iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

I recently accepted the lead of the Sakai Accessibility Working Group.  It’s an honour and a challenge and I’m going to make the most of it. At Brock University we use Isaak as our learning management system, which is based on the Sakai CLE.  In Ontario Canada we’re operating under the increasingly more stringent Accessibility for Ontarians with… Continue Reading Chair of Sakai Accessibility Working Group

At this time of year the interwebs get very productive creating blog postings about productivity, and this blog is all about me adding  information to an existing saturation, so here goes: These two recent articles have some good ideas for a more productive 2013: Robert C. Pozen in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-be-more-productive/ Erin Schulte collected thoughts from… Continue Reading My Productive Practices

Long ago I promised myself I’d blog about <a href=”http://evernote.com”>Evernote</a> when I made more than 1000 notes. I broke that record on Friday November 9, 2012 so here’s a quick summary of what Evernote is and what I use it for. Evernote is intended to help people remember everything. While I haven’t achieved that, I’m… Continue Reading Me and Evernote

As my last post about a Brock University Important Dates iCal Feed indicated, I often find myself needing Brock University information in a structured, digital format. As I’m not one to improve public information and make it private, here’s the how I made this information more fun to play with. As we in the Centre… Continue Reading Structured Schedule and Course Calendar Data for Brock University

I tried to share this on http://icalshare.com, but can’t make an account (the password field is not blank!) so I’ll share it here. I created a Brock University important dates feed from the registrar’s list of important dates http://www.brocku.ca/registrar/guides/returning/importantdates.php . The dates are added to a Google Doc Spreadsheet then run through our Centre for… Continue Reading Brock University Important Dates iCal Feed