Universal Design for Learning- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University (ASU) 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
- 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
- Sabrena Deal shapes inclusive learning and design at Grady - Grady College September 25, 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
- Top Generative AI Tools | Gen AI Tools for 2025 - Simplilearn November 22, 2024
- AI Impact on Education: Its Effect on Teaching and Student Success - Netguru 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
- Social Media Policy
- Alabama attorney general pushes for more social media regulation for kids - WSFA November 26, 2024
- Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children - MSN November 26, 2024
- UFC Fight Night 248 reactions: Winning and losing fighters on social media - MMA Junkie November 26, 2024
- Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children By Reuters - Investing.com November 26, 2024
- Social media reacts to Arkansas' 109-35 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore - Rivals.com - Arkansas November 26, 2024
- Tech Giants Challenge Australia's Child Social Media Bill - Devdiscourse November 26, 2024
- LIVE: Australia's parliament debates social media ban for children under 16 - Lufkin Daily News November 26, 2024
- LIVE: Australia's parliament debates social media ban for children under 16 - Mississippi Valley Publishing November 26, 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
Notes on Mentorship, I
Erin Dick gave a superb talk, and then led an illuminating discussion, on the topic of “mentorship” today, the last day of the IABC’s world conference. Inspired by the speaker and my discussion attendees, I will be posting on this topic … Continue reading
International Association of Business Communicators: World Conference 2013
The IABC’s 2013 world conference has been quite a success so far. The presentations have been amply tweeted at the hashtag #IABCWC13. (My tweets about this event and other things can be found at @thebasil.)
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding
In 1987 I promoted a story about “Secular Organizations for Sobriety” [SOS] that appeared in the Buffalo News. SOS was one of those secular humanist initiatives promulgated by Paul Kurtz’s publishing enterprises out of Buffalo, in this case “Free Inquiry,” … Continue reading
Vancouver Schools and Social Media
The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading
Academic Blogging
My new favourite blog is by a Ukrainian-born scholar of Hispanic Literature named “Clarissa” – she doesn’t reveal her surname or some other would-be identifying information, like her university’s name – whose work I first encountered on Jonathan Mayhew’s Stupid … Continue reading
It’s Usually Not Mother’s Day
Are there any people other than mothers who ever truly know that they have been the most important person in the life of someone else? I like this question, and ask some variant of it in most of my professional … Continue reading
Complex Communications Solutions vs. Perhaps a Simpler One
From Paul Constant in The Stranger today: Chris DeRose published an article at Business Insider addressing the fact that McDonald’s is failing at customer service, with a vice president of the company openly talking about the “rude or unprofessional employees” … Continue reading
No More Memos
Delivered to my house this week was the instructor’s edition of Daniel G. Riordan’s stalwart textbook Technical Report Writing Today, 10th edition. I was thrilled, I have to say, having used the 9th edition of Riordan’s text in my upper-level … Continue reading
Make Room for Working
“Of the three goals to which all aspire – success in love, in society, and in profession – only two are plausible simultaneously: you can’t have a smooth love life, a rich social life, and still get your work done. … Continue reading