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I had the honour of co-chairing this year’s conference with Natasha Kenny.

I’m preparing for a “vibecoding in higher education” (AI Slop, with no Warranty) presentation in a month1, and wanted to start pulling together some of my thoughts and experiences with vibecoding over the couple of years.

I attended the National AI Summit in town yesterday.

I’ve been using a digital notebook of some sort since the 1980s, starting with a Casio Digital Diary, then, in the 1990s, a Newton MessagePad 120.

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report - Teaching and Learning Edition was just released.

Canvas was hacked this week (starting around May 1, so over a week ago now).

When Google retired Jamboard, a lot of facilitators lost the tool they’d been quietly relying on.

This was the 10th annual University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, and it had the highest attendance for an in-person offering of the conference.

After creating a simple “design system” using UCalgary’s Brand resources, I uploaded a blog post, 2 ppt files, and a word doc with some links to Claude’s new “Claude Design” tool, and prompted: I want to build an interactive online module (as a web page “…

I’ve been playing around with some ideas for visualizing the notes and connections in my Obsidian vault, and how to go beyond just producing pretty pictures and into something that might be useful to make sense of the whole thing.

Reposting the UCalgary News post I wrote for our TI Newsletter: Digital Transformation (Dx) in higher education has largely been framed as an organizational and IT challenge: enterprise systems, cloud migration, data governance, workforce development.

All of my links for the last few months have been saved in my bookmarks tool, and I’ve been finding that useful.

I’ve been running this site on Hugo for several years now, and for most of that time I used other people’s themes and tweaked things around the edges.

The scenario A mid-sized research university is developing its institutional response to generative AI.

Leading change in a university involves many kinds of participation at once.

The 2026 Oscars™ happened, and a questionable “AI Production Studio” and “AI Talent Agency’s”1 “AI Actor” tried to use the occasion to convince The Academy™ that replacing human actors with AI is actually good, and that they just need to fully embrace it…