James Kruck, PhD

Cover of Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality by Dr Tolulope Noah

Delivery took awhile, but I'm excited that @drtolunoah.bsky.social's new book has arrived, just in time for a flight. Looking forward to digging in

💣📢 Ojo al impresionante momento vivido hace unas horas en Roma: el descubrimiento en la Vía Apia de una tumba altoimperial intacta, todavía con su decoración musivaria, losas de mármol, huecos para libaciones y una inscripción funeraria griega.
¡Vamos a disfrutarlo! 🧵👇
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This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years A grand recreation of the Pantheon as it stood almost 2,000 years ago has racked up 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas.

This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years
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National Letter Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...

Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share
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And now I'm wondering:
* How are others incorporating these dimensions into their learning design?
* Have you found ways to address the "spiritual" domain in your educational work?

If you’re curious, I turned my lesson into a self-paced experience
jameskruck.github.io/memorygarden...

I responded to the challenge by designing a memory garden lesson that connects learners to the past through my educational and personal experiences. This experience was valuable, as it showed me how learning improves by fostering community in the classroom.

If you’re not familiar (I was not), LaFever's work explores how traditional educational frameworks (focusing on cognitive, physical, and emotional domains) might be expanded to include spiritual dimensions of learning. The spiritual dimension can help students find meaning, purpose, and connection.

Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel: creating learning outcomes that support Indigenous ways of knowing in post-secondary education Based on a review of works by Indigenous educators, this paper suggests a four-domain framework for developing course outcome statements that will serve all students, with a focus on better support...

I recently published "Memory Garden: Intergenerational Connection," an interactive lesson on designing spaces that connect us to the past.

This project came from a workshop where I found LaFever's article, "Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel." doi.org/10.1080/1467...

#LearningDesign

Q5: we’d need systems (helped by AI?) that could learn about our learners and serve them the right course. So we’d need to know a lot about our learners. And if the learners were to choose their own paths, they’d need some domain knowledge to make these choices. #LearnChat

Q2: the great thing about skills is that you can (usually) put them into use. For me, this can mean just building courses with new techniques or new technology or new frameworks. Of course, it can also mean just making stuff. Basically, I keep track by putting the skills to use.

Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel: creating learning outcomes that support Indigenous ways of knowing in post-secondary education Based on a review of works by Indigenous educators, this paper suggests a four-domain framework for developing course outcome statements that will serve all students, with a focus on better support...

Happily! It was introduced to me as a way to introduce spiritual, cultural, and connectedness into our learning. Here's a great paper: doi.org/10.1080/1467...

Hi #LearnChat! I'm James from London, Ontario. This week I've been learning about Indigenous ways of knowing

Developing an Accessibility Statement This resource helps you create an accessibility statement for your own website, mobile application, or other digital content.

An accessibility statement lets your users know you're committed to web accessibility. These statements usually include the accessibility standard applied, such as WCAG 2.1 AA. They also include contact information in case users encounter problems.

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Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge gives us a countdown of five notable female figures from the ancient world.

Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome | British Museum
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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - Wikipedia

I was cleaning out my Chrome bookmarks (yeesh!) and I came across a pretty cool page I'd forgotten about. The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum collects Latin inscriptions; some of which you can view on Wikipedia (some are a tad explicit, but that's showbiz): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_...

Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual Linked to the Cult of Dionysus Discovered at Pompeii A massive bacchanalian frieze spanning three walls has been discovered in a banquet hall.

Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual Discovered at Pompeii
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Interesting finding! I tend to use Claude for creative work more than I do ChatGPT - though I haven't tried out 4.5 yet.

A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again

See Ethan's substack page on this topic for more information: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-new-gene... (7/7)

There's room for improvements in both artifacts, of course, but I was excited to see what it could come up with with just minimal prompting. Being able to share the output as an artifact (rather than trying to host a page with the interactivity) is also very handy. (6/7)

The client expects the consultant to implement a comprehensive safety system designed to minimize incidents and accidents throughout the project lifecycle. (5/7)

In this scenario, the user takes on the role of a forklift safety consultant hired for a major project. Their task is to identify all potential hazards associated with the work, including risks related to processes, environment, personnel, equipment, and materials. (4/7)

Claude Artifact Try out Artifacts created by Claude users

Pulling from something else I'm fairly familiar with, I prompted Claude with building out an interactive scenario where the user is a forklift expert (claude.site/artifacts/45...). (3/7)

Interestingly, it extrapolated the themes from my paper and came up with the way you can toggle between a view of the poem as satire or as horror. (2/7)

Claude Artifact Try out Artifacts created by Claude users

@emollick.bsky.social recent post on Claude's coding capability had me curious, so I created a couple of artifacts with it to see what it could do. In this first example (claude.site/artifacts/7e...), I asked it to create an interactive exploration of a poem of Horace I did a paper on. (1/7)

York University recently announced that admissions to the Classics and Classical Studies programs have been suspended for Fall 2025. Classical Studies colleagues and students at York would be grateful for letters of support.

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Day five of the Valentine’s inspired ‘songs reimagined as old romance comics’ series. This time Joy Division.

I haven't watched the last episode yet, but I consistently impressed by this show.

Hardcopy version of John Warner's "more than words" book.

New book day! @biblioracle.bsky.social

Ha ha ha. Duo has been very disappointed with me lately

A5) I like when Duo the Owl is happy when I complete a duolingo lesson, but it doesn't exactly motivate me #LearnChat