Good News! This spring, Transportation Solutions published a Bicycle Friendly Universities report for the University of Denver. Â The report details a number of issues related to the bicycle-friendliness of the campus area, and recommends how the University can work to improve the safety and effectiveness of bicycling infrastructure for the DU community. In response, the…
DU Transportation Sustainability Survey
DU Students: Please take the DU Transportation Sustainability survey! https://udenver.qualtrics.com/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine/?SID=SV_55uusOZoUUZ2e8c&_=1 This is part of DU’s Sustainability and Transportation course, in which students studying the social and environmental elements of transportation and learning to promote healthier ways of meeting individual and community needs while reducing the social and environmental impacts of mobility practices.  The survey will investigate…
Bicycle Friendliness Resolution: Passed
Good news for Bicyclists and Pedestrians in the DU Area – the University of Denver Sustainability Council supports your transportation habits. This morning, during the University Sustainability Council’s May 2012 meeting, the DU Transit Committee presented a Bicycle Friendliness Resolution.  The resolution states the following: The University of Denver is committed to reducing its carbon footprint…
The Road Ahead 2012
“The Road Ahead 2012: Connecting Livable Communities” Videography by Ethan Crawford, RockyMedia
DS106 Hello World!
This is the first of several posts related to the DS106 course I’m taking as an open-internet participant. Here is a short description of DS106, taken as excerpts from the about DS106 page: Digital Storytelling (also affectionately known as ds106) is an open, online course …  you can join in whenever you like and leave whenever…
Ignite Denver 10
Ignite Denver 10 OFF THE WAGON - September 27, 2011 Hosted as part of the Great American Beer Series, in partner with Denver Off the Wagon and the 2011 Great American Beer Festival Sherman Street Event Center, Denver, Colorado Videography and Broadcasting by Ethan Crawford
HAPPY World Car-Free Day
It’s September 22, 2011 – the last day of Summer this year. I can’t help but reflect on all those summery things that we leave behind: bright mornings, sweet iced coffees, balmy bike rides, popsicles, raging outdoor chicken parties, beer-in-hand kickball, zip-lining into mountain lakes, warm nights of cricket & locust chorus, and other stuff. Sayonara,…
Careful what you wish for
For the past several years I’ve been wishing for the return of old-school colorado summers, when the monsoons would sweep through each afternoon, cooling & cleansing the city and offering a sweet drink for my gardens. Â Yet Each year Denver seems to get more and more dry, with less snow in the winters and less…
Ignite Denver 9
Ignite Denver 9 -Â June 21st, 2011 Oriental Theater, Denver, Colorado Videography & Broadcasting by Ethan Crawford
Ignite Denver 8
Ignite Denver 8 – March 22, 2011 Oriental Theater Denver Colorado Videography & Broadcasting by Ethan Crawford
Sankofa: Spirituals Project Performance
Sankofa, a cappella ensemble, part of the Spirituals Project Recorded by Ethan Crawford, February 18, 2011 The Spirituals Project is dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the music and teachings of the sacred songs called “spirituals,” created and first sung by enslaved Africans in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Through its diverse program of concerts, lectures and workshops,…
GIS Revelations
The following excerpt came from the final comments I offered in a discussion board for an online course I took in Fall 2010, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. (It was an entirely online course, which was an good experience that I’ll discuss in another post someday. For now, I’ll just mention that I was pleased…
Ignite Denver 7
Ignite Denver 7 – July 27, 2010 Oriental Theater, Denver, Colorado Videography & Broadcasting by Ethan Crawford
Ignite Denver 6
Ignite Denver 6 – March 2, 2010 Rackhouse Pub, Denver, Colorado Videography and Broadcasting by Ethan Crawford
Live Video Test
Tomorrow is Ignite Denver 6! Are you going? You can be there in person at the Rackhouse Pub, or you can just wear your jammy pants and watch it from home. Because I’ve gone to the effort to send it right to you, wherever you may be.
Why & How I Built an Auto Retweet
Last month I setup an auto retweet, so that every tweet from @ignitedenver would be immediately reposted by @ethang (my personal twitter account). If that doesn’t make sense to you, you should start with a twitter primer, or learn about 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter first.
2010 and other great things
Greetings to you all. I’m Ethan Crawford, a khaki-wearing, half-introverted hominid by weekday, and a simple (albeit curious and social) gentleman by evening/weekend. I have a variety of documentarian persuasions, ranging from playful experiments in the the arts (such as photography, videography, sketching, and singing), to more formal attempts at research and truth-seeking (mostly focused…
UNESCO Forum on Open Education Resources
The UNESCO Virtual University has generated a lot of activity with their Forum on Open Course Content. The online discussion was held from October 24 to December 2, 2005, and brought together a diverse group of individuals from 90 countries. In February 2006, the event’s final report was released (attached). An email list was recently…
Live ePresence webcast demonstration
The ePresence community will be hosting a live webcast demonstration of their latest release ( ePresence 3.1) tomorrow. This is an open source system for content capturing, archiving, and webcasting, developed by the University of Toronto Knowledge Media Design Institute. The latest release incorporates live webcasting, VOIP, podcasting, screen capture and powerpoint support. Has anybody…