Tweets
Yeah, my coworker brought me Black Forest cake. Thanks, Kamila! http://t.co/pBCKR7oB The Internet called. It wants you to stop worrying that your pre-teens are learning about sex at the museum: http://t.co/1GbEj1gK Ben encounters a wild CV. CV uses “empty Additional Qualifications section”! It’s super-effective! Ben has fainted! “Nikola Tesla / I wish you’d invent a / current that could activate my heart” http://t.co/kEuQ2dZX
Recent Blog Posts
Educating the “innocent”: This classroom is not yet rated
A few weeks ago I discussed gender stereotypes in ads with my Grade 8 class. I knew I would have no trouble finding examples to bring in to demonstrate what I meant. Indeed, I found this awesome website, the Gender Ads Project, with thousands of scanned magazine ads categorized by the stereotypes they portray. What I didn’t anticipate was how difficult it would be to find ads that both clearly demonstrate a stereotype and are safe for a Grade 8 classroom.
Sailing off the edge
Last Thursday I wrote my final exam as an undergraduate university student. This marks the end of my formal schooling (for now). I have this week off, which is a welcome break and short vacation, and then I begin my second five-week practicum. Come the last full week of April, I will be finished completely. No more assignments. No more tests. I’ll be a transcript and some bureaucratic processing away from being a certified teacher. I have mixed feelings about being finished school.
So I knit now
So I’m knitting now. Katie, a friend I have made among my class of teacher candidates, is an avid knitter. (Her teachables also happen to be the same as mine—math and English—how cool is that?) Eventually our conversations about her knitting culminated in an offer to teach me how to knit. I was not digging for this—the thought had honestly never crossed my mind.
An open letter to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Recently I talked about the threat to Canada’s public domain. The following is a letter I have sent in response to the government consultation on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As with all my blog posts, it is published under a Creative Commons Attribution license. I encourage you to speak up by February 14 and write your own letter declaiming the desecration of the public domain!
The new cat in the house
This has traditionally been a two-cat house. Last August one of our cats, Marble, died. We knew we were going to get another cat eventually, but then our basement flooded and required repairs, so we had to postpone until after Christmas. Finally, the day before New Year’s Eve, we went to the Humane Society to pick out a pet. We found Sarah. She is a two-month-old (almost three months now, I guess) tabby.
Top 10 best and worst books I read in 2011
It’s that time of year again. Took me a little longer to do it, but I did it: I chose the 10 best and 10 worst books that I read last year. You can view their respective lists by following the links below: Best Books I Read in 2011 Worst Books I Read in 2011 Part of the reason for the delay was that I finally decided to bite the bullet and attempt to import all of my Goodreads reviews en masse.
