How would you go about trying to get your students anyone to understand twitter if you only have an hour to do it? (There is a good “why” for the rush*, but i won’t go into it now). Please help me improve my ideas below What has not worked at all In the past, I’ve…
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10 Reasons You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not African (Enough)
I recently got a comment from another academic questioning my Africanness after she read my poem I’m Not Angry at You, which people were tweeting quotes from as part of the Equity Unbound Twitter Scavenger Hunt (happening this week until Monday morning). I’m actually not sure why the poem triggered a questioning of my Africanness…
Read MoreUnofficial Teaching Philosophy
I need to write my teaching philosophy for an official document for work, and I’m having difficulty getting it written down. For several reasons My teaching philosophy is a living thing. It evolves with my thinking and my practice. I believe something in theory, I try it, I revise my beliefs. Or… Something happens, it…
Read MoreWikipedia editing workshop reflections
Last week, I invited local Egyptian Wikipedia folks (Wikimedians?) to give my students a workshop on Wikipedia editing. Before the workshop happened, I asked around on Twitter about resources and such, and I’m including most of what I found near the bottom of this post. My plan It is pretty vague 🙂 Two volunteers from…
Read MoreOn Attribution vs Privilege of CC0
Let me share with you this true story of my Sudanese friend. One I share with students when I teach about copyright and plagiarism (and how to differentiate them). She was educated in the UK, but now lives in Sudan and has kids. She noticed her nieces/nephews science books were really bad so she created…
Read MoreWhole-class Augmented Reality Game a la Pokémon Go?
I have been following articles about Pokemon Go and thought it might be interesting to have my students next semester read up on Augmented reality games and find positive and critical articles (some are so critical I am scared of trying it myself) about Pokemon GO specifically (by October there will probably be too many!)…
Read MoreConsidering Teaching with SOLE Approach
It just so happened that three entirely different people mentioned SOLEs to me within a short 2-month period. They are Sean Michael Morris, Jonathan Worth, and an educator here in Egypt. SOLEs are Self-Organized Learning Environments (check out this toolkit) and it occurred to me that this approach (I’ll explain in a second) really fits…
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