Educational Communications & Technology :: A newish weblog from Rick Schwier, one of my profs in the Educational Communication and Technology program at the University of Saskatchewan. The archives aren’t quite figured out yet (maybe I should enlighten him about TypePad!) but he had an interesting post about wikis and [...]
9:10 – after some introductions and handshakes around the room, Brent is sitting down and Rick is giving an impressive intro. Jay is videotaping the proceedings – this may show up on one of Rick’s classes in the future ;^)
BTW I apologize in advance for all misspellings of people’s names. Feel free to comment [...]
In about 10 minutes, Brent Wilson will be here in the hidden room in the Education building at the University of Saskatchewan for an informal chat with students in the Masters of Educational Communication and Technology program. We’re doing a lot of talking about blogs in the field these days, so it only seemed [...]
cogdogblog: Print Styles for MovableType Blogs :: A big tip o the hat to Alan Levine from Maricopa Community College for his instructions on creating style sheets to make printed pages from Movable Type look nice.
Now if only I could do something like that in TypePad [...]
Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered :: If you ever wanted to know why you should move to using CSS for layout instead of tables, read this. Thanks to elearnspace
The Problem with Abundance :: Remember Peter de Jager? He was one of the prime prophets of Y2K apocalypse scenarios – I’m sure producers of gas powered generators are still living well thanks to him. He has aparently metamorphosed into a futurist (which is somewhat like being a religious prophet, but with better [...]
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Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.

