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

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I spent the last couple of weekends shooting some film of different areas in Kitsilano but I will usually bring my digital along as a backup. There have been a couple of time where I had run out of film and it was quite handy! In another case I finished up my film roll and it only rewound itself halfway as it lost power from my batteries. Ack! It was a trip to the L&S store to get them to get my film out in their black box. It was a scary moment as I was shooting for an assignment.  

I truly love shooting with film and I’ll never completely give it up. I think that it’s going the way of the vinyl record. Even though it seems that everyone is going digital there is a lot of popularity with the older style cameras and some cool techniques that you can do with film that you may not beable to replicate with digital: Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

I attended Vancouver Barcamp 2006 last weekend and it was a hit! One of the highlights was Photocamp hosted by the likes of Warwick Patterson, Kris Krug and Matt Trentlacoste (PHD student at UBC). It was a one hour session and had a lot of cool goodies for us to gander at. Matt was up first and showed us some online demos of prototypes of what he is working on at UBC. This included Fourier slice photography, Graph processing and the 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 »

Vancouver Photobloggers is a cool newish blog with a flickr group post feed for those that obsess with the camera. There are currently 15 members with 62 photo posts and growing. “A collective of Vancouver photographers seeking out others to collaborate with on upcoming shows, share techniques and just see what happens…” (quoted from Vancouver Photobloggers ‘about’ page). The latest offerings of photos are outdoor photographs with warm earthy tones.

This appeals to me as I’m in a mode to stop taking courses and experiment not only on my own but to learn 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 »

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 »