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August | 2014 | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Cultural Appropriation, YouTube, and You. This week’s blog entry asks us to “share information from a scholarly reading that has helped you understand an issue related to popular culture.” While considering what to write about, and peering over items in my RSS feed over coffee this morning, I came across Taylor Swift’s new pop music video. Amy Zimmerman from The Daily Beast.
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Interview with a Young Person. The epitome of 2000s mobile technology. Source: Flickr Creative Commons (CC). Sam told me that she has always been a bit of a bookworm. She has read lots of series such as. The Mortal Instruments,. She read the first. Book but she’s seen all the movies and doesn’t really want to keep reading it. She has recently finished. The Lord of the Rings.
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It’s Okay to Switch Off: Embracing Low Tech | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. It’s Okay to Switch Off: Embracing Low Tech. Source: Flickr Creative Commons (CC). Yesterday I read a fascinating and surprising article by Nick Bilton in the Sydney Morning Herald surrounding the fact that Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs, and many other technology CEOs and venture capitalists are in fact ‘low tech’ parents. 8220;So, your kids must love the iPad? While...
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About | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Hi, I’m Robyn. Australian Drama and English teacher, currently living with my husband on the Canadian prairies. Reader, explorer, student, art lover and curious citizen of the world. This blog was originally created for assessment requirements for CRN600: Youth, Popular Culture and Texts, a masters unit delivered by Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
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October | 2014 | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Until We Meet Again! Well, my friends, it is time to part. CRN600 will be coming to an end tomorrow. I’m a little sad that my uni community will be disbanding, but goodness me, I have learnt a lot! In the spirit of all things ‘pop culture,’ I think it’s time all of us take a deep breath and… LET IT GOOOOOOO. How many memes in one? Than perhaps the average 14 year old does 😉.
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Sick-Lit, Banned Books Week & The Fault in Our Stars | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Sick-Lit, Banned Books Week and The Fault in Our Stars. In an age where most pearl-clutching conservative parents are terrified of what their children might come across online, its interesting that books can still generate controversy and calls for censorship. Indeed, this week September 21-27 is the annual celebration of Banned Books Week. Series) by Dav Pilkey. Stands out amo...
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The Power of Pinterest | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. The Power of Pinterest. And if you wish, you can view all of my boards. As of this moment, I have 21 boards and 1330 pins! As a married teacher in my late 20s, the vast majority of my pins are recipes, and images of fashion and home decor. Sometimes I pin craft projects (that I am 95% certain I will never get to! 70 million users, 80% of whom are women. Much like on Facebook, u...
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Dystopian Worlds | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. The latest on the war against ISIS, then, to cheer you up, the latest on Ebola.”. A quote from one of my favourite comedy reporters Stephen Colbert. The girls taken by Boko Harem still have not been brought home. Hong Kong is still protesting for democracy. And we are still searching for answers into the fate of both MH370 and MH17. I was a teenager in Year 9 when 9/11 occurred...
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A Moment of Connection | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. A Moment of Connection. Sometimes when completing university assignments its very easy to assume that hardly anyone is going to read them. So, imagine my surprise when I logged onto Twitter this afternoon, only to discover that Penguin Teachers have tweeted about my blog entry Sick Lit, Banned Books Week and The Fault in Our Stars. October 2, 2014. October 21, 2014 at 12:24 am.
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Until We Meet Again! | 27thandmaple
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Musings from an Australian Drama and English teacher living on the Canadian prairies. Online Education and Teaching Communities. Until We Meet Again! Well, my friends, it is time to part. CRN600 will be coming to an end tomorrow. I’m a little sad that my uni community will be disbanding, but goodness me, I have learnt a lot! In the spirit of all things ‘pop culture,’ I think it’s time all of us take a deep breath and… LET IT GOOOOOOO. How many memes in one? Than perhaps the average 14 year old does 😉.
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