classroom strategies
Normalising mistake-making in my classroom
Green Failure is a classroom philosophy built on normalising mistakes--because a student willing to fail is a student willing to grow.
Pixel Bloom
classroom strategies
Revitalising the 5 Ws in secondary English
When oral presentations terrify middle schoolers, here's how I used the I Do / We Do / You Do model and the 5 Ws to create a managable task.
class work
Experiental Bipolar Disorder and how teachers deal with highs and lows
Six weeks into my teaching career, and I mentioned to one of my colleagues that it genuinely feels as though I have some kind of bipolar disorder. Allow me to explain further, on a 'high' day.
teaching
Swings and Roundabouts: Life as a Graduate Teacher (atm)
The emotional rollercoaster of graduate teaching and a simple classroom strategy to help reluctant writers just start writing.
Star Trek
Online fan communities suck the fun out of Star Trek
Star Trek communities enjoy enforcing a law on canon and what's "correct," and fans are actively turning their backs on them.
art scams
Fanfiction Art Commission Scammers: Investigation
Techigate LLC, ArtistifyStudio, Pakistani scammers, and the massive web of fake accounts made to convince you to pay for "art".
fandom scams
Fanfiction Art Commission Scammers: Critique
In which critically evaluating the flaws in a single AI artpiece can lead to a headache.