For some reason this information is really hard to find through Google. Often in my work at OLT we are trying to reuse remix and redistribute a bunch static content from WordPress sites around our campus. In order to do so we need to find feeds for those sites that are just for one post [...]
This term I took Computer Science 444 – “Advanced Methods for Human-Computer Interaction”. The main outcome of the course was to go through the process of designing a user interface and evaluating it using formal experiments, producing a paper at the end. I had the pleasure of working with 4 absolutely fantastic team-mates, Piam Kiarostami , Gabe Silk , alexandru Totolici , and Jre [...]
The idea here is that games and school have more in common than does school and life. So perhaps, instead of finding ways of engaging students by turning to real life, we should be turning to game design. How is school like a game? Both School and Video games are highly repetitive environments where you overcome deliberate [...]
Over the last 6 months I have given two presentations on the ideas of Personal Learning Environments/Networks. The first one was in late August for UBC Jump Start , a 2 week orientation program for students that I attended in my first year at UBC and that provided me with great friends and learning experiences. The second presentation [...]
In my last post I wrote about CCK09, the online course on connectivism and connected learning that I was taking part in. Since then I have dropped out of that course to focus on something very different to connected learning… myself. Why: Ironically, the catalyst for this change of heart was my blog post on CCK09. Jeff Fong [...]