Instructions for a Bad Day
Yesterday was Pink Shirt Day in Canada. A day to stand up to bullying. It also marked the release of this video, created by students at G.P. Vanier school in Courntay, BC. It is a touching video about...
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Show us what you learned
June is conference season, and this year we had a number of people attending regional conferences here in BC. Many of my colleagues in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Royal Roads attended ETUG...
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Look at what a beautiful thing being open can bring
Look at what happens when you share in public. Scientists discover beautiful new insect species after stumbling upon photos on Flickr Another example of the kinds of amazing things that happen to...
View ArticleA Culture of Innovation
A few weeks ago, I read a blog post from Jim Groom that really resonated and inspired me (as Jim’s posts often do). This particular post started off talking about 3D printing, but then morphed into a...
View ArticleLove and hate are beasts and the one you feed is the one that grows
The region I live in asking some pretty hard questions these days about cyberbullying in the wake of the story of a 15 year old Port Coquitlam girl named Amanda Todd who took her own life after being...
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Leadership
I have been thinking a lot about leadership lately. Perhaps it is because our Director has recently moved on to another position with another organization and I (as well as the other manager in my...
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Buzzkill (or these are not simple times we live in)
Yesterday was Black Friday. But yesterday was also Buy Nothing Day, and this post in in the spirit of Buy Nothing day. This video keeps popping up on my Facebook feed. You might have seen it. At first...
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Supporting what I use
This past week, I have been spending money, primarily getting ready for the upcoming holiday season. But along the way I’ve also been spending some money and supporting a few of the free online...
View ArticleWhat we can learn about copyright from fashionistas
I have a whole new respect for the fashion industry after viewing this brilliant TED talk from Johanna Blakely called “Lessons from fashion’s free culture.” In a nutshell, Blakely’s argument is that an...
View ArticleThe beginning of a great adventure
Seems like it wasn’t that long ago when I wrote a post a lot like this. 2 years, almost to the day in fact, when I accepted the position I have now as the manager of Learning Technologies at Royal...
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This is not my web
#bbpBox_335085760724209664 a { text-decoration:none; color:#505C56; }#bbpBox_335085760724209664 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }So after a lot of thought, I've decided to scrap the comments...
View ArticleThose auto-magic algorithms are getting pretty slick
Today I got to work, powered up my Nexus tablet and saw a notification in the notification area I have never seen before that said “4 auto-awesome videos” What the heck is that? So I check it out and...
View ArticleBuild the web you want and support what you use: the 2013 edition
It’s that time of the year when it is time for me to support what I use and encourage you to do the same. Of all the “business models” in our culture today, I think that the donation/subscription model...
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Why I disabled Ad-Block
I find website ads annoying, so for many years I’ve used the Firefox Ad-Block add-on to block adverts on websites. Today I disabled it. Not that I was unhappy with it or anything like that. It has...
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Time to add some nuance to the phrase “screen time”
This post is borne out of the occasional frustrating conversations I’ve had with other parents at my kids school. I am part of the PAC at our elementary (k-5) school, and we have just begun talking...
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Maybe it is because it is back to school time
I used to have a thing for stationary. When I was a kid, shopping for school supplies was the highlight of the back to school routine. Reams of paper bundled in clear plastic film, boxes of unsharpened...
View ArticleSupporting what I use
For the past couple of years I’ve made it a point during this season to try to provide some financial support to the web tools and services I use that are open. And by open, I mean that are free to...
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Check your Telus contract
Telus has announced that they will begin charging users who go over their monthly cap. They also rolled out a new user website where people who use Telus can monitor their monthly data usage. I am a...
View ArticleNecessary Illusions
I’m getting grumpier. It comes and goes, but I find myself yelling “get off my damn lawn!” more than the laid back 20 year old hackysack playing me would have ever even thought possible. Is this really...
View ArticleWe destroy that which we love the most
Note: I wrote this in September of 2014 when the Minecraft sale to Microsoft was first announced. I don’t know why I didn’t publish it then. But I came across it today in my drafts and felt the need to...
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