threadbare beauty

Struggling for perfection but my artist keeps getting in the way

  • Home
  • About
  • Latest Posts
  • Podcasts and Presentations
  • Publications
  • Great Canadian Reads
    • Reading Recommendations
  • Travelogue

Top Posts & Pages

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber (audiobook)
    The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber (audiobook)
  • DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
    DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
  • The Wild by Owen Laukkanen
    The Wild by Owen Laukkanen

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Tag: digital divide

on 02Jan2020December 31, 2019

Donde esta Alanna King? At the Jornada de Bibliotecas Escolares

by banana29
2

[This article was originally published in December 2019 edition of the Ontario School Library Association’s Teaching Librarian magazine] I am sitting in an auditorium in Buenos Aires, Argentina wearing headphones and a team of translators are converting every Spanish word spoken on stage for my benefit. As exciting as the journey itself has been, to […]

Rate this:

on 27Apr2018December 31, 2019

School libraries and eLearning: Answering the call for access and equity

by banana29

Michelle Campbell and I presented at CONNECT 2018 in Niagara Falls this week.  After some very encouraging conversations at Treasure Mountain Canada in October, we decided to take our ideas about the intersection of school libraries and eLearning success to the wider audience at this conference.  CanConnect attracts some of the greatest education influencers in […]

Rate this:

on 02Mar2016March 2, 2016

Why the internet isn’t a cultural remedy after all

by banana29

The first time I had an internet experience that crossed cultural boundaries was when I was using a first gen music sharing site like Napster to find J-Pop.  I just happened to notice that this particular pirate/curator liked a lot of the same music that I did from my first stint teaching ESL in Japan […]

Rate this:

on 21Jul2014July 21, 2014

It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd

by banana29
1

It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd My rating: 4 of 5 stars Throughout danah boyd’s “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens”, I’m very satisfied with the level of sophistication of boyd’s research and unbiased point of view in her writing.  Her tone is academic, professional and at the […]

Rate this:

Follow threadbare beauty on WordPress.com

Goodreads

Search

Recent Posts

  • Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
  • Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman
  • The Colony by Audrey Magee
  • Our Voice of Fire by Brandi Morin
  • Coming Home by Tu Vuong
Start a Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • threadbare beauty
    • Join 186 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • threadbare beauty
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar