Peter Newbury

Course instructors are terrible at this. Every one of us has had a Randall - you know, that guy in your class in, like, 2007 who made things miserable for you. But we *cannot* create dictatorial, inhumane syllabi that punish every student since and for all eternity 🤦‍♂️

I'd much rather have compassionate, humane, trauma-informed approaches that enable everyone - and especially the most vulnerable - to participate. Creating a ridonkulous set of rules and barriers so that fucking guy Randall down the hall doesn't cheat the system - yeah, I hate that!

Photo looking down onto the frozen Assiniboine River in Winnipeg. A snow-covered grassy island is surrounded by the frozen river. The surface is very rough, with blocks of ice that piled up as the surface froze over last week. Brrr!!!

I see your chilly *liquid* water and raise you chilly *frozen* water 🥶

#DataViz called a diverging stacked bar chart created by Stephanie Evergreen. The chart is titled "20% of respondents don't feel they can manipulate Excel effectively. Let's coordinate training." The chart shows the % of people who strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree to 3 statements. The percentages are shown in a bar next to each statement. Importantly, the line between agree and disagree is aligned for all 3 statements, quickly revealing the overall level of agreement and disagreement with the 3 statements.

We're running a student experiences survey where students rate their agreement on a 6-pt LIkert (no neutral). I'm so excited to #DataViz using Stephanie Evergreen's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart. Notice how the agree/disagree boundaries are aligned *chef's kiss*
stephanieevergreen.com/diverging-st...

24 years later and what do you remember? Sneaking around. Job search fucking sucks. You have to keep secrets from your friends and colleagues, the HR process is inhumane. A win for UBC, whatever the process, though. Congrats! 👏

Our new Bachelor's Degree includes a required Indigenous-focused course. I was expecting Chair would 🙄 and treat it as one-and-done. I was so pleased when he effortlessly spoke of the necessity of engineers working collaboratively and respectfully with peoples and cultures where projects occur.

I co-lead an Active Learning community of practice for faculty and academic staff. In next week’s meeting, “A Place for Play,” we’ll rumble whether play ⬆️ or ⬇️ learning, engagement, inclusion,….I’m excited and nervous about people’s conceptions of play: Is it teaching or baby-sitting?

Worked w an instructor on activities for exam review. We designed a worksheet where students re-create (retrieval!) a complex diagram, carefully tuned to learning outcomes.

Instructor balked at tricky PPT.

Is it in my scope to create the worksheet? Nope.

Is it worth me doing anyway? Absolutely

Winnipeg Goldeyes: Uh, what?!?

Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make It Better for Others, and Transform the University, with Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern – Teaching in Higher Ed Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern share about their book, Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University on episode 595 of the Teaching in Higher Ed ...

In today's @tihe.bsky.social, @bonni208.bsky.social discusses ways to reduce faculty workload, including stop asking colleagues to do things for you! I'm guilty of asking a lot from faculty participating in my SoTL project. Makes me extra grateful to have such enthusiastic and generous colleagues.

Sparkling green waves of northern lights above a busy city landscape at night. The Manitoba Legislature is lit up all orange with The Golden Boy shining at the top.

In CRED ible northern lights over Winnipeg right now! Here’s the view with a cellphone camera and all the city lights!

@grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social Does this ring any bells for you? #AskingForAFriend

Not often when you see the batter plonk the pitcher! #BlueJays #LFG

Open front door on the front porch. Glowing orange Halloween lights strung to one side. A white poster on the door has the box score from the Dodgers / #BlueJays game. Dodgers lead 3-1 after 8 innings.

Just your friendly neighbourhood scorekeeper for the trick ‘r treaters!

@wilnerness.bsky.social hey Mike, do you that guy behind home plate, doing some kind of semaphore? I can’t imagine who he’d be signaling.

I’ve got Vladdy, Springer, and Gaus in my play-off pool. LFG #BlueJays

If the #BlueJays win tonight, is this Buck’s last game? 😢😢😢

A dark room with a glowing orange jack-o-lantern carved to look like a baseball.

Well, I’m
* pretty predictable
* pretty pleased how this 🎃 ⚾️ turned out!

Let’s go, #BlueJays
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Big Turd

Do you keep them all? After what, 30 years, you must have a bookshelf full of ‘em!

Geez, Mike, you need a new score book instead of using those spotty wonky photocopies 😂

Hey, it's true for potato chips, cookies, and M&Ms. Same goes for bunny kibble, I guess!

Suffering today from ohtaniosis (“baseball fever”):

* fatigue
* hoarse voice
* sore high-five and fist-pump muscles
* low-grade malaise / anxiety

Treatment:
3 #BlueJays wins during next 6 days

This best-of-8 World Series is exciting!

Game 1: #BlueJays win 11-4
Game 2: Dodgers win 5-1
Game 3: Tie 5-5
Game 4: Dodgers win 1-0
Game 5:
Game 6:
Game 7: if necessary
Game 8: if necessary

Ohtani’s gonna pitch 18?!? #BlueJays

At this point, how could I give in!!?

Sorry, what?!?

I ❤️ 🍁
Oil + Gas

‘ck off

Damn, I wanted to see consecutive World Series pitches or at least at bats to be homeruns. Joe Carter walked-off the World Series for the #BlueJays in 1993. Was hoping for a lead-off Springer Dinger today. Oh well, we’ll save that for another AB.

One of the thrills of going to a baseball game is the culturally accepted practice (even in Canada!) of chucking your peanut shells on the ground under your seat You're allowed to make a mess! Hee hee!

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only