I just deployed a new Wordpress weblog to manage the APOLLO Project Website. It’s a Wordpress 1.3 Alpha site, which gives me a place to play around with the latest builds of WP, and it also gives us a nice and easy way to officially publish information about APOLLO and related activities.
Read MoreWe were talking today about how to be more strategic with our various inter-related projects (and specifically with the communication of status and plans), and the idea of some form of blended learning strategic advisory council was raised. The theory would be to have representatives from various organizations (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Alberta Learning, BCCampus, and any other relevant organizations) working together to share strategic planning for projects related to blended learning.
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He didn’t freak out at all this year (like he did last year). Santa looks more nervous than Evan does… :-)
We just put up the tree, and will be counting the days before it becomes an indoor jungle gym for the boy…
Read MoreThe Speakers and Schedule for Northern Voice were just announced. That looks like a pretty full docket - and one heck of a fine bunch of speakers. The problem is going to be choosing which sessions to attend ;-)
My day will look like this:
ps. please forgive them for their evil “browser detection” script, for they know not what they do…
Read MoreI received notification today that our Big Session of Pachyderm Fun is a go for Museums and the Web 2005 (Vancouver, April 13-16, 2005). Josh, Michelle, Tom and myself will be presenting a session called Architecting the Elephant: Software Architecture and User Interface Design for Pachyderm 2.0.
This will be the first public showing of the new Pachyderm 2.0 authoring tool, which is now pretty tightly integrated with the APOLLO frameworks.
The session is on Thursday, April 14, 2004, from 3:30-5:00pm. We share the slot with some other Pachyderm-related presentations as part of the “Introducing Pachyderm” session, so it should be interesting to anyone who has been following Pachyderm, APOLLO, or learning object authoring in general.
Read MoreAnother comment spammer just attempted to crap on my blog. WordPress and the plugins I use stopped him/her cold, and their subnet is now banned (I know that’s heavy handed, but screw ’em).
I checked the stats from Site Meter, and it looks like this clown found my blog by searching Google for the term “wiki” - and slogged through 29 pages of results to get to me. 29 pages of results. Do these people really value their time so poorly? I know they don’t value mine, but I simply can’t imagine slogging through 29 pages of search results in the hopes of finding a blog or wiki to crap on. Knowing full well that the crap will be removed within minutes, if it’s even allowed through in the first place.
Read MoreThis sounds interesting… A new dead-trees and online Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects. They’ve put out the call for papers… Not sure if this will fare better than Pitch did/does, but maybe a dead-trees journal carries more cred with the higher ed. folks?
I’d have tossed this to del.icio.us instead of blogging it, but the Del is acting up today…
Read MoreRosemary Sanchez is the resident Flash Girl in The Learning Commons. She’s working on some really cool stuff, creating learning objects in Flash, and working on some stuff for the Pachyderm project.
She recently started blogging! I’ve already subscribed, and am looking forward to her quirky style and sense of humour. Now, if only we can get some more of the Learning Commons folks blogging…
Read MoreJust booked airfare and conference registration for NorthernVoice - the Canadian webloggers’ conference (Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005 at UBC in Vancouver). Kinda like a Great White North BloggerCon.
I’ll be getting up rather early (have to be at the Calgary airport at 5am) - and am leaving Vancouver on a 7pm flight. That’s going to be interesting. But at least I’ll be there for the whole conference. I’m really looking forward to seeing what the Canadian weblog geek scene is up to!
Read MoreSince I’m totally addicted to my iPod, iTunes and the iTMS, I might as well participate in The Great Playlist Meme of ‘04. It goes like this:
Here’s my list: (a couple embarrassing tracks included)
Read MoreI just got an email from Brian Lamb to let me know that 2 of the amigos are going mano a mano in the 2004 Weblog Awards: Best Canadian Blog category.
Not sure why I got nominated over the many many (many) other excellent Canadian weblogs. But I’m flattered. I’m getting my ass kicked in the poll, but I’m flattered ;-)
Anyway, vote early, vote often. Now, if only they had the Diebold Vote Multiplier 3000 installed for this…
Read MoreI’ve been waiting for this for quite some time now. I activated my account, provided my visa number, and eagerly entered the store.
And, was completely paralyzed by the selection. Which album to buy? Which track? Where to go first? Completely paralyzed. I eventually bought U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb - comes complete with liner notes in PDF. Bandwidth is surprisingly slow, but that’s not really an issue, and I’m guessing they’re getting hammered pretty heavily right now.
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