Image source: Bigstockphoto.com As the year 2021 wraps up, the Blog Admin Team want to wish everyone a restful holiday and the very best for the new year! We hope you enjoy our look back at some of our favourite blog posts from 2021. Happy Holidays! Beth, Jessica, Claire, Elyse, Sarah, & Gordon Enhancing Reading Comprehension II: Structured Experience Techniques In this post Gonul offers some great ideas on how to get the most out of text readings in the classroom. Pre-reading activities and discussions are valuable ways to help students make sense of what they’re reading, grasp the core message of the text, and more easily draw on the information presented. The great...
John Wayne The SearcherIn 1965, nearly forty years before the publication of Where I Was From, her most recent and most sustained meditation on her native state of California, Joan Didion wrote “John Wayne: A Love Song.” By Hilton Als JUNE 24, 2004 In 1965, nearly forty years before the publication of Where I Was From, her most recent and most sustained meditation on her native state of California, the novelist and essayist Joan Didion wrote “John Wayne: A Love Song.” In the essay, Didion describes a trip she made to Estudio Churubusco, outside Mexico City. There a film was being shot–The Sons of Katie Elder, a western starring Dean Martin and John Wayne. For years before visiting the set, Wayne had...
It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season. The traffic is honking. The parking lots are jammed. The lines are long. The bank account is dwindling. And our children are feeling all of this, too. There are many ways we can push through the stress with our children and help them tap into the true meaning of the season, however that resonates with you and your family. Here are several easy ways to help let go of the holiday stress and put a smile on someone’s face that may really need it this time of year. Breathe in the good stuff, breathe out the bad stuff calming breaths: Bear Breaths, or 3-Part Breath: Inhale slowly to the count of...
All things considered, you probably aren’t in the mood to watch a television show about a pandemic. And I won’t lie to you: after two long years of Covid-19, with all of its attendant despair, illness, death, despair, disruption, ambient stress, and despair—and particularly this very month, as a new, more contagious variant builds steam and that light we all thought we glimpsed at the end of the tunnel begins to dim, the first episode of Station Eleven is a tough watch. But you should watch it anyway. Even if the last thing you want to do right now is consume even more pandemic-related media. Because contrary to the publicity talking points, this isn’t really a television show about a...
How does a video game from another region make it into your hands, and how do companies ensure you’re getting an experience that lives up to the original? As the gaming industry becomes more globalized, video game localization is an increasingly pertinent topic. But few people actually understand what goes into the process. Preparing to release a game in a new country or region comes with many challenges that go well beyond simple translation. When a game is localized well, it’s free of typos and grammatical errors, the dialogue is natural, and the instructions make sense. But even this is skimming the surface of the localization team’s role in the process. As games become more complex and text-heavy, not only...
