Tags: library, career, stress, values

Added: 2026-03-05 10:47

Stop Burning Your Context Window — We Built Context Mode | Mert Köseoğlu

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.

(but giving some random dev project that level of access to my computer sounds a little iffy…)

Tags: via:Cody Baxter, Claude, MCP, AI

Added: 2026-03-05 10:30

SDI Assessment | Crucial Learning

Discover the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), a powerful personality assessment to improve team dynamics, leadership, and conflict resolution. Unlock your team’s potential with personalized insights.

Tags: leadership, learning, workplace, via:Natasha Kenny

Added: 2026-03-04 15:09

Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison’s Weblog

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

Tags: person:Simon Willison, AI, vibecoding, design

Added: 2026-03-04 11:45

CAIELI AI Literacy Course Modules - Overview | Rise 360

This course is offered by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Literacy and Integrity at Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary.

As Artificial Intelligence transforms how

Tags: CAIELI, UCalgary, AI, Articulate, course

Added: 2026-03-04 10:57

AI-cademy Canada Summit for Post-Secondary Education

UBC, Nov. 9-10, 2026

This year’s conference reflects a shift in the national conversation. AI is no longer a speculative or future-facing topic. Institutions across Canada are experimenting, building governance frameworks, supporting faculty adoption, and rethinking academic and operational systems. The question is no longer whether AI will shape higher education, but how. We’re especially proud to be hosting AI-cademy in partnership with the University of British Columbia to support these conversations, share best practices and collectively advance the ethical adoption and advancement of AI.

Tags: UBC, HESA, AI, conference

Added: 2026-03-03 13:52

HyperCard Changed Everything

Before the web, there was HyperCard. It gave ordinary people the power to create, to explore – and even led to the best-selling computer game of all time. So, what happened to it?

What a great overview of the history of Hypercard.

Tags: via:Jason Kottke, Hypercard, multimedia, video,

Added: 2026-03-03 13:27

Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

CIP is designed to classify ‘instructional programs’, which are defined as:

A combination of courses and experiences that is designed to accomplish a predetermined objective or set of allied objectives such as preparation for advanced study, qualification for an occupation or range of occupations or simply the increase of knowledge and understanding (Chismore and Hill, A Classification of Educational Subject Matter, 1978, NCES, p. 165).

Tags: Stats Canada, classification, programs, microcredentials

Added: 2026-03-03 13:07

HazeOver: Distraction Dimmer™ for Productivity on Mac

Turn distractions down and focus on your current task. HazeOver automatically highlights the front window by dimming background windows.

Fixes the stupid thing in recent macOS versions where you have no idea which window is active and where keyboard input will go until you start typing and NOPE NOT THAT ONE.

Tags: via:John Gruber, macOS, software

Added: 2026-03-03 09:36

Copilot Learning Coach

A Copilot AI agent based on the prompt from my Course Coach LMS AI application.

Tags: AI, Copilot

Added: 2026-03-02 10:57

Why using ‘UX/UI’ in your job title is destroying your professional brand

User Experience is not a job function. It is an outcome—”experience” is defined as the emotional reaction to a moment in time that comes at the intersection of our memories of the past and our expectations of the future. In other words, it’s how we feel. It is shaped by the three lenses of the human emotional system, those being Reflective, Visceral, and Behavioral.

Tags: UX, design, via:davidicus

Added: 2026-03-02 09:08