Summer Camp

The coppers are after us!

I am in Victoria for the week to attend this year’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria.  As I sit here in my dorm room with its single bed and single window looking out to the ocean (and – in the foreground – a grassy patch that is redolent with rabbits during daylight hours), I realize that I have summer camp “butterflies”.

I am excited about the week ahead and thrilled about the late breaking scholarship award that had allowed me to be here participating in the week-long Online Journal Publication workshop using the Public Knowledge Project’s Online Journal System – one of but many amazing workshops taking place at this week’s institute.  We are beginning and ending each day with Institute lectures, which I will aim to report back on.   But there will also be the lure of fresh air and evenings far away from the computers after our full days of learning!

More soon.

Aurelea.

REMIX Returns

After the our exam period hiatus, the Capilano Remix Project is back up and running.  Brian Ganter’s Summer I English 100 class has posted their first set of playful and serious responses to the North Shore News.

Amy Marchi and WeiWei Gao caught my attention this week.

Looking forward to next week’s submissions!

What Do Other Departments Do?

This afternoon, we are participating in panel at Capilano where we (Margaret Dulat, Brian Ganter and Aurelea Mahood) have an opportunity to describe our program to our colleagues.  A little bit of an “in-house show and tell” alongside colleagues from Continuing Education and elsewhere.

This comes on the heels of this morning’s well attended Bill Gibson lecture featuring Brian Lamb, UBC’s Emerging Technologies Director.  Brian’s Abject Learning blog is a nice complement to this morning’s talk and many of the ideas that we explore in CultureNet.

Fall!?!?!

As the Spring term wraps up, we are beginning to plan the 2009/2010 academic year.

I am already excited about next year’s CultureNet core courses; in particular, I am looking for to the core courses in the Year 2 Spring Term (even if that is nearly a year away).

The program is designed to place different disciplines in conversation with each other with an especial emphasis on the ways in which they respond to our program focus on culture and technology.  Next spring the Year 2 students will be taking Cognitive Psychology, Twentieth-Century Art History, and Philosophy.  I may have to audit all three courses, but I am very partial the Philosophy course – Minds, Brains, Machines – to be taught by Sue Gardner.

For more information on CultureNet and Capilano University, please feel free contact me (Aurelea Mahood, CNET Convenor | culturenet@capilanou.ca) or anyone in Advising.

Nick’s Research Project

This is the medium I chose to do my research project. I had a lot of problems with media and I am not sure if that’s to do with some kind of media difficulty with wordpress. I have a few interactive polls at the conclusion I invite everyone to take part in. This subject is a bit on the dark side and I appologize to anyone who may be offended by anything said here. The interviews are pretty neat too but there is some strong wording now and then. http://hivtransmissioninvancouver.wordpress.com