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Well, things continue to change here. If anyone still reads this you may be interested to know that I am now teaching in Lytton. In other news, I”m going to be trying out Twitter again.
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Arthurian Omen by G.G. Vandagriff My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Arthurian Omen, by G.G. Vandagriff deals with the intense passion that arises when the location of a long lost manuscript is uncovered. The story is starts out being riveting and it makes you want to find out more, and then when you do, […]
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As you know I sent an e-mail to Nina Grewal (my M.P.) a few weeks ago in regards to the “case” against Ezra Levant before the Alberta Human Rights Commission (you can read my reaction to it here). A similar case is currently proceeding against Mark Steyn. A few weeks later I sent a follow up […]
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I originally posted this on a Ning site that we use for classroom discussions in my Educational Psych class. Today there was an interesting discussion in the English/social studies prep room at my school. Someone brought up how grades were posted, and that most teachers posted them by student number (essentially alphabetically). One teacher though posted […]
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Why do we give students grades? Wait, no, that’s not it. I understand why we give students grades, what I don’t understand is why we use the traditional A through F system. It seems to discourage cooperation, and provide yet another thing for students to make fun of each other over. I believe that we […]
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In regards to my previous post. I am so frustrated I just sent an e-mail to my MP Nina Grewal. You can read the text below. Greetings; My name is Noah Arney. I love this country. I am proud to have become a Canadian. I am proud to live in this great land. I am […]
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 2(b) “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: … freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” I love this country. Here we have the Charter which says that this is a free country, and we have places like the Human Rights […]
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There are currently some very cool technologies out there. When I was young we had a computer without a hard drive. You put the OS disk in one drive (the big floppy disks) and the program disk in the other drive. The only way you had a colour screen was if it was green and […]