Summer 2024 was the first time in ten years that I had taken my full contractual month of annual leave to travel and spend quality time in the nearest approximation, by conventional standards, to what counts as “home.”
(more…)essays & commentaries & medievalisings
September pedagogical motivation
An idea board, collected and curated over the last year or so, in reverse chronological order from today back to mid-August 2023. May contain sequences, nonsequiturs, and serendipitous juxtapositions. May it provide inspiration and aspiration, ideally at least one giggle and one groan because they’re vital for your breathing.
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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: learning as radical pedagogy
It is time for the annual pilgrimage.
While the pace of this blog might vary through a calendar year, Ken Campbell Day remains a constant at the threshold of the educational year.
2024
INTELLIGENT LIFE
St Patrick’s Day 2024
Notes on meaningfulness, justice, equity, inclusion, and thriving as a Faculty of Arts (and as arts)
thoughts on “daylight savings time”
Sabbatical report
Welcome to a new rubric, WELLBEING: the radical revolutionary wing of The Consent Project.
Today’s motivational message:
You cannot catch up on sleep.
(more…)resources for French
This is a slightly more up-to-date version of the old outils utiles (2010). It was a version of my original 2003 curated collection of resources, and revised in turn through 2012-23: FREN 101 (ARCHIVE, 2013-18), FREN 102 (ARCHIVE, 2013-18), FREN 101 & 102 (2018-19, up to the March-April 2020 COVID-19 onlinising “pivot”), and UBC Canvas course sites (2020-24, access restricted to UBC Vancouver students taking these courses). These reference resources are primarily intended for university French language classes from CEFR levels A1 to B2; there’s some overlap with resources at the C1 level, for writing in French about literature (2017 version here). Thanks to JB, a student from summer 2023’s FREN 202 (CEFR A2) who asked for a version that’s available and accessible in the longer term: long live free open knowledge, mutual aid, and sustainability!
(more…)The Dendromorphoses return
31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, the radical education of seekers
It is time for the annual pilgrimage.
(Our Ken is not to be confused with the homonymous Canadian politician, Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, Canadian swimmer, assorted other sportsmen, a plastic doll, etc.)
This post is a collage accumulating in annual accretion: Campbellian education in action, learning-centred learning, every year another Station continues the post’s rambling Way of Sorrows.
Juliet O’Brien 