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Operation Counterstrike (...more)
Caught in the middle and taking the brunt of the current labour dispute, UPEI's Student Union is becoming proactive in getting the parties back to the negotiating table. Using the power of networking they are mounting a viral campaign that...March 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Panthers make it four in a row (...more)
The UPEI Hockey Panthers are off to an incredible start to 2006. The picked up two road wins on the weekend, including this thrilling overtime victory, to make it four in a row. You can catch up on their season...January 16, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
2nd Annual Conference in Technology, Knowledge, & Society (...more)
On December 5th, 2005, I will be off to India, to present a paper at the second international conference in Technology, Knowledge, and Society in Hyderabad, and spend a couple of weeks touring around. My paper has the working title...November 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Panther Radio (...more)
Last night the Hockey Panthers, and the Panther Radio team finished up the first half of their season. Read about it on BEATblogNovember 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Presenting in Milan (...more)
Buongiorno. I'm here in Milan at the Open Culture: accessing and sharing knowledge conference. I'm listening to Fabio Vitali describe "ISA" - a cross-platform tool and framework for creating, sharing, and colloborating on, professional documents online. Once again, it is...June 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Stopping in Milan to present at Open Culture conference (...more)
I'm adding a stop on my Europe itinerary to present a paper at the conference Open Culture: accessing and sharing knowledge in Milan, Italy from June 27-29th. The paper, entitled "Community Plumbing in Action" includes a description of the BEAT...June 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Radio@UPEI update: Election Madness (...more)
This campaign has not been in vain. Here in another Radio@UPEI update (mp3 45min 20mb) you'll find: a short documentary recounting the highlights of our coverage of UPEI's recent student council elections. a brief update on the Radio@UPEI project (new...May 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Introducing Radio@UPEI (...more)
Over the course of the last few months our BEAT team, in partnership with a student organization known as UPEI Independent Student Media, has been involved in reviving independent media on the campus of the University of Prince Edward Island....February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
BEAT 1.0 (...more)
My schedule this Fall has been dominated by our development of the BEAT Program and its early initiatives. BEAT, you'll recall, is a new inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional program at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) and Holland College, which, with...November 7, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Spring '04 Semester Recap (...more)
I had a better time with my courses this semester thanks, in part, to the extensive use of weblogs. Spring '04 Recap - Networking, Knowledge & the Digital Age Spring '04 Recap - MIS for the Information Age I know...May 24, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Introducing BEAT (...more)
UPEI hired me, primarily, to lead in their efforts to make Management Information Systems a core strength of the business school and to re-orient the program, in all its myriad roles, to take full advantage of this Networking Age. So...May 14, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
MIS Student Research (...more)
My Bus241 course wraps up next week and students have been furiously at work on the finishing touches to web sites which summarize the findings of their team research. For most of these students, this course was their first introduction...April 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Blogging the focus of Cadre Editorial (...more)
On the morning of Friday, March 26th, Jevon MacDonald, Rob Paterson and I presented some ideas about social software in a university setting to a small group of our faculty. I invited along Sean Brady, the (recently appointed) managing editor...March 30, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
S�bastien Paquet guestblogs on NKDA (...more)
S�bastien Paquet, researcher in the eLearning group at the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Information Technology in Moncton, New Brunswick, and rising web luminary, is guestblogging over on my NKDA course blog. In this installment Seb explains his...March 25, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Does anyone care about campus radio? (...more)
Since I've returned to the Island, I've been telling anyone around campus who'll listen that the University lost something when campus radio station CIMN died. I thought I was the only one who felt this way. But, last week I...February 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
Tentative Agreement reached (...more)
The UPEIFA Bargaining Team has reached a tentative agreement with the UPEI Administration for a first collective agreement for Bargaining Unit #1 (faculty, librarians, sessionals, clinical nursing instructors). Details on the agreement, along with the date of an information meeting...February 5, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Student newspaper gets dirty (...more)
Been keeping up with the news of a possible strike at UPEI? Imagine my shock when I opened last week's Cadre (the student newspaper) to find this x rated cartoon. I'm sure that many students don't feel at all like...January 16, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Student feedback can be brutal (...more)
I just got the chance to view my student feedback questionaire's - given anonymously near the end of the semester. Comments were all over the place....everything from 'instructor is a breath of fresh air for the University' to 'most useless...December 19, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
End of first semester classes (...more)
Ok I'm convinced. Being a prof doesn't suck. It's not easy......but it doesn't suck. Now that I have a semester of teaching under my belt I think I can say with some clarity that I know what the job fully...November 28, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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