There is at the surface infinite variety of things; at the centre there is simplicity of cause. Ralph Waldo Emerson For ten years (2007-2017) I taught a group of gifted students in the Coquitlam School District, in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia. You can check out the work they do on their site. I’ve also taught open online […]
Read more "A Little Background"I am now two weeks into this new experience as a Faculty Associate at SFU, having marked a transition to a new type of work, and yet also an extension of the type of work I have always done. A new community has been established, new relationships formed, and new students to arrive in another […]
Read more "Two weeks in"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. Ball, S. J., Thrupp, M., & Forsey, M. […]
Read more "A Unit Plan of One’s Own: References"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. Assessment Methods As students and participants in this […]
Read more "Assessment Methods, Feedback, and Grades"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. This proposed unit plan for assessment includes opportunities […]
Read more "Unit Plan of One’s Own: Unit Components"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. Within this modern context, it is important to […]
Read more "Toward a Critical Citizenship"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. Two forces at work in North American society […]
Read more "Apathy & Oligarchy in the Public Sphere"This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. As it is with running, so it is […]
Read more "Running, Writing & Living: to Make the Means the Ends"Notes and slides which served as a summary of learning at our cohort’s presentations in Vancouver on December 5th, 2015. The title comes from an essay by Virginia Woolf and has been used as the basis for a project started by Jim Groom and others at the University of Mary Washington called Domain of One’s […]
Read more "A Unit Plan of One’s Own: TIEGRAD Final Presentation"While I’ve been out of the #tiegrad loop with the FitBit frenzy, I am a devotee to employing a good bit of technology in my own fitness regime of late, and wanted to collect a few thoughts on how the phenomenon relates to digital storytelling and learning. Having received a Garmin GPS watch for […]
Read more "The Quantified Self"