Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Sending and receiving mail – real mail, not electronic gibberish – has long been one of the many pleasures in my life. I reckon I post over two hundred pieces of mail each year, and while I receive only about one-tenth in return the main point of the exercise, for me, is entertaining myself…and maybe […]
It was very hard to create this and know it is my last one using this grand tool. So I addressed the issue of hope within. I hope you enjoy. I hope not against hope but for hope. Thanks for watching.
As I’ve said before, I’m an all or nothing kind of gal. My bestie is my biggest champion but never shies away from giving me a reality check. When describing my personality today she said: “You are like me….but, 100x me in every way… <smarter<better athlete<better body<harder worker<cares more about life <masters degree <bigger stress … Continue reading Why WordPress makes me want to cry →
Filed under: Web 2.0 in Education
It was 196_ , when I was a wee lad of eight years, that I met Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe. My parents were on holiday at the time and my brother and I were staying with family friends. They noted that Gordie Howe was coming to town and would be signing autographs at Eaton’s […]
A friend of mine posted to Facebook today that he was having trouble with a WordPress install. WordPress refused to serve any post with a comment on it, preferring to issue an Error 500 instead. I’ve been mucking about with WordPress for, like, 7 whole months now, so of course I volunteered to take a … Continue reading You’ve got a friend in me →
Part of the application of my learning during YouShow has been designing a connected professional development course for our OLFMs in Open Learning. I have taken a great deal of what I’ve learned here about RSS and general WordPressing and applied that knowledge to the course and I am grateful for Alan’s and Brian’s openness […]
The world around us is filled with extravagant beauty and being from British Columbia has only opened my eyes to the wonders of camp sites, hiking trails, and waterfalls. The outdoors is one of my favourite places to be and adventure is one of many methods I use to learn and grow as an individual. […]
To experience in the active sense requires that one venture forth into the unfamiliar and experiment with the elusive and the uncertain. To become an expert one must dare to confront the perils of the new. – Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and PlaceFiled under: Experiential Tagged: Discovery, Experiential, Experimentation
This week I caught the last film in the 2015 winter series of the Kamloops Film Society. Despite the gentle encouraging from Jon Fulton this is only the second Film Society showing I got to see. But this one so […]