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Canadian Conversations
Yup. Over the course of the past few weeks, I have had a number of conversations with Unplugd participants Tom Fullerton, Andy Forgrave and Stephen Hurley, as well as #ds106radio folks like @drgarcia...
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#DS106Radio, 4Life
It will come as no surprise to those that know me that I have been swallowed whole by the vortex of not only Jim Groom‘s Digital Storytelling 106 course, but its off-shoot creation, #DS106radio: …a...
View ArticleTalons’“Focus Time”
As TALONS facilitators, Ms. Mulder and I try not to make teacher-centered lectures and lessons too often the focus of our daily use of class time, preferring instead to use our common time and space...
View ArticleSaskatchewan Street Poetry
My sister saw this poem scrawled on a wall in Saskatoon in the summer of 2010, and shared it with us when she got back. I copied it down and carried it around in a journal for a few months before...
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Tell this story.
Talons talking erratically In brainstorming a way to synthesize the myriad tangents and threads being pursued in our recent study of rebellion and revolution in Egypt, as well as 1860s Manitoba, I...
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Sharing in whim
I know teachers tend to throw out mixed messages, “Be open, share. Be careful, be scared.” This could be an authentic real world experience to create something beautiful with a larger group of people...
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A Week without Technology
Essential classroom technology A few weeks ago, I wrote: I would also be interested in establishing a school learning community that values face-to-face dialogue, debate, and experiential, first-hand...
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Essay as Blogpost: Cellphones in the Classroom
Busking captured by cellphone. As even the devil might need an advocate from time to time, I thought I’d offer a few points in support of delaying the rounding up of the school’s cell phones and...
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The TALONS meet the Golden Spruce
The Golden Spruce won the Governor General's Award for English Language non-fiction in 2005. “… a creature that seemed more at home in a myth or fairy tale: a spruce tree with golden needles.” The...
View ArticleA Summer in Pictures
As a means of dusting off the blog after a long summer’s nap, I’ve embedded a collection of my Flickr photos from the last few months spent kayaking, concert-going, camping, hiking, and otherwise...
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