The holiday season can be stressful for parents, with last minute shopping trips, hosting and attending parties and family gatherings, and travel preparations.
When people find out that I’ve just completed a university class and have registered for another one next term, years after getting my Bachelor of Education degree, they often ask one of the following questions:
Are you getting your Masters? (No.)…
I am checking out Tumblr—found out about it on Twitter. I want to know how this Web2.0 site may or may not be useful in the classroom.…
For our final presentation/final exam for our ECMP355 class we had to do a modified Pecha Kucha presentation – we used 16 slides for 15 seconds each. The theme was to explore what we had learned in our class over the term, providing narration for our slides. …
For the past two years I’ve been completing my Bachelor’s of Education in Adult Education through Brock University. Completing this degree was something I had set as a goal for myself and it was part of some unfinished educational business for me.…
It seems that when inspiration collides head-long into loneliness and self-doubt – I find myself lofting into the great unknown. The last serious life-changing collision was in the Spring of 2002 – where I met my husband in an online dating service after a lonely Easter weekend. …
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Attributed to Albert Einstein.
I’ve been writing this blog since 2005 and I’ve been trying to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in the Chicago region since 1993 when I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection.…
Over the past few months I’ve become an enthusiastic advocate and user of Scoop.it. It is no longer in Beta and has now gone public. It is a fantastic way to compile resources on a single topic and to share these resources with others who can choose to follow your updates.…