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  • LOEX of the West 2010 Call for Proposals

    Hey all, come visit us in Calgary!  LOEX of the West is being held down the road at Mount Royal University next year, June 10-12, 2010.  The Call for Proposals has just been announced.  Deadline for submitting proposals is December 14, 2009.

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  • Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

    An emerging list of the top 100 tools for learning in 2009, as picked by 202 learning professionals (and possibly you!).  Pleased to note that I was aware of 87 of them, with most of the new-to-me ones being related to animation and course authoring systems.  I found it particularly interesting to note the changes…

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  • When is a book alive, and what if you have the dead version?

    My head’s spinning a little right now.  Just had a visit from someone in our DocDel dept. who was trying to track down a chapter from the 2nd revised edition of Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, which our catalogue says we have through Ebrary.  Except that the cited chapter had a publication date of 2006, while…

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  • Federal Register 2.0

    Cool, the Federal Register is now available in XML! “With an XML edition, independent organizations can reorganize the Register’s contents in ways that are more meaningful to you and address your personal interests; track issues that are likely to affect your community or your profession; and even engage in real-time public discussions about its contents…

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  • What IS Google Wave?

    Last week I got my invite to Google Wave, and Chad Haefele and I played with it for a little bit (he's the only other person I know with an account so far, even though I've sent out a few invites of my own).  It's kinda slick, but we were both just poking sticks at…

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