Christina Hendricks @chendricks@scholar.social

Actually, this is more like a virtual social hour fail. After a virtual wine/book club meeting I dropped my laptop on the floor with the headphones still stuck in it, and the headphone jack broke off inside the little plug in the laptop.

Fortunately we had very tiny pliers and could pull it out. Even more fortunately I have a spare set of headphones and the connection into the laptop still works. Because there's no going to the computer store for repairs right now.

@ephemeral Oh my goodness...I hadn't logged on here in awhile and I missed this message. Thank you so much for letting me know the book is useful!

In the midst of everything else, there’s this in my neck of the woods.

@bstacey It depends on what you mean by spring. I was there in March one year and it was still very cold & snowy! Visited in summer and it was lovely. Wish I knew more about it being like the Austin of Canadian Texas (I did grad school in Austin!) but I’m not sure. U Calgary has an amazing teaching & learning centre, though!

Excited that Kristie Dotson will be doing a keynote at the American Association of #Philosophy Teachers conference this summer! Note that CFP deadline is Feb. 17. https://philosophyteachers.org/cfp-keynote/

@clintlalonde That really is awful. So far my son doesn't feel that pressure, but he's in grade 7 and I expect it's likely to come later. High school is next year...

The Philosophy department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (where I work) is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor without Review (non-tenure track position) in Ethics: https://philosophy.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/assistant-professor-without-review-ethics/ #UBC #philosophy

Great story about a colleague's project to create interactive, browser-based activities to go along with an #OpenTextbook in logic: https://bccampus.ca/2020/02/06/homework-activities-a-logical-extension-of-forall-x-using-carnap/ I can't wait to see the results of this project by Dave Gilbert at #UBC #Philosophy! #OER

Pressbooks can now make clones of open books and copy over H5P activities, as @clintlalonde discusses in this post. Nice! https://edtechfactotum.com/pressbooks-cloning-now-with-added-h5p-goodness/ #OER #OpenTextbooks

@clintlalonde I can see how this might happen, though it’s still too bad. At some ages grades just are what school is about, and your future depends on them. Hard to get past that I’d imagine. Though myself, I completely agree with you. I’d be so thrilled to not give grades but genuine feedback on progress that doesn’t have to be quantified.

Bryan van Norden has an amazing and growing list of suggested readings on what he calls the “less commonly taught philosophies” (at least in N America), including African, Asian, Continental, and more. Great places to get started to diversify readings in #philosophy courses! http://www.bryanvannorden.com/suggestions-for-further-reading

Very intriguing post by Martin Lenz on the important details of why asking students to learn how to ask philosophical questions (in addition to answering) is valuable. Via Daily Nous. #philosophy https://handlingideas.blog/2020/01/31/questions-an-underrated-genre/

#opusdailypractice from yesterday: Trick.

@rusty @Holly @foureyedsoul Wonderful! From one OER and open access practitioner to another! 🔓