Friday is the final deadline for session proposal submissions for the third annual Northern Voice — a conference dedicated to weblogs and social software hosted here at UBC, February 23-24. Attendee registration is also open, and a mere fifty bucks gets you two days of rich, chocolatey, new webby goodness. If I wasn’t part of […]
Read more "All Hail the Mighty Moose"Via OLDaily, Norm Friesen has just posted the third installment of his “E-Learning Myths” series, this one entitled The Myth of the Knowledge Economy. It ain’t easy reading, but I wish every edublogger who has praised The World is Flat [cue sound of my teeth grinding] would take some time to reflect on Friesen’s argument: […]
Read more "A quick pointer to some slow reading…"So if it ain’t trying to keep up with grading, or the annual grant writing frenzy, it’s something else… I’m having enough trouble keeping up with email. And I won’t even get into the local boil-water advisories and Vancouver’s annual crippling snowstorm (which pushed this morning’s bus commute to nearly three hours — thankfully I […]
Read more "Abject apologies…"Nov. 28 – Update below… Last night I received the following communication in my UBC email inbox, with a blank subject line: Dear Mr. Lamb, My name is J***** P*****, I’m currently a Junior in high school doing a project in history answering the question “What is Power?” I have a quick question that I […]
Read more "In which I offer guidance to the next generation of leaders…".flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Nice spot for a track, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. The blog has been quiet, and I doubt I will make much of a splash this week as I’m hip-deep in backlogged […]
Read more "A day at the races…"