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Catalonia
I have been following the lead up to the Catalan referendum on October 1st with great trepidation. For years, the government of Mariano Rajoy has refused to deal with the Catalan sovereignty movement...
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Cross-disciplinary collaboration (part 1)
This is part 1 of 3 of a series on how Tyson Seburn and I collaborate on an assignment we teach in our courses: Critical Reading and Writing and Themes of World History. One of my favourite parts of my...
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Cross-disciplinary collaboration, pt 2
Read part 1 first! In this post, I look in more detail on how Tyson Seburn and I collaborated in designing assignments in our respective courses to improve learning and develop critical thinking. In...
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I spent a few hours today and yesterday creating a blog for the New One program. Students wrote blog posts throughout the term and we are slowly adding this to our program blog. There are still a few...
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Cross-disciplinary collaboration, part 3
Before you read this post, start with part 1 and part 2 of this post first and check out Tyson Seburn’s series as well. Results As I explained in the previous two posts, the goal of the Lecture Notes...
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When research becomes procrastination
Facebook helpfully reminded Dana and I that it’s been six years from our first visit to the archives in Girona hoping to put together a project and apply for a SSHRC grant: We went again for another...
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Trying to organize notes (again!)
image from Lifehacker – click on image to see post. It’s that time of year when I have a bit more time to read and plan. I’m designing a new course, making changes to an existing course, and just...
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Adapting to a global pandemic
Back to the blog Better late than never. I had been thinking a lot about this blog over the last couple of years. The loss of ten years of blogging to malware a few years ago (don’t ask; it is still...
View ArticleBack to school
This past Monday I started an online course called Course Design for Online, taught by CTSI here at U of T. The course takes two weeks – the first week is all asynchronous with five modules to be...
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For those of us in Academia, August can be a bit frantic as we prepare our classes for September. In IFP, we do a lot of course planning in May but there is invariably many elements to finalize closer...
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