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Last night, after dinner, I opened up my fortune cookie and it said: “You function best when you can apply your sense of organization and structure” How apropos 😉

*could I have found a cheezier title… maybe… if I thought hard enough about it. It has been a pretty good summer so far. I cannot believe it is the first of August already though. Decision time is upon me – when to go home, formally end ‘summer vacation’ and get back to ‘work’… IContinue reading “Summer Reflections…er… Ramblings”

From WOXY.com – if their trials and tribulations have not been enough with funding and support – the next axe may be the final one, all across the board of internet radio stations. The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling andContinue reading “Internet Radio : Day of Silence”

Looking for a new blogging home – hope this will be the right fit!

So, I am reading this book, which is interesting so far. But in making the claim that machines will surpass humans in terms of ‘intelligence’, I ask the following question: Although computers may be able to store and compute more information than human capacity, is it really memory and knowledge? In the last book IContinue reading “A Difference in Meaning”

A great looking conference coming up next week, May 14-16 at Concordia University. I am registered and waiting! The Spirit of Inquiry: Developing Critical Thinking, Creativity and Community is part of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference Series. For anyone who plans on making teaching a part of their academic career, and hope to implementContinue reading “The Spirit of Inquiry”

I submitted my chapter/essay over the weekend (and had the obligatory editing exchange) and at this time, I believe it is safely tucked away, earning another check mark on my list of things to do. The last thing on my list is the groundwork for our AoIR paper on community building through course websites (withContinue reading “Check Marks & Being”

As I finish up this chapter (today) I am faced with the fact that this is my last ‘academic’ project until I get news about my PhD. Perhaps that is a little dramatic since I do have a paper for AoIR to research and co-write and that research methods project my colleague and I keepContinue reading “Loose Ends & Moving On”

After spending a bit more time on Facebook, I was introduced to this site . A fun, weird and sometimes creepy site where you upload a picture and then they do some face recognition scan and then match you to some celebrities. The images on top was my first try – dismayed at having moreContinue reading “Severe Procrastination”

As I am trying to write this chapter on the history of online rp games, I realize that the main obstacle that is preventing my from being wholly productive is the question of origin. Each time I write something and move on, I realize that there is some more ‘back story’ that contextualizes the firstContinue reading “The Trouble with Origin Stories”