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Randy Thornton, proprietor of the Metamedia blog, rocks! He recently wrote and performed his own song about Twitter called “Still tweeting 4U”. I love this kinda stuff—this is who we are, damn it! It may be a country song, but it’s all EDUPUNK in my mind: have fun, create, innovate, do. And when you bring music into this formula, whatever genre, it’s always good!

Let's see... we've got a law firm SEO, a social media consultant, and a KM, Library & Information Management consultancy. How about a company specializing in legal information cost recovery?

In yet another indictment of today’s youngsters, a recent study in the United Kingdom has revealed today’s brightest do not match the intellect of the top students in the 1970’s. In simplest terms, researchers from King’s College London report that the intellectual level of the brightest 14-year-olds today mirrors the cognitive abilities of the best 12-year-olds in 1976.

• NSSE 2008 Results

  Results from the National Survey of Student Engagement. The full report has limited information about online learning, but does include results showing that students in online courses report more deep learning, intellectual challenge, and reflection than those in face-to-face courses.

  tags: education, e-learning, research

  Source: Experiencing E-Learning
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Most everyone in the Vancouver law library community knows that Susan Crysler recently left us for an opportunity to work in Bermuda.

Well, I'm happy to relay that the local newspaper, The Royal Gazette, has picked up the story, with a news item about her joining the firm Mello Jones & Martin (MJM).

We're happy you've landed safely Susan! Please keep in touch. :)

The 'Dokeos Users Days' is THE conference for Dokeos users and developers, and it's happening in Geneva on December 4-5, 2008. Registration is now open and the program is available on the conference website.

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Philly Independence (Weekly Press), Lifting limitations (Greenville News), Colorado choice (Face the State) and much more.

I attended a meeting of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group (RPAG) in London a couple of weeks ago.  Part of my reason for attending was to respond (semi-formally) to the proposals being put forward by Rachel Heery in her update to the original Repositories Roadmap that we jointly authored back in April 2006.

Law societies in most provinces have guidelines for continuing professional development (CPD), and traditionally, credits for that CPD have been earned by attending CLE seminars and workshops.

In BC, 2009 will mark the introduction of a formal, compulsory Continuing Professional Development program. The Benchers of the Law Society of BC have approved an extended list of other activities that qualify for CPD, including:

• writing law books or articles,
• participating in video or web broadcasts of CLE seminars,
• teaching a law-related course.
  
  Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog
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This is classic, and it’s so bad it’s almost good, which is what scares me about it.  But the misinformation campaign being run here about openness is dangerous, and the portrayal of  Bb NG as “a hip stud” who gets all the hot girls because he is so Web 2.0 just tells you how much Bb mocks you, abuses you, and insults your intelligence. Looks like everything I remarked on in The Glass Bees post is playing itself out quite well, “BlackBoard Can Haz All Ur Web 2.0z!”

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Image Credit: “Sometimes pictures just compose themselves” by phxpma.

Re-visiting my overflowing WFMU feed is always a pleasure, and last night I actually spent some time listening to The J’s with Jamie’s “Hey, Look Us Over!”, and while I wasn’t a huge fan of the whole album–the first song, “Hey Look Me Over,” seemed like a perfect, upbeat anthem for these tough times.

Updated 11/12: I'm moving this up because it's getting some comments as of late. Sorry for not posting, but school and life is very busy. Teaching takes priority from blogging. I'm sure you understand.

Mr. McNamar at The Daily Grind has offered up an interesting post; why not eliminate high school sports? His reasons:
1) Budget cuts.
2) The climate is anti-coach.
3) No accountability by administration.
4) Entitlement.
5) Parents

This is a hard announcement to make, but truth be told I gotta feed my family. And while trotlining is one way to do this, the cold hard reality remains that during these dire economic times I need cash money–I gotta get paid. So in cooperation with corproate greed, the bava is running a new Ad campaign designed by the ever creative genius of the Bionicteacher.

In the recent past, I wrote about not really getting Twitter. Since then, I have to say that it has grown on me. I am not and never will be an addict. But it does add a nice social dimension to my day, particularly given that I work alone from my home office a lot of the time. It lets me feel a little more connected with friends and colleagues, and does so without taking up unacceptable amounts of time. So, for my former fellow Twitter skeptics, I have a few suggestions for how to get the most out of it:

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