Jian Ghomeshi – threadbare beauty

What would Jian do?

I posted this blog entry this week in response to Chapter 2 of danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens I’m really enjoying my role as facilitator in the TVO TeachOntario book club collaboration with the Ontario School Library Association. Our discussions are so rich. It’s never too late to join.…

February 2, 2016

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Is it possible to be proactive when technology and the use of social media sites changes so quickly?

A colleague of mine asked me this question today. Here’s my reply: I think it is possible to be proactive with technology and social media, because I think the growth of social networking is plateauing. In preparation for our group assignment on games, I have come across this business researcher, Seth Priebatsch, who says: For those of…

July 22, 2014

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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

I really enjoyed the tone of Satrapi’s writing….a combination of harsh truth and the quirky humour of a young teenager. Whether Satrapi has written this memoir as a young woman or older, she remembers accurately what it was like to appear fundamentalist in her public life but to be a rebellious teenager in her personal…

November 12, 2013

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