That title should be self explanatory…
Hi everyone.
So 3506 is done anyway, my part anyway, as it’s just student presentations left. Stats, well, there’s still stuff to do, but I have all of the old classes available in podcast form!
Classes are cancelled. Mine already were because I broke my leg (!), but now the university has cancelled classes due to #COVID19 (which is the right call).
See you in September.
Music ‘First Semester Freedom Fighter’ by Hell of Highwater.
It turns out today that my old reliable iRiver FP720 died. The record button is stuck. I have another recorder, in fact a better one, but, I will miss wearing my little cheapo ebay mic.
The upshot of this is, that today’s BIOL 3406 / PSYC 3306 lecture was lost. Sorry everyone.
I am moving over to a Zoom H2, which is a nice recorder, and it will pick up class questions much better as well. Still, I have been using the iRiver for four years.
Well, we got Netflix streaming in Canada today, so I have that going for me….
I was nominated for a SSMart award run by the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre this year as ‘Innovative Educator of the Year’. Due to my podcasting of my lectures, popularizing science using the web etc etc. So that was cool… Apparently, I won. I could not make it to the awards, but I asked the university president, Dr. Celia Ross to accept on my behalf if I won.
I was following on twitter and on the liveblog of the event as you can see below.
Celia read this little speech for me, thanks Celia
“I wish I could be there, but I am off to Podcasters Across Borders 2010 in Ottawa to moderate a panel. Â I would like to thank Algoma University for being a great place to work, and for their encouragement for my teaching and research. Â Universities are great, you can try new things, and while I may be one of the first profs ever to podcast their lectures (man that sounds pretentious…) I am first and foremost a faculty member at Algoma, which I am very proud of.
Thanks to the Innovation Centre people for picking me of course and for this event. Â Cool stuff is happening in Sault Ste. Marie and dare I say, especially at Algoma University.
I would like to thank my colleagues in the psychology department (Cheryl Reed-Elder, Laurie Bloomfield, Paul Dupuis and Dwayne Keough), Marc Pelletier and Tom Merritt of TWiT.tv, my buddies Ken Hernden and Robin Isard who I do one of my podcasts with and all of the people that download my lectures on iTunes.
Finally, on a purely personal note, thanks to my wife Isabelle and our kids, Jon and Maddie for putting up with my obsession with technology and frankly for putting up with me. Â This year my brother won a Juno award for recording engineer of the year, and now I have an award too. Â So there Dan. Â Our Dad Rick and Mom Leslie inspired us both, so my final thanks are to my parents.”
Guys,
I have an emergency to deal with so I cannot hold classes on Monday or Tuesday. You should have received an email already from the faculty secretaries’ office saying so, but I just wanted to be clear. Everything should be back to normal, or as normal as it can all be, by Wednesday.
Dave
Hey everyone. As most of you know I am always happy to chat with students on Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger). When I log in to XBox live I also am logged in to Windows Live Messenger. If my status on Messenger says ‘XBox Live – Halo 3 dbrodbeck’ or some such thing, I am busy pwning n00bs. So unless it is an emergencey you are not going to get a reply. That said feel free to add me to your friends list on xBox Live.
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And you thought I didn’t like cellphones in class…
Check out this guy.