June 2007
4 posts
user experience @ sfu
<p>This morning on the CBC’s <a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.cbc.ca/earlyedition/”>early edition</a>, Rick interviewed Qixing Zheng, “<em>Microsoft Canada’s first User Experience Advisor</em>“. I was surprised they were doing such an interview in the first place, but more so...
May 2007
34 posts
Last.fm Acquired By CBS
Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia). The team here have spent a lot of time this year discussing what the future should hold for Last.fm, and while contemplating raising some additional venture capital we were...
CBS Acquires Europe’s Last.fm for $280 million →
*cringe*
why am i terrified that this is the beginning of the end?
Launch: Google Maps adds Street View
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Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference...
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EDUCAUSE REVIEW | March/April 2007, Volume 42,...
An article I should forward to my collegues at SFU. (via education building)
Drawing: Draw floorplans, diagrams and charts...
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sasquatch lite
Too bad I’m not making it to Sasquatch this weekend. Thankfully I’m satisfied with seeing two of the main headliners over the past two gorgeous evenings, Björk and The Arcade Fire. If these two shows are any indication, the gorge goers are in for a supremo festival experience. Of the bazillion other cool bands in attendance, I’ll most regret missing M.I.A. (who apparently cant...
Google School: Compare items with Google
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Research: Build bibliographies fast with BibMe
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Faculty Academy 2007: One School to Rule them All
Well, its hard to believe, but the University of Mary Washingtons Faculty Academy is just five short days away -May 16th and 17th. For those of you who may be new to it, this is a unique event that has been held annually for the last 12 years at UMW to feature the uses of technology to enhance, augment and re-imagine various approaches to teaching and learning. We have an action packed line up...
It Really Is Really Simple: RSS for Educators
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Bookmarking: Eight ways to improve your...
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Yahoo interview
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Quicksilver as a Productivity Tool
This is cross posted over at TechLearning In my role as a building administrator, I often find myself working to document my interactions with students and staff in a way that allows me the greatest flexibility and also provides a date and time stamp that makes reviewing and documenting the interactions easy. Recently I have been exploring the use of a Mac OS X application called Quicksilver....
“May 14, 2007 Canada Much to our chagrin, on the heels of our being forced to...”
– Pandora: Canada
Blogs in Education
This page is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students. (via education building)
KeyFactors
Key Factors in Postgraduate Research - AGuide for Students (via education building)
why are we testing?
A great video on joho blog today, will kick off a new category for education.building on, organization. While discussing his new book Everything Is Miscellaneous, the guru of the topic goes off a bit on his public school system. Fortunately, I had the time to watch the whole thing and pulled out a great quote. […] (via education building)
How eclectic is the musical preference of draggin?
Thanks to anthony for posting this nifty script.
My eclectic score is currently 82/100
The 82 related artists for my profile are A Tribe Called Quest (2) Aerosmith Aesop Rock (2) AIR (2) Aphex Twin (3) At the Drive-In Atmosphere Autechre Belle and Sebastian Black Flag Black Sabbath Blackalicious Boards of Canada (2) Bonobo Broken Social Scene (3) Brother Ali (2) Coldplay Common Cypress Hill Del...
tokyoplastic drum machine
Just watched a new tokyoplastic video, which made me hunt down some of the old ones. Drum Machine, (the latest) is being hosted on albino blacksheep, but more of them can be found at http://www.tokyoplastic.com/ (be sure to troll through the archive) Like Music box… http://www.tokyoplastic.com/musicbox.html which is AMAZING, and although I couldn’t find a link from the website, I...
*bounce*
Last nights show was, as expected, totally rocking!
I am in fact, still bouncing all over the house to LCD Soundsystem, similar artist radio. Hearing lots of Out Hud and !!! on this station, who btw, are playing tonight at richards. (wish i had it in me to pull a double shift)
Alas, i think i will have stay home and rest with my sweetie. The month May still holds PLENTY of musical delights,...
play nice on facebook
late into work today because there was a facebook story on ‘the current’ (cbc radio), that started as i was walking out the door. Some kid was making jokes about his teacher masturbating in class. He “didnt realize she could see it” and was pissed off he got into trouble… pffffftt as if.
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Observing Cassette Culture: Thesis now available
yay for finishing projects! The above picture was taken about an hour before my final final deadline. I am not even sure how I managed to pull this off, and yet here I am, done my masters degree. Its especially gratifying doing this level of work on a topic that I am so fond of, and has received such little academic inquiry. (these are the kind of things i can say now) Once again, a big bunch of...
Wolf Parade – Dinner Bells (Album) →
Broken Social Scene – Finish Your Collapse and... →
Devendra Banhart – Me and Andy Singing El Rio →
Deerhoof – Twin Killers →
Explosions in the Sky – From West Texas →
Explosions in the Sky – The Birth and Death of the... →
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tumble on.
