The first thing I remember trying to memorize was “What a Wonderful World.” I was about four. My preschool had us kids perform occasional parent-impressing concerts, and my classmates and I surely must have learned more songs off by heart. But I liked “What a Wonderful World” so much that…
It’s summer, and I don’t have anything much to say at the moment (I know!), so it’s time for a second hiatus until after semester starts. Next post on Sept. 13!
Taking some time away from the blog to deal with a heavy workload! See you June 7! (Updated May 10 to reflect new working timeline. Hope you’re all doing well and able to stay safe out there!)
As I’ve mentioned before, the first quarter of the year is my worst quarter. I get sad and listless during during short winter days, we “spring forward” into exhaustion, Winter semester is somehow more difficult than Fall, and, oh, hey, it’s still a pandemic and we’ve been under full lockdown…
4:33 PM As the semester starts, I’m considering what I can do as an instructor to combat anti-Black racism in the classroom and the academy. Obviously, I can listen to the lived experience of folks and learn how to do my best to make my courses universally accessible–universal design helps…
But, in the meantime, here’s an article on specific, actionable ways to demand justice for Jacob Blake.
If you are white like me, here’s where we can educate ourselves on how to be good allies to Black folks and then act on it: https://www.adhoc.fm/post/black-lives-matter-resources-and-funds/ And here are some more places we can act on it if the action open to us right now is financial support: https://coveteur.com/2020/06/02/donate-racial-justice-organizations/…
I first learned about “timed writing” in my grade-eleven Writer’s Craft class. The concept is simple: it’s exactly what it sounds like. You set a timer, and then you write, continuously, until the timer goes off. At the time, I found it mildly confusing that this could be considered challenging.…
(At first, I thought this blog entry might not work during social isolation, since nobody is running into anybody now. But then I realized–actually, this is the perfect time to post! There are no stakes, people can consider the ideas without having to apply them right away, and nobody will…