Currently listening (re-listening for the 3rd time) to Tressie McMillan Cottom’s audiobook, THICK. Had to draw some of the stuff to hold the ideas longer. Thick is a collection of essays where narratives flow beautifully into arguments that are so clear and cogent that you cannot disagree. Usually, by the end of the chapter I… Read More »
UPDATE 01/18/19: This post has been linked from Canadaland blog and I’m so honoured. I’m tidying up some of the off-topic rants to be more to the point. Usually I have a great ability to ignore ads. I’ve been too lazy (negligent) to use ad blockers because I just skip pas the ads. But this… Read More »
Presentation slides and resources from Writerly Wednesday, November 1, 2017 This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office Online. Quick Link resources: Nick Sousanis Unflattening #remixthediss #gridgestures Sunni Brown Doodler’s Unite Rob Dimeo’s Sketchnote Handout Research D’Antoni et al.: Does the mind map learning strategy facilitate information retrieval and critical thinking in medical students?.… Read More »
Brock University Department of Communications, Film, and Popular Culture hosted a Data Privacy panel talk this week. Cogeco Cable was onsite to record. I was onsite to visual note record, as I’m a big fan of both Natasha Tusikov and Karen Louise Smith. Following the arc of her amazing (and terrifying) book Chokepoints, Dr. Tusikov… Read More »
It’s been a slow blogging year for me but not because of a lack of things to write about. This spring one project I’ve been pleased to work on with some fun Historians here at Brock University has been presented at Historians Teaching History, CAUCE-CNIE, and now STLHE. Professors Michael Driedger and Daniel Samson made… Read More »
Scaffolding has been one of my favourite metaphors for teaching and learning since I learnt of Vygotsky during my psychology of child development course in second year undergrad. Today, I briefly opened twitter to see this provocative statement: Scaffolding is "colonial, patriarchal, and disempowering" https://t.co/pWoYSQ4CQ9 #moocmooc — Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) January 25, 2016 I… Read More »
Tales of the Collaborative Journey… With help from a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities I was able to dedicate a large portion of my summer working on this super cool project, led by Dr. David Fancy from Brock University’s Dramatic Arts department and logistically managed by my Centre for Pedagogical… Read More »
Yesterday, Tuesday April 28 was the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation’s annual Spring Perspectives teaching & learning day. This year, our former director Dr. Barry Joe is retiring after 35 years at Brock University. In 2013, Barry had launched a new initiative called the Last Lecture, based on a U.S. tradition of having a faculty culminate the… Read More »
GNA Garcia, the gentlewoman scholar and one my favourite saunterers, first told me about the Henry David Thoreau’s, Walking essay. In it, Thoreau extolls the virtues of walking as a source of inspiration and generation of knowledge and reflection. My most recent jaunt through the woods, this past Friday at noon reminded me of this… Read More »
Stemming from an interesting question last week from a professor looking to control the release of his PowerPoint slides based on attendance to class, and our keyword alerts for “Brock” and “Sakai” yielded this student tweet, I was intrigued to look up any literature on the subject. https://twitter.com/milkshaiikh/status/554809257355657219 Apart from the fact that the LMS… Read More »