Career Space E-zine

It’s that time of year again….

Coming up soon at the Northern Voice 2007 conference Darren Barefoot will be leading a session on Why Do We Blog? In order to gather empirical evidence for his theories he has posted an online survey for his readers to contribute stats and personal commentaries as to why they have been bitten by the blog bug. The link for the survey is here.

A couple of years ago my classmate Terry showed me the blog he was working on. I had never heard of them before but I quickly picked up on the concept. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I was perusing the discussion http://www.terminus1525.ca/node/40117 on the collaborative art network website terminus1525.ca which circled around mail art. This form of art collaboration has been going on since the 1950s whereby artists use the mail as a medium sending art pieces via the postal system and the recipient adding to the art and forwarding back and forth as a means to create a unique art piece. Read the rest of this entry »

The Northern Voice 2007 blogging conference is coming up and it’s at UBC. ‘Fess up! Who’s going?

This past week I attended an elearning session at UBC about an innovation in social bookmarking to promote sustainability. Last spring UBC approached a local problem and an opportunity for core branding in sustainability. With the World Forum being held in Vancouver and over 350 university courses laying a claim to covering sustainability in their curriculum and no organizer to explore the richness thereof on campus they looked to technology to enable and engage stakeholders in sustainability solutions. They created a system called GUSSE: Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange - http://gusse.org/ which is a social bookmarking system Read the rest of this entry »

Currently I am part of a task group that is working on a discussion paper about the future of the elibrary at UBC. Having recently returned from a trip to Paris I have just dived back into the fray and set to work. It’s very interesting (and a little odd)to write a paper as a group. As a student I wrote on my papers independently and as a present writer I will at times work with an editor to develop a piece. I’ve already started working through what the other members of the group have been working on and I’m pulling together material for the section I am assigned to. One thing that hasn’t been tackled Read the rest of this entry »

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 »