On to a New University and a New Certificate

Well, I was last year working on an elearning certificate from the Univeristy of Calgary. I was able to complete the core courses, however, they dropped the certificate from their roster and I have been unable to pick up the rest of the courses that I need. I have just proudly enrolled into the University […]

ZENN Cars – Zero Emissions No Noise (Canadian)

I found this extremely interesting and typically Canadian. Someone shared with me a video from the Rick Mercer Report about the ZENN Car. This zero emission, zero Noise car is manufactured in Canada, sold all around the world, and if you can believe it….illegal to drive on Canadian roads. The cars meet all transportation standards, […]

Looking for assistance finding a knowledge database?

I’ve been given a question about someone’s knowledgebase. On their website they have a link to a knowledgebase (or is it knowledge database?). They are a little unhappy with the format of the page that appears on their website and are looking for something new. This is something completely new for me. I’m looking for […]

OEDb Releases Online College Rankings for 2008

Every so often now I get a request to blog about various web tools and sites. (I must be moving up in the blogging world). Today I had a request to take a look at the Online Education Database’s 2008 College Rankings. Not being familiar with U.S.A. colleges/universities I can speak much to the precise […]

Too many job roles is hindering the LMS launch

Well if you can believe this, my LMS (yes I’m calling it mine now) is still not quite up and running. We have a few issues with the deployment and I think I have already mentioned that one of them is the fact that the majority of our staff do not yet have a way […]

Have You Discovered – TED

I love looking through and exploring the various presentations that are available through the TED website. If you haven’t yet taken a look please do. The filmed talks are fascinating and explore a wide variety of topics. Basically they flow around one of three ideas Technology,Entertainment or Design (TED). “The annual conference now brings together […]

WebStats 2007 – MEME

Tony Karrer started a meme on 2007 webstats on blogs. I started blogging mid April 2007 and began using Google Analytics in October. I certainly don’t have the same number of visitors as anyone else I read, but I like to look every so often to see how my blog is received. Here are my […]

eLearning Programs (referenced)

In looking towards improving and continuing my own education, I came across a great discussion from many readers on Tony Karrer’s blog and wanted to draw some more reference to the post. The post “Online Programs that Offer Training in eLearning? : eLearning Technology” had many comments with suggestions of schools in which to take […]

Women to Watch for and Read

I use a nice little feature of Google called Google Alerts. If you haven’t discovered it yet, you can put various key words/phrases and if they come up during the day/week in blogs, videos, news sites, websites, etc., then an email is sent to your inbox as a notification. I have my name and blog […]

Ready to Start a New Year of Blogging

Well I just got back from a wonderful and sunny trip to Huatulco, Mexico. I went down for a wedding, but more importantly a much needed vacation. I highly recommend if you can visit the area to do so. It was beautiful, even if it hadn’t rain since October. The people of the resort and […]