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
- Promoting equity and addressing concerns in teaching and learning with artificial intelligence - Frontiers October 10, 2024
- How do we make more accessible learning content for children with disabilities? - UNICEF September 30, 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
- 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
- Artificial intelligence at Tulane will transform research, education - Tulane Hullabaloo November 21, 2024
- University Launches Master’s Degree for AI in Education - Education Week November 19, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in Education Market Report 2024-2029: Investments in AI-Driven Learning Platforms Fuel Growth with North America Leading - Yahoo Finance November 18, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- 62% of travellers who planned trips on social media made purchase decisions based on content they viewed: Phocuswright - Travel Daily November 26, 2024
- Churchland High School employee placed on leave following social media allegations - 13newsnow.com WVEC November 26, 2024
- Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives' Maheep Kapoor on facing social media judgement: People are very quick to judge but… - Hindustan Times November 26, 2024
- 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
- "Ineffective": Google, Meta Asks Australia To Delay Social Media Ban For Children - NDTV November 26, 2024
- Government moves to address social media ban fears - ACS 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
Students Look at Digital Media
Students in my “Marketing in a Digital World” class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been keeping one another up to date on developments in digital and social media with their blogs and their classroom presentations. This class would be impossible … Continue reading
“Scholarly Writing and How to Get It Done”
That’s the subtitle of my favourite blog on academic writing, “Stupid Motivational Tricks,” authored (primarily) by Jonathan Mayhew, a Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas, who is a friend of mine and has been since our days in … Continue reading
CMO.com: A very useful resource
Last week I gave a presentation to the Vancouver chapter of Construction Specifications Canada. It was called “Twitter? LinkedIn? How to Use Social Media Professionally.” The room was filled with architects, engineers, landscapers, contractors, and one or two marketers: an … Continue reading
Stopping the Page from Being Blank
In the mid-1990s, shortly after I moved to Vancouver, I got a job doing Investor Relations for a public company drafting news releases, presentations, brochures, and the like. I would put drafts of these items together and present them to … Continue reading
“Acquaintances would be lost. The question is whether that would matter.”
No form of online experience more quickly insinuated itself into my life than Facebook, which I joined at the insistence of a rambunctious, third-year technical writing class back in the summer of 2007. I loved how Facebook “extended” me not … Continue reading
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Stanford: Resources for Writers
Stanford University’s Program for Writing and Rhetoric is renowned both for its truly interdisciplinary approach to writing as well as for its adherence to, and study of, formal rhetoric in numerous sectors: forensics, advocacy, public affairs, the arts, technology, and … Continue reading
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Digital Media Governance
As an educator at a Vancouver-area university, I helped fashion the digital-media and online-privacy procedures for its School of Business. My goal was to show how teachers and students could avail themselves of the many dozens of digital-media platforms – … Continue reading
Feedback
When interviewing candidates for teaching positions at my university, I often ask them how they provide and receive feedback in the workplace, to get a quick, vivid picture of their character and initiative. When you give clear and useful feedback … Continue reading
Good Information
During a classroom discussion about program evaluation and research last night, I recommended to my entrepreneurial leadership students that they bookmark The Free Management Library. It’s a wonderful community-composed resource. “The Library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, … Continue reading
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Keep Your Promises, Keep Your Confidences, and Keep Your Appointments
The prefix para means “beside” or “beyond.” Paralinguistic or paraverbal communication usually refers to *how* one’s words are conveyed: through tone, body language, speaking speed, or even through one’s wardrobe. In both workplace and social environments, though, beside and beyond … Continue reading