As mentioned in an earlier post, one of the problems that our department has struggled with over the past seven or eight years is the massive decline in student enrolments in our Computer Information Systems applied degreee and our Computer Science university transfer program. This year for the College's Open House for new students, I put together a series of posters that tried to put a friendlier spin on our two programs.. [More]

A new report entitled "Outlook on IT Enrolments" has been released by The Information and Communications Technology Council of Canada. [More]

This presentation is given to our first year students during our Orientation Day in the first week of classes. It is entitled 18 Ways to Fail Your Courses. [More]

This is the title of a paper I delivered at the 2007 WCCCE (Western Canada Conference on Computer Education) at Thompson University in Kamloops, BC.. [More]

Here is my presentation for a talk to students at Western Canada High School about careers in computing.. [More]

This is the title of a paper I'm delivering at the 2007 Microsoft Academic Days. The focus for this year's conference is Game Development in Computer Science Education. This paper describes how game development can be used to successfully teach design patterns to undergraduate computer science students.. [More]