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  • If Flickr was crack for shutterbugs… this is why you would go Pro

    photophlow is the super concentrated crack filled with chocolate and then drenched in ambrosia that you get paid for even thinking about… ok, maybe that is a bit over the top. But this tool is an amazing addition to the mashups that surround flickr. Yahoo bought up flickr as likely as not to gain access…

  • Hybrid Learning – Single Stream

    While I was looking for some resources as to what others have thought about hybrid learning, I found this short THE article. Now while this one also talks about hybrid learning as a single stream and using the online element as the major teaching motivator and the face to face as the scaffolding to frame…

  • For your College Crew

    I came across “Big Think” as a YouTube like resource recently and watching this video, right around 1:00 to 1:42, Steve Pinker mentions one of the best ways to write about science, and indeed, perhaps how to teach it as well. Essentially, treat your audience as a colleague who is just as smart as you…

  • Using Moodle, The Book…?

    If you are still reading manuals “old school”, there is a print (Jason Cole and Helen Foster, O’Rielly) version as well, but the latest version of the Using Moodle book is online (and likely has been for a month… but what work gets done is December right?).

  • Bad Rogers II & Copyright

    Well, it seems that Google isn’t overly happy with what Rogers did either when it plastered it’s own content on the Google search page. Between this and the new copyright bill, it seems that the Harper government is leading Canada down a cloning road to match the conditions in the US. Thankfully, the copyright bill…