Tag: Twitter

  • The Vancouver Sun asks: Can Technology Improve Literacy Skills?

    Last week The Vancouver Sun‘s digital life writer Gillian Shaw approached Erica Hargreave to discuss the effect technology is having on literacy skills.  An issue often discussed in the Ahimsa Media office and, it would seem, many other offices too. Gillian’s article went to press on Saturday, and it was fascinating to read the full…

  • Delta School District = a Social Media History Maker

    Cross-post from DSD Youth Activities Pretty impressed with the forward thinking of the Delta School District, as as far I am aware they will be one of the first school districts in Canada to fully embrace social media this summer, by actually offering students a course in it. That’s right, the Delta School District is…

  • Making Twitter History in Yorkton, Saskatchewan

    A very cool thing happened to us at this years Yorkton Film Festival.  We hit the ‘top ten trending twitter topics’! Now I know what some of you are thinking, so what, we do that all the time at various events here in Vancouver.  Well, what made this hit on the ‘top ten trending twitter…

  • The Yorkton Film Festival Goes Interactive

    Most excited to be heading off to the Yorkton Film Festival this week with Tris Hussey (from m2o)  and Emme Rogers. The three of us, along with locals, Richard Gustin, Karen Brownlee, and Lee Robertson will be demoing Interactive Storytelling to the Festival by telling the Festivals story through tweets, snapping pics, blogging and possibly…