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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Trudeau's Memoirs

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I just got around to reading this in the last couple of months... wow. I've got a lot more respect for someone who was already a hero t...
Friday, July 02, 2010

thoughts on assessment

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What kinds of values do I hope to encounter as I explore assessment? fair, balanced, and reasonable measurement balance of skills, knowledge...
Monday, June 14, 2010

why I quit my tech committee

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Sent to my school tech committee today... I have already supplied the committee with some suggested agenda items: listed Apr 29 for meet...
Friday, March 26, 2010

spinning my wheels

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i still hear guitars in the air as we sat in the sand
Sunday, February 28, 2010

where the wild things are

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Just finished the 2009 film version. Like most people my age, I read that book a thousand times as a kid, imagined myself as Max whenever t...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Please don't segregate my child

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The challenges facing our schools in Prince George are stunning. With demographic change, declining enrollment, transfer of provincial burde...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Going Prorogue

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http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15213212 Further evidence that we have a vacuum in leadership, this latest move b...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

proliferation of resemblances

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I had a curious lesson today... not really planned but turned out great. By not really I mean my course calendar said "Complete 4E, in...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Fine Art of Procrast

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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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