project based learning Archive

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    The pleasure of a ludic classroom

    This 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...

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    Reading List and Dream School

    No escaping it. One must read to get a degree, and to contextualize what the thesis is… and what the thesis is trying to prove. I met with both of my advisers recently, Vinita and Alex, to sort through some pressing questions. One, how I...

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  • From video-A Vision of Students Today

    School was not meant for happiness

    I’ve been anxious to get this audio clip up of a phone conversation with my supervisor, Alexandra Bal, for a while now. Well, it’s more of a passionate monologue by her about our ailing system of education! It was great! Just what I needed to...

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    Freedom Writers

    Well 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...

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    Photos, text and publish

    I’m going through a bunch of links that have accumulated from my Google alerts. I’m on the hunt for those innovative ideas for the classroom. Most often you’ll find the links I like in my de.licio.us account (on the right). I thought I’d post a...

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