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  • Totchos!

    When we first moved to Portland in 2009, we lived in Sellwood and spent maybe too much time at Oaks Bottom pub, definitely eating too many totchos. Jim Parker is the creator of totchos. It’s nice to put a name and a face to the man who may well have been a large part of…

  • Garfield the cat — and why nextdoor helps with ennui

    Nextdoor.com is a…. weird place. It’s full of racism, humor, inappropriate humor, angry people, people who should just mind their own business, happy people, funny people, people with too much time on their hands, just people, mostly white people, because they’ve pissed off most everyone else. Sometimes a post comes along that makes me glad…

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    Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

    Wow, love this book! This video is a nice review of the whole book. Lynda Barry is a comic artist, writer and professor at University of Wisconsin – Madison. https://youtube.com/watch?v=UoaC8_KuNK0 want, want, want this book! …and then also omg look/hear how awesome she is

  • Designercize

    How much do I love this website? I was looking at an article about 7 great design prompt sites and found it. You can choose difficulty level and it’ll even give you a 15 minute timer to complete the exercise. another fav it came up with after hitting reload a few times: Design: a single…

  • Rock N Roll Camp for Girls

    It’s time for Virtual Rock Camp again. There will be two sessions for girls 9-12 and two sessions for girls 12-17. Juniper is signed up for week one and two. Wanna join her? here’s the registration link. A couple years ago I got to teach bass lessons and was a band manager. Last summer I…

  • Great Learning tools for Black History Month (and beyond)

    The NudgeTurn your BLM support into action.For 1 month, this program will help you continue doing the work to be an ally to the Black community, all via text.Starts Sunday, 2/7! Anti-Racism DailyDaily actions to dismantle white supremacy.Get the daily anti-racism newsletter.Since June 3, the Anti-Racism Daily has been sending one email a day pairing current…

  • Sarah Sentilles and Alan Pesky at Sun Valley MOA

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  • How to Teach the US Capitol Attack

    https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-to-teach-the-u-s-capitol-attack-dozens-of-resources-to-get-you-started/2021/01 This is a couple weeks late but this article has several great resources for instructors. The article covers media literacy, classroom dialog, historical touchstones, and social-emotional learning.

  • Selected Works of Audra Lorde

    I want to get my hands on this book, but I’m swimming in books right now! So I’m putting it here so I don’t forget. Forward by Roxanne Gay, author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Woman, all have been recommended to me. SO many books! So little time!

  • Grading Tips for Teachers

    I can’t begin to describe how much I love this video. Video created by artist Lara Odell

  • Fools and Dreamers

    I’m working on a project that looks at both trauma and forests. I need to watch this documentary in it’s entirety, so I’m posting here!

  • Zap! When students attack

  • Death Turkey

    Oooh, good band name. We (Americans) must look like the biggest collection of fools on the planet. Just to get a chance to overeat together, we risk killing each other.

  • If I responded to that tweet about frustrations of teaching

    If I responded to your tweet about the frustrations of teaching students who don’t want to learn, I probably would have teased you and said something like: “my students just can’t get enough of my learnin’… must be you!” But then a couple months later, when I found myself at the end the my term,…