Universal Design for Learning- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Reducing Barriers to Learning with Universal Design for Learning - University of Nebraska–Lincoln November 13, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Inclusive education: Get started by making small changes to your education practice | Teaching & Learning - UCL - University College London November 4, 2024
- Assistive Technology (AT): Many Possibilities to Consider - Good Morning Wilton November 3, 2024
- 10 Tips toward Accessibility - American Libraries November 1, 2024
- Dreamery Speaker Series: Sessions focus on inclusive learning and accessibility - Penn State University October 31, 2024
- Professional learning spotlight: OCDE to offer training on Universal Design for Learning - OCDE Newsroom September 26, 2024
- Education and AI
- Education and the Consequences of Artificial Intelligence - Eagle News November 25, 2024
- Everyday AI: Artificial intelligence in education - CSIRO November 24, 2024
- Wharton School Launches New Coursera Course On AI In Education - BusinessBecause November 22, 2024
- How to Become an AI Engineer: Skills, & Salary [2025] - Simplilearn November 22, 2024
- How do civil rights laws apply to AI in schools? - K-12 Dive November 21, 2024
- Artificial intelligence in UK financial services - 2024 - Bank of England November 21, 2024
- University Launches Master’s Degree for AI in Education - Education Week November 19, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market Report - GlobeNewswire November 18, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- Stephen A. Smith Questions LeBron's Social Media Exit And Its Connection To Son Bronny's NBA Struggles - Black Enterprise November 25, 2024
- Canadian MPs among social media users pivoting from X to Bluesky in the wake of U.S. vote - CBC News November 25, 2024
- S.F. social media provocateur arrested on suspicion of pimping - San Francisco Chronicle November 25, 2024
- At Berkman Klein event, experts say ‘facts can’t fix’ social media's most urgent problems - Harvard Law School November 25, 2024
- Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for November 25, 2024 including Brie Larson debuts her pixie cut for Elektra - LaineyGossip November 25, 2024
- Lion Cub Exploited on Social Media Finally Rehomed to Wildlife Refuge - Yahoo News UK November 25, 2024
- Social media erupts after Jack Smith files to dismiss Jan. 6 charges against Trump - Washington Examiner November 25, 2024
- Here’s Where Each of the Big Social Platform Stands on External Links - Social Media Today November 25, 2024
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - 'To honour and learn' from Indigenous communities: KPU launches archeological assessments of university land - Education News Canada November 21, 2024
- Kwantlen University student newspaper threatened with shutdown - MSN November 20, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- KPU graduate showcases collection at Vancouver Fashion Week - Richmond News November 17, 2024
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers explore memory failure across the lifespan - Education News Canada November 13, 2024
- B.C. student unions struggle with transparency, prompting calls for legal reform - The Langara Voice November 6, 2024
- B.C. Election: What the results across Metro Vancouver tell us about the 2024 vote - Vancouver Sun October 21, 2024
- BC cannabis nursery and university collaborate on cannabis barcoding project - StratCann October 18, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Copyright protections trump new TV-streaming technology
This is good news, from my publisher’s point of view. From The Globe and Mail: Canadian content producers are breathing a sigh of relief after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that online streaming service Aereo Inc. violates U.S. copyright laws, … Continue reading
Displaying complex research findings graphically (and simply) …
… is a big theme in all of my communications and marketing classes. I am quite enjoying the blog published by Darkhouse Analytics, which explores this theme obsessively. Click on the image below to see how to make the perfect … Continue reading
Writing Matters
I had the honour of teaching students (as well as mentoring new instructors) in Stanford University’s Writing and Rhetoric program back in the day. Students from every corner of the university – from biology and engineering to sociology and English … Continue reading
Sharing Lingo
Via Bryan Garner’s amazing Law Prose Blog: “There once was a time when everyday folk spoke one language, and learned men wrote another. It was called the Dark Ages.” Samuel T. Williamson, “How to Write Like a Social Scientist,” in … Continue reading
Codeacademy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5-G2hrb8c#t=64 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Marketing student explains why students should learn code in his post “The ‘C’ Word, and Why You Need to Add It to Your Vocabulary.” “Social collaboration through learning is an incredible motivator” to understand and write … Continue reading
“Happy”
Social Media at its most buoyant.
Social Media Landscape 2014
Our friends at CMO.com have released their Social Media Landscape 2014 table, helpfully colour-coded.
A Defense of Kristin Stewart …
… and of the poem she recently published, surrounded by snark, in Marie Claire magazine. The poem is called “My Heart is a Wiffle Ball / Freedom Pole.” Writes poet and UCLA professor Brian Kim Stefans: This [post] is partly to address … Continue reading
Bryan Garner’s LawProse.org
Bryan Garner is a lawyer whose range of work on the topics of writing and rhetoric is humbling – to me as it should be to you, too. His blog is a gas. Here he is, just the other day, … Continue reading
Teaching on the Cheap
This figure is staggering: Adjunct professors and other “contingent employees” make up 70% of the faculty in American universities. These people have no hope for tenure at their schools. Writes James Hoff in The Guardian, “All but the most elite … Continue reading