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Day 172 (of 2024/25) Are these neurologies common? Or rare…? Been doing some thinking about thinking and two neuro tendencies have come up… cuz the brain is wonderful making us think they all work the same for so long, when the reality is the more we study it, the less it lets us know… Aphantasia.…

Day 172 (of 2024/25) banned books & #tcaf panels pages and protests (oh my!) Getting ready for our comic con and after a trip to Toronto comic Arts Festival, I’m still thinking about banned books – and comics. It is easy to dismiss and challenge some because of the artwork – mind you the same…

Day 171 (of 2024/25) synthesizing some thinking about  focus groups thinking about AI… Preamble… Especially reflecting on how Steve Jobs and Henry Ford viewed focus groups… not fondly as so often people/groups want ‘more of what we had/have’ and need to be shown ‘different’. Good starting points for some airing of grievances, wishes, and hopes for…

Day 170 (of 2024/25) #tcaf education & libraries day… 

Day 169 (of 2024/25) I might be getting too old for some of this… A long while back I was asked to put forward a proposal to talk about how our school leveraged some connections via our comic book library and (now annual as we prep for #2) year-ending comic con (a better strategy for…

Day 169 (of 2024/25) thinking about comics… Reading Scott McClouds Reinventing Comics and saw this panel and made a quick connection… Earlier this week I passed on a limited edition superman comic to a superman fan but have since heard that they haven’t read it yet – they don’t want to take it out of…

Day 167 (of 2024/25) Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, #booktok share by @thierck and Jane Bluestein Happy to have read and be able to recommend the latest book by Tom Hierck and Jane Bluestein – a great dive into the elements that change the environment and climate of schools around the broad concepts of ‘safe schools’.…

Day 166 (of 2024/25) Grade 7 camps… and track meets… and graduations… traditions & attendance… Who should and should not attend, that is the question. Whether it’s nobler to acknowledge the attempt or believe that there’s a quest that needs to be solved and resolved first… Hmmm should things like this; https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMSNj2yVE/ lead to cancelling…

With Canada post possibly going on strike and end of year messages from/to schools a reminder of the subtleties of some scams… and why to never default to clicking on something that looks legit. Always check the email address – Amazon email is not Amazon.ci347b6g.ru or something weird or unexpected. Take the extra moment to…

Day 164 (of 2024/25) soft banning… Too many great authors that I am looking forward to seeing at TCAF are likely over aware of some of the “soft banning” that occurs all too regularly… strategies that start on focusing on “age appropriate books” (and while I’ll push boundaries… I also have guidelines I trust –…