A couple of projects that I am involved in are up for BC New Media PopVox awards. The awards are part of  Vancouver Digital Week, designed to celebrate the digital media industry in British Columbia. The hyperlocal news website produced by UBC School of Journalism students, TheThunderbird.ca, is nominated in the Best Student Project award. We are also nominated in the Best Digital Learning Initiative (Instructional Design) category for a

My latest post for PBS Mediashift looks at how participatory media tools such as CoveritLive can be used in the classroom. One of the challenges, particularly in large undergraduate classes, is turning the traditional academic lecture into more of a conversation. Rather than simply being empty vessels to be filled with knowledge, I wanted to try out new ways for students to collaborate on distilling and creating knowledge. The aim