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Author Archives: Erin Thomas
Nature, Interconnection, and Other Ways of Knowing
A Happy Moment in Nature I remember as a child being in the canoe on Brerton Lake. The sound of the water quietly lapping against the canoe, the quiet dip dip of the paddle. My older brother would take me … Continue reading
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The Happiest Person I Know
Happiness Interview – Lisa Ducharme This interview was completed for the course “Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being” as part of the work toward my Master of Education, Sustainability, Creativity, and Innovation at Cape Breton University. Lisa is a grade 2 teacher. … Continue reading
Self-protection vs Branding
January 28-February 3 These blog posts are part of the content for my course in Digital Citizenship at Cape Breton University. Though the terms “personal branding” and “social media influencer” are recently coined, have we not always created a personal … Continue reading
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Being Thirteen
January 21-27 These blog posts are part of the content for my course in Digital Citizenship at Cape Breton University. This week we watched a CNN Special Report from 2015 called Being Thirteen: Inside the Secret World of Teens. This … Continue reading
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My Online Identity
January 14-20 These blog posts are part of the content for my course in Digital Citizenship at Cape Breton University. The discussions this week have had me wondering about my online identity. I protected it for many years, but things … Continue reading
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In Real Life…
January 7-13 These blog posts are part of the content for my course in Digital Citizenship at Cape Breton University. I am a teacher librarian in a K-5 school. This means I co-teach with every classroom teacher from grade 1 … Continue reading
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MaddAddam – A Review
MaddAddam, written by Margaret Atwood, is the final book in the trilogy of the same name. The previous books are Oryx and Crake, published in 2003 and The Year of the Flood, published in 2009. The story is set in … Continue reading
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The Promise of Language
Language, creativity, and poetry – Passages that resonate Can Poetry Save the Earth? First… “In America the Beautiful and elsewhere, carbon-sucking forests and their wildlife have been lost to logging, wildlands to drilling, prairie and grassland to overgrazing, wetland and … Continue reading
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A Close Reading of “Double Voice Single Vision: Ecopoetic Subjectivity and Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie” by Diana Relke
In Greenwor(l)ds, Diana Relke explores Canadian women’s poetry from an eco-critical perspective. While I specifically read the essay on Margaret Atwood, I read through the introduction and preface to the book to gather some insight into this exploration. Relke (1999) … Continue reading
A Living School in Manitoba
Living schools are predicated on a deep sense of meaningful contact with others and the larger living world that fundamentally carries our lives forward. In advocating a sense of reverence for life, education in a Living School offers a transformative … Continue reading
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