I’m in Calgary doing some client work where I also met with Camille Jensen, a fellow Informl Unworkshop participant and Editor of the Alberta Distance Education & Training Asssociation’s newsletter, The Distance. Camille gave me a quick tour of downtown Calgary, including these supposedly wind-reducing statues:
As free-agents in the same field, we discussed all kinds [...]
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Via Jon Husband, one of the creators, is a new website called Constellation W. This bilingual, interactive information site looks at three threads of development - Technology, Economy, Society - that are currently entering new eras. The site lets you follow deeper explanatory links to examine the data, understand the past thirty years, and see [...]
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As all bloggers know, permalinks are the permanent universal resource identifiers used as addresses for blog posts. One post, one permalink. The permalink doesn’t change so that people can link and refer to it over time and it can easily be found.
Well, I guess I’ve commited permalink sacrilege because I changed the settings of my [...]
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Life is different from school in one significant way - in real life you get the test first and the lesson follows. I often say that we learn best from our mistakes, so I’ve definitely learned something this week.
One of my clients recently went into receivership. This is different from bankruptcy, as the Receiver informed [...]
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One of my first posts when I started this blog was a number of Book Reviews. Later that year, I listed some Books I would like to read, but I never got around to reading a single one of these. I did read several others, and wrote about this as Worthwhile Reading at the end [...]
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As I mentioned, we are moving ahead with the idea of The Tantramar Commons, and the next step is to develop a business plan. Guy Kawasaki’s Zen of business plans, is a perspective that suits me well. I’ve used his short pitch format for business models before and find it’s a good way to focus, [...]
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Christian Long’s post on the required use of handheld computing devices (PDA’s) for medical students is a good indicator of the changing nature of knowledge in all professions:
Sometimes schools get scared and annoyed, banning Google searches and iPods in the classrooms. Sometimes they go the opposite direction, believing that technology may actually make the [...]
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Few people would argue that the Internet has changed the way we work and live, even though there are some who may not realize how much life has changed and how great the business implications. If you follow Nine Shift, you’ll know that they predict this epochal change to be complete around 2020, when 75% [...]
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The UK Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) is proposing that there be no national curriculum for students under 16, instead opting for a locally negotiated course of studies based on competences rather than specific subjects.
“We need to give teachers the freedom to inspire youngsters so they want to learn, not just pass tests. We [...]
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Over the past few years, I have been influenced by some thinkers and innovators who believe that business as usual won’t address our needs for life and work in the next century. The open source software movement, Natural Capitalism, Dave Pollard’s work on the Natural Enterprise, Robert Paterson’s Going Home essay and the creation of [...]
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