The Internet is making us illiterate. Word processors make us poor spellers. PowerPoint is killing discourse. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans. Facebook is amusing us to death. For a while now, I’ve been rather pessimistic about social media and what it’s doing to us as a literate species. Being something of a language...
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It’s the end of literacy as we know it…and I feel fine
What I’m Reading – The Stand
Having just recently read Stephen King’s newest epic, Under the Dome, not only has my interest in King has been rekindled, but my childhood interest in reading as well. It brought to mind my love of sweeping, fantastic, and post-apocalyptic epics such as Lord of...
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“Michael”
I coach the occasional Sunday WOD at CrossFit Regina. The custom at CFR is that the Sunday coach gets to pick the workout. I suppose it’s a perk for coming in on a Sunday to coach. Somehow, I always manage to abuse this perk...
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“Jackie”
I popped into CrossFit Regina this afternoon to squeeze in a quick WOD before going to a dinner party. My girlfriend, Julie, and I brainstormed and decided I should...
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What do you see?
Currently, in my ELA B10 class, we are discussing racial tensions, stereotypes, and prejudice. I began the unit by having them look at this at this image and write...
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“Isabel”
For today’s WOD, I chose to do one of CrossFit’s benchmark girls – “Isabel”. Isabel, for the uninitiated, demands that you do 30 snatches for time. I’ve had a...
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