I am more-or-less testing using video on the blog here – just grabbed a You Tube video of the Tyndale Talons basketball team taking a nice 3point shot!

A Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

Today some of Tyndale’s online resources were mentioned in a blog post here. Ben is a popular blogger – his post will give great exposure to Tyndale!

Believe it or not – I have a life outside of Tyndale
I have been involved in youth ministry for many years now and one of the highlights of every year for me is the annual retreat. This year we returned to Medeba for the fourth year in a row. It is a great facility and I am kinda partial to it being on the board

This year I had asked the Tyndale worship team (Colin, John and Joshua) if they would consider coming to do the worship. They accepted and joined us this weekend for a great time. As usual they did a great job and represented Tyndale well. I just wanted to say a special thanks to them for their help.

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Lately there has been a great surge in Tyndale faculty requesting a web site. This is awesome! We have developed a easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for them to use. This makes creating the data for their web pages really easy. Here are some examples of faculty sites.

The other day I also had a faculty (Richard Davis) come by my office for some advice on a newsletter. He was in the process of creating a newsletter for his department – the purpose of this newsletter was promotion. Not promotion of himself but of Tyndale and the Philosophy program that he is part of. He was convinced that putting out this newsletter would draw the attention of more prospective students.

I like Richard’s thinking – I know that he is not the only one thinking this way either – especially on the University College side of the faculty. Newsletters, blogs, web sites, wiki’s and so on are all great tools to deliver information within the educational context – but these are also great promotional tools!

Are you a faculty member? Do you have some great ideas of ways to use technology either in the classroom or for promotional purposes? Do you need our help to do it? We have this down to an art now and would love to help! Give us a call…

Last night I spent the evening with my kids walking the streets in the dark – some call this trick-or-treating! I was amazed by some of the great designs carved into the pumpkins left in front of the door steps. I am both a developer and a designer and tend to look at the things around me from a design perspective. When I look at the sky I often wonder how I could replicate that gradient in a graphics application – some things are better left to God I guess.

Now my family pumpkin was no designer piece – it was a nice clean design – very typical as you can see – but nothing special (from a design perspective that is). My daughter Rachael and I had a great time carving it and even signed the back once we were done – it is a piece of art!

Many of the ones we saw as we walked from house to house were quite amazing – design is everywhere