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, I’m giving a few (2-3) short podcasting workshops on the show floor during the F5 Expo—Podcasting 101 | F5 Expo—which kinda reminds me, why don’t I podcast as much as I want to…
Hmm, gotta change that.
Anyway, I love talking about podcasts and video blogging (I like talking about video blogging, doing it, [...]
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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, since he went to BCIT), but he is still recovering from a terrible car accident week before last.
Here are the pertinent details…
The class is called “Trendsetters” and is a seminar-style class (discussion, not lecture) where I bring in cool people from the community who are doing cutting edge and interesting [...]
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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 Chemistry and pre-calculus were going to be the death of me. Even through undergrad and grad school many things (again Chemistry) didn’t come easily to me. Oh how I wish I knew then what I know now about myself and my brain.
I wonder if I had been helped to hone [...]
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I know it’s easy to point fingers at teachers and schools when kids don’t measure up, but when students are flunking basic English and writing exams and peppering their answers with emoticons they aren’t to blame—their teachers who let them get away with it are. I know the kids who are the ones who are actually making the errors, but why do they think it’s okay in the first place?
I also don’t buy relaxing grammar rules in the face of new technology either:
Thus, it looks like students are retaining the [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 19, 2009 · 4 comments
in About the book, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Mind Mapping, Teaching, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Using WordPress
Remember those days in high school when you were learning how to write term papers? My very well-meaning teachers tried to get us to use notecards and create outlines, anything to help us write better organized papers with the correct citation in the bibliography.
And I hated and chafed at every, single moment of it. While having notecards is actually a good organizational tool, my nascent writer’s brain couldn’t latch on to them as anything more than a royal pain. Even then, and probably more so than now, my chaotic, in-the-data-cloud [...]
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by Tris Hussey on November 29, 2009 · 6 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Featured, Internet Life, Social Media, Teaching, Web 2.0, WordPress
Yes, you read that correctly, WordPress isn’t the best CMS out there. WordPress is, however, the CMS I like best. My BCIT class on Thursday afternoons is one of those great groups of students that everyone should have the opportunity to teach. They challenge me constantly. No, not in a disrespectful way, in an intelligent way. They challenge me to challenge myself and learn more so I can teach them more (hence all my experimentation with Subversion).
This week, for example, I was working through the WordPress theme structure with a [...]
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By popular demand, I am teaching another round of WordPress courses January 16th and April 10th, 2010. These courses are being offered through BCIT and will be offered as separate morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will use WordPress.com to build a website/blog. The afternoon session will use WordPress you install yourself to build the same kind of site, but with more customized features.
You can sign up for the WordPress morning course and WordPress afternoon course through the BCIT website.
I know that the courses will be taught in the [...]
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If you’ve been meaning to learn how to use WordPress, but you just haven’t gotten a round to it, there is no time like the present! This Saturday I’m teaching Building Websites with WordPress (for normal people) downtown at UBC Robson Square—and it’s now a full day class (not the paltry half day version). Here is the basic description for you:
Course Description: Learn how to make a professional looking website using the WordPress blogging platforms. Beginning with WordPress.com with little to no coding required, students learn the basics of how [...]
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This Saturday I’m teaching my full-day audio/video podcasting course at UBC Robson Square (9-4)—UBC Continuing Studies—and there is still time to sign up and room available for in the class.
The first class was a huge test for me. I could have (should have) been a lot better prepared for it. Now, however, I have had the benefit of having taught my full-day and half-day WordPress courses (don’t forget my full-day WP class at UBC is Halloween!) several times and have a much better sense of just how I need to [...]
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This past June I taught a couple Continuing Education courses at UBC Robson Square and they were so well received that before the end of June they were scheduled again for this fall. Now that you’re settling into fall, how about learning how to podcast (audio or video) or build a website with WordPress (for the non-geeky set)?
I promise that you’ll come away from my classes learning at least a couple new tricks and maybe even a radio show or website. So, here are the details:
Intro to Audio and Video [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
