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Skip Star Trek: The New Adventures, Trust Me!
Star Trek: The New Adventures (Volume 1) This is probably the worst Star Trek comic in existence. And I guess that makes sense since it was meant to bridge between the two latest movies. This reboot with a new cast failed miserably in my humble opinion. I have always loved Star Trek and was hoping this comic…
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Rita – My New Favourite Show
Rita is a brilliant television series from Denmark that is now available on Netflix. It’s the first foreign language show that I have ever watched. You need to turn on the subtitles, but it is well worth the effort. This is one of my favourite scenes from Season One. The story revolves around the school’s…
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Chasing Content – The Best of Last June
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that looks back at what was happening last year at this time. You can read all of the posts from last June . . . or just these favourites! Artists Don’t Have a Never-Ending Well Art is worth something. It actually takes work and…
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Walpole Island Skatepark
Let’s go explore the skatepark at Walpole Island First Nation. It’s one of the first things you see when you drive over the bridge and enter the reservation. There are all sorts of ledges to grind. The quarter pipe is a little taller than I would like it to be. This park is made for…
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Teachers and Students NEED Creativity!
I regularly think outside of the box and find ways to be creative in both my personal and professional life. I often have co-workers comment about how creative I am. The thing often unsaid in these conversations is that they don’t see themselves as creative and they wish they could do these kind of activities…
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness
Rap Music and Street Consciousness by Cheryl L. Keyes I enjoy reading scholarly work on rap music and hip-hop culture. This is the second book I’ve read from this author. Her book, Black Noise is also a great read and I would recommend both. I like how she addressed the constant criticism this music gets…
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Social Media and Print Media Converge in CREATIV
These are the first two issues of Creativ Magazine, an ambitious project to celebrate creativity in all its forms. In a day and age where many print publications are going belly up and others switching over to being completely digital, it’s a bold move. The magazine highlights creative people in sports, music, painting, photography, film,…
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Updated – Free Method Book for Beginning Band
My favourite resource for teaching instrumental music is a long out-of-print book called Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps. I absolutely love it. It is organized brilliantly, starts out students with pieces they can immediately have success on, and it introduces new notes and topics at a good pace. I have tried out other method books…
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Chasing Content – May 2014
Blog posts get buried in the archives so quickly. That is why once a month, I look back at the posts that were published exactly a year ago with a little feature called Chasing Content. You can read all of the posts from last May, or just these presonal favourites. When Will I Ever Use…
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WWW: Series Concludes with Wonder
Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer Most science fiction tends to demonize any kind of intelligence that arises from a machine. I don’t know why but self-aware robots, intelligent computers, or artificial intelligence lifeforms always end up becoming evil in these stories. That’s not the case with this story, however. This is the final chapter in a…