From Art Teacher to Full-Time Dad: My Next Steps
This Friday I said goodbye to friends at Al-Risala Academy, an Islamic private school in Mississauga where I’ve taught since December 2015. As the primary program coordinator for Grades 5-8 and […]
TIC 3: The 8th Dimension, live online
In the original post that launched The Interdimensional Classroom series on gamification in education, I mentioned that my Grade 8 class would be working on websites to introduce their Guilds and […]
TIC 2: Online Media Gurus!
“Welcome to Online Media Gurus – the game that puts you in charge of your very own Media Empire! Whose content will dominate the globe? Play to find out!” This […]
‘Boreal Forest’ at Lynx Music
In December, I was hired on by Lynx Music, a recording studio in downtown Toronto (777 St. Clarens Ave) and did a mural to jazz up their awesomely old school […]
TIC I: Worldbuilding Express
Welcome to Part 2 of “The Interdimensional Classroom” (TIC) series on gamification in education! The topic for today’s chat is WORLDBUILDING. In my last post, I explained how the whole […]
Notes from THE INTERDIMENSIONAL CLASSROOM
Over the last two years as a regular classroom teacher, I’ve been on the hunt for new ways to rev motivation. The answer I stumbled upon is a simple one, it turns out: Create an alternate plane of existence.
Art Jail: Teaching Visual Studies in a Secondary School setting, Part One
Across the 10 or so years in which I’ve taught art, most of my experience has been with people who sign on to learn because they want to. Many tell […]
One Amazing Doodlebug!
It’s been just under a year since I’ve posted…and while I hope to have more up soon to fill in the gaps, for now I would simply like to introduce […]
Yin & Yang Project Video
This summer, I was back at Hong Fook working on their first ever intergenerational project. After the popular success of 1000 Candles in 2015 we decided to host another art-oriented […]
I don’t tell students their art work is good unless it is.
It’s impossible to teach art without students, of every age, asking you if their work is good. The question isn’t unreasonable, but the range of meanings lurking behind it can […]
