Analog Twitter
… or “What I Would Have Tweeted Today Had I Been Near My Computer And/Or Not Afraid To Tweet With My Phone In Case Bell Tries To Charge Me To Do So Despite My Having A Texting Plan As Per This News Story.” →Read more
Mental Health Camp 2009
On Saturday, April 25, 2009, Vancouver will host its first unconference on Mental Health. It all started with a panel held at Northern Voice this year – Coping Digitally. This panel got a lot of positive feedback and I think everyone there felt like they really wished there had been more time to discuss all […] →Read more
Stuff and Such
Tomorrow we have to swtich our clocks for Daylight Saving Time. Spring forward, fall back. I hate Daylight Saving Time. Here’s a little secret: you don’t actually get more daylight, you just shift when in the day you get it. Hours of actual daylight – the same. All this is going to do is make […] →Read more
NSERC Cutting Masters Scholarships To Just One Year
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), one of the three federal funding agencies for research in Canada, has cut the amount of funding that a Master’s student can get through their Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS) down to one year. It is impossible to complete a natural sciences1 Masters program in a year. Most Masters […] →Read more
Beer Pong: It’s All Fun And Games Until Somebody Gets Herpes
I <3 Stephen Colbert! more about “The Colbert Report : March 3, 2009 : …“, posted with vodpod Note: If the above embedded video doesn’t work, you can watch the clip here. If you are Canada anyway. If you are in the US, apparently you can’t watch clips from the Comedy Network (just like we […] →Read more
Student Loan Update
So, I usually try to ignore the status of my student loan repayment. Part of my paycheque goes into a separate bank account (at a separate bank1) and automatic payments are made from that account to my student loans every month. And I try to not look at that account. Once in a while I’ll […] →Read more
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Things That Are Making Me Happy Today: olives stuffed with jalapeño peppers getting to play hockey on the big rink frozen homemade cookie dough Things That Are Not Making Me Happy Today: sleep deprivation too much work to do not enough time →Read more
NVIVO 8 Workshop
Looks like it’s conference/workshop season for me. Last week was Educamp, today is a workshop on using NVIVO 8 qualitative data analysis software (and Friday I have a workshop on “Problem-Oriented Learning”). So today’s blog posting is going to be my notes from the workshop… which will probably be interesting to about 0.01% of my […] →Read more
Goal Drought
There are only four games left in the hockey season1 and I have ridiculously bad stats. The weird thing is, I haven’t felt like I’ve been playing badly. In fact, I feel like I’ve been playing better than last year. I feel like my skating has improved (I even remember to keep my feet moving […] →Read more
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Two things have happened recently that really reminded my why I love teaching so much. First, I got an email from a student who took my course last term. That course was a seminar-based course in which students all had to do class presentations. So I gave them a presentation on how to give effective […] →Read more