Big ideas at UBC are transcending geographic boundaries and connecting people at megabyte speed.
Whether you are an old hand at blogging or a newbie to Twittersphere, these members of UBC’s social media community are sure to enrich your life online.
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Blogs
- UBC FYI
Updates for students, by students
http://blog.students.ubc.ca/ubcfyi/ - UBC Blog Squad
Real UBC experience by real UBC students
http://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/ - Greenest City Scholars
UBC graduate students united on cyberspace by Vancouver’s goal to become the world’s Greenest City by 2020
http://gcscholars.tumblr.com/ - Marketing: Fun and useful, try now!
UBC Marketing Prof. Paul Cubbon helps you become a great marketer
http://blogs.ubc.ca/paulcubbon/ - Asia Pacific Memo
Accessible scholarly writing about contemporary Asia
http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ - UBC Insiders
Independent, student-run news source covering issues that matter at UBC
http://ubcinsiders.ca/ - A model campus garden on UBC’s Okanagan campus, the Learning Garden was originally designed and built by the Environmental Education graduate class and their instructor Dr. Veronica Gaylie in 2006
http://learninggarden.blogspot.com/ - Thoughts on Science and Math Education by UBC curriculum and pedagogy professor Marina Milner-Bolotin
http://blogs.ubc.ca/mmilner/ - Reportr.net
Dynamic blog on media, society and technology run by award winning journalist and UBC journalism professor Alfred Hermida
http://www.reportr.net/ - The Green Room
A UBC economist’s reflections on environmental policy
http://blogs.ubc.ca/sumeetgulati/ - Project GROW which stands for Ghana Rural Opportunities for Women—is a project based at the Okanagan campus aimed at improving the health and economic situation of women in northern Ghana.
http://ubcolearn.blogspot.com/ - Project Seahorse
Advancing marine conservation
http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/blog - Arts Wire
Engaging source of news and views from the Faculty of Arts
http://wire.arts.ubc.ca/
Top 10 tips for connecting with UBC Library, without setting foot in the stacks
| 10 | Learn to be a better student with Study Toolkits—topics include time management, note-taking and exam prep http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/student-toolkits/ |
| 9 | Boost your academic endeavors with tools, spaces, workshops or sit on the Student Library Advisory Council at the Okanagan’s Learning Commons http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/learningcommons/ |
| 8 | Call on the Library Robot (aka the Automated Storage and Retrieval System) to fetch a book, a journal, a map or a vinyl record on the Vancouver campus http://services.library.ubc.ca/borrowing/asrs |
| 7 | Find research and teaching materials, including 28,000 retrospective UBC theses and dissertations on cIRcle, UBC’s information repository—or contribute your own https://circle.ubc.ca/ |
| 6 | Peruse letters by Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale in the ever-growing digital collections http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca |
| 5 | Tour the sacred sites of Burma or peer into the psychology of gambling guided by Webcast lectures http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/webcasts/ |
| 4 | Hear Canadian writers Timothy Taylor, Matthew J. Trafford and Linda Besner read from their works this month in the Robson Reading Series http://www.robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca |
| 3 | Visit the historic Chung Collection and put yourself in the shoes of an early immigrant to B.C. from China http://chung.library.ubc.ca/ |
| 2 | Read what more than 20 UBC librarians are saying in the blogsphere http://blogs.ubc.ca/library/ |
| 1 | Make UBC Library part of your social network: @ubclibrary and www.facebook.com/ubclibrary |
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