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I read a lot. I know this because I keep track of it. The first year I kept track was from summer 2007 to summer 2008. I was taking the bus to UBC every day and had a lot of time to read. I read 54 books that year. Yes, I averaged over one a […]
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Yep, moved the site again. I decided that Drupal wasn’t what I needed (the security exploit that let someone infect my entire domain wasn’t fun). It’s taken me nearly a month to learn enough to pull everything out of my database and put it into a WP database, turned out it was a minor problem […]
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driving into a jungle of steel and girder cut off from the earth beneath me by rubber and asphalt I yearn for peaceful days by the river where the water burbled past the stones and gathered in the pools of leaping into the liquid ice – and feeling alive a building made of cedar and […]
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“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work” -Chuck Close
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I was reading Lowering Higher Education by James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar recently and was intrigued by their chapter on Technologies. In it they discuss the concept of Digital Natives and whether or not they require a different style of teaching or have a different understanding of learning. Do Digital Natives require a […]
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Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education by James E. Côté My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you are at all interested or involved in Higher Education I recommend you read this book. If the government and schools were to implement even some of their recommendations I […]
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Looks like it’s been posted: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392115,00.asp Let’s recap my prediction: So, here’s my prediction: in the next 2-3 weeks Sony will announce a new ebook reader. It will be touch screen. It will be a pearl e-ink display. And it will retail for under $180. Well I called it, though I was two months early. […]
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So it looks like I was a bit premature in my last post. Sony is bringing out a new reader this year… but it’s not until September 🙁