Tag: Rant
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The liberating shakles of PIMs
Well it happened again – for whatever reason, it seems that every few months or so the sync process has a hiccup and some of the meticulously gathered and all too important data on my computers, PDA, and now my phone gets scrambled. Before when it was just the Macs doing their thing it was…
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Violence in Video Games
… gets out the soapbox… I’ve been chatting with a colleague here in the faculty about video game violence, and he asked me for my two cents on the topic and (with some revision to cut out identifiers and stuff that is already posted frequently here) I’ll post them here. My take on the issue…
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Is it the Tool or the Teaching?
… dusts off soap box Yesterday, in one of those impromptu hallway type meetings, a group of people working on various project all started to vent about video conferencing and how it seems that the Alberta Government is not really paying attention to what is needed in the education system (any surprises there?). School boards…
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Jaded Eye Look at Email
…dusts off soap box, climbs on and assumes ranting pose Last week, one of the sessions that I went to was regarding the use of email. It wasn’t what I expected, I thought it was going to be something new and interesting, rather it was just a list of what essentially amounted to “netiquette”. I…
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Free Computer with Tuition
Well it seems that that government here in Alberta thinks that deregulation is the cure to all ills – get this (from the Edmonton Sun: The Alberta government is considering free tuition for students’ first two years of post-secondary education, says Advanced Education Minister Dave Hancock. With Alberta’s tuition fees the second highest in the…