I am an international student in Canada, and although Canada is very welcoming to many permanent and temporary immigrants from around the world, there are many details to be navigated, much bureaucracy to be dealt with, and often hard to find good advice or guidance. The last few summers I have had one recurring problem [...]

I just attended the second day of the Open Courseware Consortium conference in Logan, UT (the first day was for board members only), and thought I’d report on some of the things that caught my attention, and also comment on my own thoughts. There was lot’s of other things that I didn’t cover, much of [...]

During my undergraduate degree in International Development Studies, we had to spend a year working in a developing country, and develop a thesis based on primary research conducted in that country. I spent my year working in Jakarta (for CARE). While there, I came across the phenomenon of community-run libraries, which was extremely widespread and [...]

Although sadly anglophone Canada is not a great producers of good cinema, they are well known for supporting high quality documentaries, through the National Film Board of Canada. In Toronto they have a center with strange individual viewing stations, and they also frequently show movies in their large theatre (I remember seeing a strange Icelandic [...]