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Sunday, October 25, 2009

IT

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"It is really raining outside" my 5-yr-old daughter Lu says as we are driving towards the art gallery for Sunday afternoon drop-in...
Friday, October 02, 2009

refreshing/reminding

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I've had two experiences in my Socials 10 classes in the last week that have refreshed my perspective and reminded me of how important a...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Pure Vanity

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My friend Rob inspired me with his lookalike post ... I always get Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry confused myself. Anyways, I...
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imogen heap

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Here's the day you hoped would never come Don't feed me violins just run with me through rows of speeding cars. The papercuts the ch...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Muslim Enlightenment

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I'm coming to the end of Ali's book on fundamentalism(s) and he is carefully trying to explain how, as a critic of religion and bel...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

What I'm reading

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Clash of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali (see interview on his even newer book ). After he establishes his leftist credentials, he moves into...

Dressing the Assessment

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I read an interesting op-ed piece in the PG CItizen... Student Academic Excellence Deserves Recognition , basically arguing that removing ac...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Election Day in BC choices

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Why I want to vote Green... their platform represent the kind of society I'd like to live in: sustainable development, just and caring s...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

moving forward

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Wow do I ever dislike this cliche... a handy and trendy catch-all that suggests "we've made a decision, we hope it's the right ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Eastwood's Gran Torino

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I guess this is my movie pick of the year... which says a lot to me. First, It was good -- the redemption factor of Unforgiven and the ve...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Digital Storytellers Pro-D session

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How can/do our students tell us about what they are learning? How is technology helping or hurting in the demonstration of learning? How ca...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

carts of darkness

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A student reminded me about this one... I remember it was in the news a couple of years ago, some controversy over the ethics of making a ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Anthem in N.B.

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You've seen the story ? I caught a video story on this again last night, too. A New Brunswick elementary principal (Millet, see pic)...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Skookum Presentations!

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So, my two Social Studies 10 classes have been presenting "Heritage" projects for the last few days and I am "caught" (a...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

It's just hair!!!

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I'm amazed how many people freaked out when I put in the dreads and then later when I cut them off. Most comments implied that it all ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Paris of the North

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Saw this on the CBC News website story on the big plywood plant fire and subsequent fires in the BCR industrial site in Prince George. The...

Romeo

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I had a chance to hear Romeo Dallaire speak to delegates at a Colleges Conference in PG. Wow... he had a few interesting loose ends that le...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

All grown up

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My Nephew Matt has moved to Squamish! He's the first of my siblings' kids to leave the nest and has set a unique standard for doin...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Identity Curriculum Technology links

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wikis and currikis - online community used to develop and share open source knowledge and curriculum
 Wikispaces -- http://www.wikispaces.co...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Swaraj

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I've been reading The Essential Gandhi (edited by Louis Fischer), and have emerged with both guilt and hope. Guilt because I recognize...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

Quatchi, Miga, and Sumi

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What do you think of the 2010 mascots? Compare them with some "winners" from past olympics .
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

panic and mirth

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So... our server crashed at school on Thursday and the staff and students went without internet, email, home folders, everything on the comp...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Finn

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Finn, our son, born 4:55 am, Tuesday, April 17th weighed 8 lbs 7 oz (3.83 kg) length 20.7" (52.5 cm) head circumference 13.8" (35 ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Help me pick our baby's name

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MALE (pretty sure it's a boy): Alec, Aragorn, Avi, Bëor, Fëanor, Fin/Finn, Hemlock, Lewis, Lief/Liev, Mac, Max, Oromë, Ossë, Owen, Pierr...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

fun with photobooth

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Monday, March 12, 2007

response to technology issue

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A response to a developing technology issue in my district... the plan to make elementary schools go to a single platform ("minutes...
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from the District Technology Team Minutes 07.02.27

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[Here lies an issue which deserves a response...] "Funding for technology at the elementary level Given the challenges elementary s...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Frankenfoods... my kids will not be lab rats!

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After watching " The Truth About Genetically Modified Food ," I’m more convinced than ever that Canada needs mandatory labelling o...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Diamond's top 12

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From " Collapse ," here is Jared Diamond's most serious environmental problems facing past and present societies: 1. Destruct...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Christmas reading

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I'm not sure why, but against the advice of almost everyone I respect, I never bothereed to pick up and read A Sand County Almanac by A...