Category Archives: Teaching

Want to learn WordPress? Learn with me at BCIT!

Well timed that it is with the soon-to-be-released Using WordPress, I’m teaching a pair of classes on consecutive Monday evenings through BCIT. The first is Monday Sept 13th—BCIT : : MDIA 0101 – WordPress.com for beginners 1—and is suitable for … Continue reading

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Please nominate me to speak at TEDxUBC

I know many of you have heard of the TED conference as well as the offshoot TEDx conferences. This October TEDxUBC is happening and the theme is right up my alley: “The iGeneration will expect instant responses from parents, teachers … Continue reading

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Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?

I’m not sure this is a great idea, but it is certainly a nice option: Once you’ve got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

During today’s class, several people asked if the slides would be made available online… So here they are: You can download a PDF version or view the slides on iWork.com Beta. One fantastic surprise from today’s class was that WordPress.com … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress Course Outline

In case you’d like to know what I cover when I teach my Building Websites with WordPress class, I’ve uploaded the course outline to iWork.com and you can download a PDF version of it for yourself. Directly related to this … Continue reading

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Twitter Search is Failing Us: Is There a Solution?

One of the crucial parts of using Twitter and social media for business intelligence is is search. The problem is that when using Twitter search for information is that Twitter holds all the cards, and I think Twitter is dealing … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?

Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it … Continue reading

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Upcoming talks, classes, and lectures in May

Turns out May is a really busy month for me for speaking and such. Let’s start off with Northern Voice this weekend… I’m talking Blogging ABC’s in the Social Media 101 track Friday morning, followed by Beyond the Hype: Teaching … Continue reading

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Catch my crash-course in podcasting at F5 Expo

I got an email from Lindsay yesterday to ask if I wanted to get 15-20 workshop on podcasting at the F5 Expo next month. Hmm, let me think about that for a moment… Hellz yeah! So, it’s all set now, … Continue reading

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Want to help me warp, er, teach young minds tonight at BCIT?

I’m in a bit of a bind with tonight’s (final) class that I teach at BCIT—I need a guest speaker! Robert Scales was going to be the capper for this term (and I couldn’t have thought of a better one, … Continue reading

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The Rights and Wrongs of Learning and How We Need to Let Ourselves Learn

It’s pretty well known that I’m a huge fan of mind mapping and am a very visual learner. It’s also well know that school wasn’t easy for me growing up. Yes, I did well, but there were times I thought … Continue reading

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