Bring your "A" game and course-management skills to Royal Oaks in Moncton, New Brunswick. I consider myself lucky to have carded a 107 yesterday.

At one point I carded five "sevens" -- everything from double to quad bogies -- in a row. Notwithstanding this sorry fact, I definitely recommend a round at this Canadian Maritime gem. As a "deal" or "value for your money," this course ranks up there with Kananaskis outside Calgary, Alberta. Although the course is inland, it very much looks and plays like a links course. The course is very well-designed and maintained with carpet-like fairways and greens.

Green fees of $65.00 -- what's that, about $ 22.50 (USD)? -- make Royal Oaks a "must play" when in Moncton.

A post from vacation. "What I'm doing on my summer vacation," if you will.

I'm in Moncton, New Brunswick -- Canada's only officially bilingual (English/French) city -- after a week in Ontario. For the past two weeks, I've been cottaging, golfing and catching up with family and friends in Eastern Canada. I'm having a great time.

Last week I golfed Eagle Creek in Dunrobin, ON was especially fun. It's designed by Ken Venturi and presents a challenge. Many "risk-reward" holes and hard-to-read greens make this a tester for golfers of all levels. The advanced tees present opportunities to "run" the ball to the green. Forced carries over water and waste bunkers are in store for golfers from the other tee boxes.

The course "played long" because it was soaking wet from thunderstorms the night before and I struggled to a 102 -- the first time in a while that I wasn't able to break the century mark.

I've just booked a time for tommorrow at Royal Oaks, "the first Canadian course designed by Rees Jones." My father-in-law tells me that George H. Bush played there last week. I'm looking forward to playing the course and hope that I able to score a little better than I did at Eagle Creek -- I'll be back with a post following the round.

An edited version of a post I made today to my KMDI journal

I continue to be impressed with the way the series evolved over the spring. I was especially impressed with the way Dr. Baecker and his staff responded to feedback I provided regarding my experience and that of classmates attempting to attend the webcasts. All aspects of the series -- from production to archiving -- underwent significant improvement over the course of the 2002 series. I'm excited about next year's offerings. I'm particularly interested in the "social" aspects of technology and how groups of learners at remote sites might engage and build a knowledge base.

Ideally I'll one day have a journal like this describing my online participation in a course offered by the KMDI.

I'm half-tempted to write and ask Drs. Baecker and Nolan if I can be an online participant (auditor?) of the inaugural offering of KMDI 1000Y this fall.

I've updated my web site. I've added a link to my KMDI page.

The page was prepared as coursework for CTL 1606 at OISE/UT and offers my reflections on participation in the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)'s Spring Lecture Series.

Dr. Ron Baecker and his team are doing some incredible work and I encourage you to check out the archives of the series.

Last night I returned from a trip to Kansas City, Missouri and Leavenworth, Kansas. I was there to conduct SMART board ^TM interactive whiteboard Train-the-trainer sessions for the administrators, faculty and staff of the Command & General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

I had fun dialoging with these "power users" of our software and technology and I learned a lot.