(English version) Ces dernières années, j’ai travaillé sur deux grandsconcepts: d’abord, la théorie de l’apprentissage en ligne connectivist, quiconsidère l’apprentissage comme un processus de réseau et, deuxièmement, lemassif cours ouverts en ligne, ou MOOC, qui est une instanciation de ceprocessus. Ceux-ci, cependant, ne représentent que la plus récente de ce
Continue readingHalf an Hour: E-Learning Generations
(version française) In recent years I have been working on two major concepts:first, the connectivist theory of online learning, which views learning as anetwork process; and second, the massive open online course, or MOOC, which isan instantiation of that process. These, however, represent only the mostrecent of what can be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper Defunds Mennonite Church Group
Dennis Gruending predicted it in his last outing: CIDA will soon abandon a number of its long-standing development partners among Canadian NGOs, including a number of church-based organizations. Reliable sources say that a number of those groups will see their funding ended or curtailed this year. And indeed the axe
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: More not-net-zero reality
In Failing healthcare managers still paid handsomely, I noted that average earnings of the top 10 people at the Fraser Health Authority rose almost $4,500 per month between 2008 and 2011. That represented a 21% increase to FHA, indicating generosity that surprises considering the difficulties FHA has had in delivering
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism leader helps UNB remain at forefront of autism intervention training
The University of New Brunswick has engaged a renowned expert to examine best practices in autism treatment. Dr. David Celiberti is president of the Association for Science and Autism Treatment. His report, commissioned by UNB’s College of Extended Learning (CEL), examines program quality indicators already in place in other jurisdictions.
Continue readingSmall differences emerging
While we await Sunday’s NDP leadership debate from Quebec City – the first fully French event that is going to tax the bilingual capacities of the seven candidates – here’s a piece from Joan Bryden to keep you busy in the meantime. Bryden actually went and waded through the policy documents of
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: NC dad shoots laptop on YouTube, daughter is doing fine
North Carolina father Tommy Jordan, who works in IT, was not impressed with a FB posting by his 15 year old, and responded with a video which has had over 6.5 million hits in 3 days. Dad posted this yesterday afternoon on his FB page. Tommy Jordan For those that
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Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Forum poll revealed: With an iPhone and a blog, we can now predict poll results before they’re published!
Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith with the voice of Forum Research Inc. She’s smiling because she likes his answers. Alberta pollsters and politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Dave, about to hang up on another poll. ForumPoll3 by djclimenhaga Forum Research Inc. of Toronto was back in the
Continue readingI Heard My Brainstem Screaming.
PariahRevisited TheHorrorVille I was going to write about the faux-triumphalistic return of Gordon Campbell to the Vancouver Board of Cronies….errrr….’Trade’ when I got home this evening. Honest, I was. More specifically, I had planned to fisk every single one of his self-serving statements of egregious codswallopanariasm that were supposed to
Continue readingThis year’s embarrassing rap moment at CPAC. Play Count the N-words.
This is incredible. This white rap duo, featuring “occasional Fox News contributor Steven Crowder and rapping pal Chris Loesch, married to the conservative political analyst Dana Loesch”, performed this rap song at the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). You have to watch this. It’s hard to do
Continue readingMontreal Simon: In Praise of the National Film Board: Part Two
A few weeks ago I brought you the short movie Wild Life, the sad story of an Englishman who wanted to be a cowboy in Alberta, courtesy of the National Film Board. Since then I’ve learned that the movie, by Calgary filmmakers Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, has been nominated
Continue readingArt Threat: Swedish beats and archival treats – Friday Film Pick: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
One of the best documentaries to emerge from 2011 is the incredibly inspired, polished and dreamy The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. A treasure trove of hundreds of hours of 16 and 35mm footage shot by Swedish journalists and filmmakers during that tumultuous and very eventful period in the US has been
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Another satellite for Venezuela
Looks like Simón Bolívar will have even more company in orbit. In addition to his Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, he’s going to be joined by another Venezuelan satellite, named after another independence hero: The new satellite, “Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda”, represents a great leap for the development of technological independence
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Pension Scam
Well even by Jimbo Flaherty’s ghastly standards it was a bizarre and ugly sight. There he was late this afternoon, looking like he wanted to hide under a chair, or in his case a small stool. Sweating profusely, talking in a hoarse whisper, and promising you don’t have to worry
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4201…The Police
You have seen them before. You will see them again. So why in the name of our Lord do you have to slow down on the free way when you see a copper who has pulled over some one else? Happens everywhere. Today it happened on the 417 westbound. To
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Little Green Lies: Prime Minister Harper and Canada’s Environment
438px-Stephen_Harper_by_Remy_Steinegger.jpg This is a guest post by Dr. David R. Boyd, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and author of The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment. Originally published at iPolitics. Is Stephen Harper the worst prime minister that Canada has ever had,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4200…Tomorrow Is Hockey Day In Canada
I feel it. Habs over Toronto. Scott Gomez gets a Gordie Howe hat trick.WFDS
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: When churches turn a blind eye
Spiritual abusers take the authority given to them as gospel ministers that is to be used to help people grow closer to God, and they pervert that authority into power used to lord over people, to coerce, manipulate, and swindle them in order to punish, or to convince them to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Business Does a Sitting Government Have Proclaiming Policies Another Government Would Have to Introduce?
When Harper was in Davos he was practically busting to tell the high priced nobs that he was going to trim Canada’s sails, especially our nation’s Old Age Security programme. That promptly backfired sending Tory MPs slithering for cover into their favourite dark places. Not to worry. Tiny Jim Flaherty,
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