education building

over on the the ed tech post things are getting all gussied up, no doubt for the pending Northern Voice jam next month. This is EXACTLY the reason I’m putting some effort in here at the moment. gotta look my best!

But really, who the heck would even know i AM blogging half the time, what with my completely undisciplined habits and tendency to invest effort into posting on side projects or the other various communities in which i participate? I’m blogging here right now in fact while the blog i actually POINT everybody too goes neglected. jeez, and theres also time suckers like this.
Somehow, i do like having all these different places to riff off the odd thought once in awhile, but if i am not going to commit to the “whole blogosphere” thing, perhaps i should reconsider my modus operandi altogether. I’m just saying I need to get my act together, and putting these new “SFU templates” to the test seems like a worthwhile excuse for the effort.
More on NV later, for now I just want to link to another of my co-bloggers in the LIDC who did NOT choose to jump in with me to test this official look, (which I have no real permission to be doing btw). Amyyy is using the same wordpress services as I am, yet she has chosen a completely different look of her own. you wouldn’t even know she works for SFU if you were not reading this. I think its quite smart actually for many obvious reasons, although I have a feeling we’ll be seeing alot more of her in the whole blogosphere this year.

The risks of me blogging like this are great, I hope I’m responsible enough to handle them.

As a knee jerk reaction to proclaiming my return to this blog, (i promise ill write more than one post every four months … honest!!!) I wanted to get in a few quick posts right away. (not too mention the fact that I’m trying to find SOMEthing wrong with these templates but they seem almost flawless at every level).

Without many original ideas of my own at the moment, I look to see what my associate brian is up to, and wouldnt you know it he serves up the gold in a timely fashion once again. Its true, I have been playing in SL myself for the past couple weeks, (fashionably late as usual) but I did not feel I had enough experience to blog about it yet. I dont own anything there, nor do I buy or sell stuff. In fact I’ve only recently mastered the ins and outs of ‘waving’ and ‘jumping up and down’, but it doesnt really matter. There has been enough discussion amongst the ‘ol peer group lately to realize the very idea of a virtual ’second’ life, makes a mockery of the many meaningful encounters we experience right here in the ‘real life’. (Here come the gold) Brian points the way to Darrens magnifcent jest of the whole hype riddled phenomena, and I have to stop writing now for fear of detracting from that link. Here it is again. A good parody website is indeed worth 1001 words.
That said, I really wish my job entailed an hour and a half commute to secondlife over the one i currently endure. peace.

p.s.  any post about getting a life of any kind would not be complete with out a link to my mans customizable life patch.  oh sure, you may know him for his vintage wordpress themes, but did you know he does life too?

OK, so its true this blog never even really got off the ground to begin with, but I sure am glad its here now to adopt and show off the brand spanking new S.F.U. look and feel for Wordpress. This template was built by yet another in a string of brilliant Co-op students we seem to recruit here at S.F.U. Thanks David! (do you got a myspace or something i can link too?) I’d say each one is better than the last although that would just be rude.

There is no official blogging infrastructure here at our university, although when there is (there will be), I imagine (hope) it will look something like this. The idea here is to demonstrate that a blog can in fact be used as part of a universities ‘official’ public communications in a way that both integrates with the presentation strategy, but also adds fresh and diverse content to the flood of google results that may result with any random query. If I would just use the thing once in awhile it might help.

We are getting ready to launch a new blog for Student Services using this very template, which I hope will be a welcomed addition to the communications tools they are currently using. I hope the students will like it too. This would \lmost be a first for S.F.U. except for the fact that Career Services (a division of Student Services) has been blogging their little hearts out for the last two semesters. yay Career Services!

It seems this blogging thing may be actually be beginning to take a foothold here in on our beloved mountain.