Brenna Clarke Gray’s Blog
Among other things around my childhood home, I’ve been putting the garden to bed these last three days or so. I’m sure this job shouldn’t take three days, but let’s be clear here: I’m bad at it. Real bad. But my dad’s passing has meant taking on a bunch of Dad Jobs in the hope […]
This week at my day job, we restarted our popular open course on podcasting. (There’s still time to join, by the way, and you can register on our site.) In addition, I recently finally had the chance to listen “A Harem of Computers,” which is a new CBC Ideas radio documentary co-produced by a graduate […]
There’s not much I have supreme confidence in. I think of myself as basically competent but not expert in lots of areas and decent at my job really just because I am comfortable facilitating the transfer of knowledge about teaching and learning. So listen when I tell you: I am freaking great at lecturing. And […]
One. You need to laugh. People will say incongruously offensive things in their effort to be nice and you don’t have the emotional bandwidth to hold a grudge and you sure don’t have the energy for a zinger so just save it up, tell it to your people, and laugh. Everything you are experiencing is […]
Last week, before I found my way back to the land of the living, there was post on Times Higher Education about ungrading. Even in my shocked, grief-addled space, it found its way to me. Nothign like a tablespoon of rageful hate-reading to cut through the fog of mourning. Anyway. Ungrading is a way of […]
A few weeks ago, I pondered on Twitter the value of undertaking a wee experiment this #AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month, the month of November, a piggyback of the wildly popular #NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month): what if instead of undertaking my usual #AcWriMo project of moving one big project along, I committed instead to blogging […]