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366photos halfway mark

We hit the half way mark on Sunday night. 366/2. That’s a lot of photos. It’s been amazing to see so many people take up the project, and watching them learn and grow as photographers and artists.

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Spore Creature Creator

I’ve been following Spore since I saw the first demo at TED.

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on learning communities

I’ve been working on organizing a project I’ve called “Learning Communities” here at UCalgary. It’s still a bit amorphous, but that’s actually part of the plan. What I’m going to do is offer resources and support to any communities on campus so that they can effectively get together and share what they’re doing.

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Morning Commute BikeCam

dorkcamI picked up a Flip Ultra video camera this weekend, and one of the things I wanted to try was strapping it to m

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2000km in 2008 (so far)

That’s like riding from Calgary to Vancouver and back. Or Calgary to Thunder Bay. Heck, I could have ridden from Calgary to San Francisco, with over 400km to spare. hmmm….

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Enough about EDUPUNK, let’s talk about me!

Image of PorcuJim

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on edupunk

Jim’s been talking about edupunk a fair bit lately (starting with the killer post The Glass Bees, then Permapunk and finally tying in the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem wikipedia project), and

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EDUPUNK poster boy

Rev. EduPunk

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Preaching teetotaler from opening scene of The Wild Bunch

Here is a great scene featuring a preaching teetotaler (Reverend Wainscott) from Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant The Wild Bunch —definitely in my top five, maybe top three films of all time.

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educational simulations

I’ve been collecting some links to interesting educational simulations to show faculty members. There’s some great stuff out there. The list is NOT comprehensive, and I’m not including LOTS of great simulations. This is just the list I give to faculty members asking about effective educational simulations.

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