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Installation After-math
Posted on June 4, 2011 | No CommentsWhat a fabulous experience! Last weekend, was my long awaited documentary-media/graduation installation at Inglenook Community High School. Between the Doc Now audience and the audience who came as a result of the Doors Open Toronto that Inglenook was a part of, a large variety of... -
Installation weekend!
Posted on May 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsThanks for dropping in on the Wired To Learn installation! Please take a moment to add a comment below regarding any of the following questions: How did the media/interviews presented in this exhibit resonate with you? How do you feel education should be conducted in... -
Inglenook It Is!
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsChoosing the right space for my documentary media installation was a challenge. Initially, it was clear. It would have be in a classroom that resembled my Alma mater, Villa-Maria (which, because it’s in Montreal was not an option for the Toronto finale). Why would Villa... -
OMG, we’re dumb!
Posted on February 8, 2011 | No CommentsI feel so invaded! I’m reading my way through several books about education and I just picked up John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down (1992). For those of you who have read it, you’re probably chuckling and thinking to yourself “yep, I felt the same... -
A Bridge in the Room
Posted on January 5, 2011 | 1 CommentBefore the holidays I had the pleasure of interviewing Leah Sherry, a high school teacher (who prefers to be called a “facilitator”) and some of her students at the CICO Education Program (Community In, Community Out) in Toronto’s Annex district. Leah teaches media literacy at... -
The pleasure of a ludic classroom
Posted on December 15, 2010 | 1 CommentThis past semester I took a course called Advanced Topics in the History of Documentary. We covered a wide range of topics, theorists and genres of film-making (from Michel Foulcault & Michael Moore to Guy Maddin & Robert Lepage) and all the while being forced... -
Needs in school and not home-school!
Posted on September 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe last shoot in Montreal, at LaurenHill Academy, was fun! The anticipated 3-4 interviewees turned into 5 that needed to be filmed as a group during their lunch hour. The night before I was trying to figure out how I would incite conversation from students... -
Freedom Writers
Posted on July 25, 2010 | No CommentsWell now, I haven’t sobbed like that in a while! I’m one of the programmers for the wonderful Regent Park Film Festival (in Toronto) and I just finished viewing a documentary film based on the Freedom Writers Diary which is about how a high school... -
You don’t have a learning style, apparently.
Posted on July 21, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhat?! Are you kidding me? If there’s no such thing as learning styles I may as well drop my whole thesis project and go get a real job! This theory is discussed in Daniel Willingham book Why don’t Students Like School? I discovered his book... -
Fabulous 2 days
Posted on June 6, 2010 | 1 CommentYah! So great to have unexpected events that add so much to your work! This past Thursday, I had an interview lined up with, Darren, a teacher from A.S.E. 1 alternative school in Scarborough (ON). I asked for an hour of his time and I...
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