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For the past few years UBC grad student Kaela Jubas and her Vancouver colleague Dr.Shauna Butterwick have been involved in a research project to find out about the alternative pathways’s that women use in the IT sector as part of their career development. This sector is part of the Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL) research network which is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Last year I recieved an invite from the Digital Eve mailing list to be a participant in this study. As someone who is interested in IT and in education I volunteered Read the rest of this entry »

Barcamp Vancouver will take place at the Bryght office in Gastown on April 25/26. While all 90 spots are now full there is a very short waitlist so it’s still possible to sign up. What is barcamp? It’s an adhoc unconference where like-minded tech geeks get together to discuss their fave topics. Check out the wikipedia definition. There are a variety of cool topics on the agenda including social software for the introvert, ruby on rails and Kris Krug’s famous photocamp Read the rest of this entry »

The UBC E-strategy 2006 Town Hall took place on June 22, 2006 in the UBC Life Sciences Centre. This free fabulous event featured poster presentations and lecturers from a cross-section of departments on campus.

The morning keynote address was delivered by two guests: Walter Stewart , Senior IT Strategist with CANARIE, Read the rest of this entry »

Recently on Techvibes a recently graduated student was not only looking for a job as a graphic designer but was looking for advice on an inexpensive way to display her course projects for potential employers. There is a group of new websites and online tools that can help students achieve this.

These days it’s becoming increasingly important for students Read the rest of this entry »

During the past year the University of British Columbia has implemented strategies to create a useful networking community for their alumni. In June 2006 they launched “Trek Connect” a similar site to “LinkedIn“, which is a networking community of business professionals who want to reach out to others in their industries and to potentially find work or what’s going on in their field. Recently an announcement was sent to all the alumni in their database to join up and connect Read the rest of this entry »

On June 1, 2006 Al Gore will be giving a special lecture at the University of British Columbia. According to the latest issue of Wired Magazine Al Gore is famous for almost being the “next president” of the US and for being incorrectly quoted for saying that he created the internet. The speech he is giving at UBC is based on his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” which was previewed at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Patron’s in the Driver’s Seat: Give Advanced Tool-Sets to Library Patrons by John Blyberg, Ann Arbor District Library: a lecture for the HigherEdBlogCon 2006 Conference. I’m intrigued by a number of concepts within this lecture. As a library staff member for the past 10 years at UBC I’ve seen the growth and hiccups resulted from moving from one library online system to another. Read the rest of this entry »

The HigherEdBlogCon 2006 is an online conference that is being held April 3-28, 2006 - “Transforming academic communities with new tools of the social web.” This innovative conference was planning by participants from 30 north american institutions using wiki social software. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Woodward Library commons area a group of medical students are gathered around a new laptop looking pensively at the documents displayed on the screen while discussing and collaborating information gathered for their third case week in “Blood and Lymphatics”. Elsewhere you might find another group of students putting together their PowerPoint presentation for their Human Kinetics health promotion project due later that day. Read the rest of this entry »