4 posts tagged “canada”
Today my online writing students at Mohawk College joined the blogosphere. After a session where I showed them around Web 2.0, I led them here to blog. They'll also be jacking into Flickr, using del.icio,us and trying out other online tools. You can find all three dozen or so of them in my neighbourhood. Please check out their posts and comment. They're a great bunch of bright, eager folks who are a joy to learn with.
Oddly enough, yesterday I did a guest talk at nearby Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. There the students had just taken up blogging as well (using the inferior Blogger :-)). They were supposed to blog about my talk (also about Web 2.0) I'll link to those blogs when they roll in. Funny how things overlap like that sometimes.
Some shots of my friends from Catalonia
Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart?
Question submitted by Gladys.
It's pop up here in Canada. Soda is SO American to my ears. Funny story: My parents grew up in a small Newfoundland outport (Stones Cove). Pop. (not soda) 256. One day cargo from a shipwreck washed ashore. It was cases of pop. All sorts of flavours. Each family in the outport adopted a flavour and promptly hid the stashes in places only other family members knew about. Naught as queer as folk, as they say in British movies.
I'm heading into Toronto today to be interviewed by a guy named Graeme Stewart. He's a graduate candidate at the London School of Economics in the Media and Communications Department.
He's focussing his research on emerging technology and democracy
and is interested in "how civil society is using podcasting to build an online communicative space that furthers their ability to
positively intervene in the political process and strengthen democracy."
He wants to talk to me because I'm the executive producer of the rabble podcast network. As he said in an email to me, "Given its size and strong civil society focus, the Rabble Podcasting Network is an ideal subject for my dissertation research." Cool.
I hope I'll also get a chance to stop by the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre to see if the have the Nike+iPod running shoe sensor.
