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This article can also be found in a better laid-out version in the Brock University teaching wiki. As a facilitator of Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) [ISW organization web site] I’m concerned about using cameras for recording and reviewing mini lessons and the challenge this has become. The ISW program/model is a 25 year old, peer-based,… Continue Reading Using Cameras for Recording and Reviewing Mini Lessons

Ray Henderson, new president of Blackboard (Bb) learn, sent out an E-Mail/blog post to the WebCT/Bb community today that amounts to a bit of a mea culpa. As Brock University transitions from their WebCT CE 6 (Blackboard Learning System CE) Learning Management System (LMS) to Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS, it’s nice to see someone… Continue Reading MeaWebCT

iPhone 3.0 brings CalDAV to the iPhone/iPod touch family. This could be useful for iPhone OS 3.0 who have Google Calendar account. That is if you are using a corporate Exchange account, .Mac/Mobile Me or are not comfortable sharing your contacts with Google (just your times and locations). These options preclude using Google’s excellent Google… Continue Reading Add Google Calendar To Your iPhone 3.0

One of my friends is involved in LyricFind.com and he alerted me to the new iPhone App for legally looking-up song lyrics in Canada. It’s serves me well and I recommend it to anyone with an iPhone/iPod touch….. but I apparently don’t have to – it’s in the top ten free iPhone/iPod Apps in Canada!… Continue Reading Lyric Find iPhone App

Finally! Finally someone creates a Firefox plug-in that that takes advantage of the native PDFKit in OSX to display PDF files in Firefox. Everyone tolerates Adobe Reader on IE and Safari, but it doesn’t even work with Firefox on the Mac – leaving Mac Firefox users to chase down PDF files on their desktop every… Continue Reading Firefox firefox-mac-pdf where have you been all my life?