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Connecting Rural Schools

I served as a CODEC evaluator and team member on an incredible project that connected 5 schools in a sparsely-populated portion of Northern Alberta. The following is taken from RACOL: Rural Advanced...

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Addressing Multiple Classrooms (part 2)

I returned to the Banff Centre on November 27th 2002 for the final event of phase one. As was the case at the start, this event connected Banff with a class in Ottawa for a studio tour with...

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Addressing Multiple Classrooms (part 3)

On April 9th 2002 audiences in Ottawa and Kanata Ontario were connected with St. John’s Nfld. (Atlantic time plus one half-hour) in a large-scale interactive performance event. Carleton University’s...

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Cottage Life Magazine Article

Here’s a bit of a mention in the Summer issue of Cottage Life magazine. How to work from the cottage—successfully

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Winnipeg Free Press Article

Here is an article from the Winnipeg Free Press featured on June 17th 2010. A cubicle as big as the world – Web conferencing quickly catching on (except in Winnipeg)

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Ottawa Business Journal article

A recent article celebrating the great Canadian summer and how to employ telecollaborative techniques to its full enjoyment! Cottage industry: Making the most of your working vacation

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Diploma in interactive media and technology

Michael has designed and directed an intensive study of interactive and new media history, theory and practices called the Diploma in New Media/Sonic Design for the School for Studies in Art and...

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Has e-democracy’s time arrived? You bet it has!

From Canada 150 “Towards a Virtual Parliament: has e-democracy’s time arrived?” We must capture the imagination with a new 21-century national institution: A Virtual Parliament. An initiative such as...

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VR and perception

“I think virtual reality does have a remarkable quality in that it gives people an experience that is rather angel-like, floating as the consciousness point in this variable world. I think that – if...

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Protected: Prototypes: episode one

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Indigenous education in Canada (part 1)

A research community centered on virtual classrooms began to coalesce in 2001 thanks to funding provided by the previous Liberal government. The funding, provided by Industry Canada and Canadian...

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Indigenous education in Canada (part 2)

“Make significant new investments in First Nations education to ensure that First Nations children on reserve receive a quality education while respecting the principle of First Nations control of...

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Indigenous education in Canada (part 3)

In 2001, the Liberal government began supporting research conducted on Industry Canada’s CANARIE ultra-high-speed network to develop methods to improve the quality of education in remote and indigenous...

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Indigenous education in Canada (part 4)

In 2002, Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada began supporting advanced research in interactive media on the CANARIE network. Performance Space Meets Cyberspace (PSMC) was a two-year investigation...

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Indigenous education in Canada (part 5)

So what to do? Establish a strategy within the government and, in particular, Carolyn Bennett’s office, which acknowledges and exploits this invaluable asset. Then, find a community wherein a pilot...

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Globe article on indigenous education

Census 2016: where is the discussion on indigenous education? by John Richards, a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy and a fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.

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