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Juan de Fuca Trail Hiking Trip
Juan de Fuca trail map I spent the past weekend hiking the Juan de Fuca trail on the west coast of Vancouver Island. My good friend Matt and I hiked from China beach to Sombrio beach, a total of 28...
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More Photos from the Juan de Fuca trail
More photos from our recent hiking trip on the Juan de Fuca trail on the west coast of Vancouver Island. These photos were taken by Matthew Lettington on his Nikon D800.
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Tofino Road Trip
Took a day trip to Tofino this weekend with my friends Kim and Matt. Tofino is about 200 kilometres from Nanaimo so it was a lot of driving! Beautiful drive though as you cross the island north of...
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Tourist in Your Own City Victoria
Spent last weekend in Victoria as the city was holding its’ annual Tourist in Your own City promotion. The promo is intended to lure the locals out during the low season for tourism on Vancouver...
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Broken Group Islands Kayaking Trip
This past weekend I experienced a three day kayak trip in the Broken Islands with my friend Matthew and his friend Sean. The trip was a number of firsts: my first overnight camping trip in a kayak;...
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More photos from the Broken Islands
More photos from my recent kayaking trip to the Broken Islands Group on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. These photos were taken by my friend Matthew Lettington.
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Kennedy Lake Camping Trip Day 1: Clayoquot Arm Provincial Park
Over the Easter long weekend I did a three day kayaking trip with intent to explore Kennedy Lake. The trip came up quite last minute so we didn’t really have a concrete plan as to where on Kennedy...
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Kennedy Lake Camping Trip Day 2: Kennedy River
Lazy river After returning from the Clayoquot Arm Saturday afternoon we strategized what to do with the remaining days. We explored the idea of continuing to circumvent Kennedy Lake, perhaps...
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Kennedy Lake Camping Trip Day 3: Deer Bay, Tofino Inlet
Since we had set ourselves up so nicely the afternoon before we had almost a full day of paddling ahead of us in the Tofino Inlet. Having gone from a lake, to a river, to the ocean we were thrilled...
View ArticleKayaking Kennedy Lake Easter Weekend Video
Awesome video made by my good friend Matthew Lettington of our Easter long weekend kayaking. I believe this video captures the trip incredibly, excellent work!
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Collaborative Documents in your D2L Course
One of the tools which we do not have available in the current version of Desire2Learn is a wiki or collaborative document editor. Collaborative documents allow multiple users, including both...
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Valdes Island Kayaking Trip
We have been having awesome weather here on the west coast! Its been sunny and warm and this weekend we reached up into the high 20 degrees. As the weather was forecast, Matt and I decided to take a...
View ArticleBill Gates on giving Instructors Real Feedback
In this TED Talk Microsoft founder Bill Gates proposes a method for getting teachers real feedback on their practice. A recent initiative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the Measures...
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Orca Whale Sighting in Dodds Narrows
Yesterday while taking a walk on the Cable Bay Trial just south of Nanaimo I witnessed the most magical whale sighting I have ever had. I approached a section of the trail called Dodds Narrows which is...
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Meares Island Kayaking Trip
For the May long weekend I did a three day kayaking trip with my friends Matt and Shawn to Meares Island near Tofino on Vancouver Island. We set out Friday evening, camping out at Berryman Point...
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May Tofino Trip
Florencia Bay panorama centred around Florencia Island Last weekend I took a trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island to show a visiting friend around Tofino and Ucluelet. We thoroughly explored...
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Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop
On May 27th I attended a workshop organized by BC Campus titled Adopting Open Textbooks held at Camosun College in Victoria. BC Campus has been running a series of these workshops starting off at...
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ETUG Spring Workshop 2013
This years’ spring Educational Technology User Group (ETUG) conference was held at Simon Fraser University with the theme “Tell it on the mountain: Teaching, Engaging, Learning and Leading ”. I came...
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Deploying Kaltura at VIU – ETUG 2013 Presentation
I presented at the ETUG conference this year about our experience deploying Kaltura on campus over the past year. There was lots of interest from the community about Kaltura with the shared service...
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From Scratch Home Made Beer
After a number of experimentations with the Coopers home brew beer making kits we decided to try and make beer from raw ingredients. We ordered two beer kits from Hop Dawgs; an oatmeal stout and a...
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