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Speaking with the “Other” & role playing microaggression

Today in my digital literacies and intercultural learning class, we did the following exercise: Watched then discussed this vi

Unofficial Teaching Philosophy

I need to write my teaching philosophy for an official document for work, and I’m having difficulty getting it written d

Join me in Reviving Twitter Scavenger Hunt for Intercultural Learning Class

I’ve been doing Twitter Scavenger Hunts on and off for several years now in my educational game design module. Now that

There’s Something about Undergrads

“You’re so chill” said a student at the end of a conversation she struck up with me yesterday. And I was thi

The Charitable Gaze

I gave a workshop on critical pedagogy earlier this week… And you know it was a good workshop when the dialogue results

On Heads and Dancing: Adventures in Arabic Diglossia

If you know Arabic, this should be immediately funny.  If you don’t, I’ll explain in a second. Just remember that

On the Arabic Curriculum in Egypt

I’m kind of obsessed with how horrible the Arabic Language curriculum is in Egypt. For the early years especially. IR

Home, Belonging and #DigPed (part 2 of my reflections) 

It was caught off-guard when my almost 6-year-old said Fredericksburg the other day. I didn’t realize while we were ther

Reflections on #DigPed – Part 1: Hybridity

I’m still recovering from the emotionally overwhelming experience that was my US trip this year, which ended with one of

The Risks of CC-BY and Republication 

Here comes another blogpost where I expect people from the open ed community to either think I am crazy or I am backwards or s