Christina Hendricks @chendricks@scholar.social
Professor of Teaching in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. Interested in open education, equity & inclusion, accessibility, as well as philosophy. She/her/hers.
Joined Jun 2017
@lauraritchie Thanks! It’s not quite done though; this is internal review and then we finish for the final submission in a couple of weeks. Getting there!
Flashback to student days trying to finish something late at night—yesterday learned (or had forgotten) that a grant proposal was due to an internal reviewer the next day (today). Remembered how difficult writing is after a very long day and week and trying to stay awake. Fortunately there’s a great group working on this and we all chipped in!
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I wonder how many educators are on here.
There were thriving communities of educators on Tumblr and Twitter, but Tumblr's went to heck after moderated hashtags went away and Twitter is ... Twitter.
The fediverse has Scholar.social, but that's more of an instance for college/university level academics. I'd like to connect with other K-12 educators.
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Before you put a dozen emojies between words, imagine how hearing the below text could become tiring, even exhausting, and a cognitive drain on screen reader users.
You Clapping hands are Clapping hands causing Clapping hands me Clapping hands to Clapping hands become Clapping hands tired.
We got a second cat mat for the cats to sit on next to the window so they wouldn’t have to fight over the single one we had before. But now they both love the second one and are squished together on it! #cats
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New blog post: I wish the #fediverse had ‘circles’.
https://rusingh.com/2021/08/30/fediverse-google-plus-circles/
#GooglePlus #twitter #google #mastodon #ActivityPub #moa #100DaysToOffload
@mackiwg I didn’t know either until my partner found it a couple of years ago; he and our son went camping there then and now we all went this time (just for a day hike though). It’s a beautiful place! Apparently we got lucky with the weather bc when they went before there was a lot of cloud hiding the mountains.
@charlag I feel incredibly lucky that we are able to live so close to such beauty! We should get out there into it more often.
Scenes from a day hike yesterday to Elfin Lakes, BC, Canada. 2 hour drive from Vancouver (approximately) then 3 hour walk there, then lunch, then back. Long day, but gorgeous!
spider
Watching a spider build a web right outside our front door—it’s a fascinating and mesmerizing process! Tried to take a photo but my phone camera can’t do it justice. Main concern now is people going in and out of the door ruining all the work the little spider is doing right now!
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bitter ramblings
Pretty selfishly angry of me, but... You know? Someone should make a completely audio-based OS. Then when some sightling comes around asking for visuals because they're a graphic designer who loves your OS, just say "well you put it in because its for your needs and depends entirely on you. I mean, be the change you want the see in the world you user." I shouldn't keep thinking like this but my goodness it feels good after a long hard mentally and emotionally draining day at work.
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@Argus @ljwrites
I heard an example about this using stairs that really stuck with me.
There’s no physical reason we don’t build stairs such that each step is 1 meter high. That would still count as stairs, and you could climb them and get to buildings if you were athletic enough. They would just be less useful to most people.
The built environment is just that, built. It’s not that disabled people are “disabled” inherently, but that the environment around them wasn’t built to be useful for them the way that most stairs are built of such a height that ambulatory people find them useful.
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People tend to think a disability means not being able to see, hear, walk etc., and sure, physical or mental conditions are disabling in some or many situations. And you know what? We can CHANGE situations.
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It may bring #accessibility issues into clearer focus if we call "inaccessible" what it really is: Disabling.
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TRC Report Online update: added Appendices 2.1 & 2.2. These list all the residential schools in Canada and when they were operating. https://nevillepark.github.io/trc/appendix-2/
Thanks to @Skirmisher for helping me with the for loop for converting the columns!
Wow, just learned that @nev has been putting the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation report executive summary into a searchable and more readable format on multiple devices. Great work! https://nevillepark.github.io/trc/#table-of-contents
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Dear #fediverse
The delightful #openscience curated list has been hugely expanded with many great resources.
Open science, #foss and #opendata are flourishing. And it is much needed too. Browse the list and suggest your own resources, either by creating an issue or sending a PR.
https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science
Many thanks to @VictorVenema for the help in compiling the list.
Wanna start your own #delightful list? Read how to join our project: https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful
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anyone out there working on variations of copyleft-ish licenses that include provisions for machine learning models trained on the content in question? (i'd personally like to have, e.g., MIT and CC-BY licenses that include a clause like "any model trained on this must also include the attribution")
@GwenfarsGarden Thank you so much! These are really gorgeous, and I had no idea what they were (guessed daisy of a type but wasn't sure).
Professor of Teaching in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. Interested in open education, equity & inclusion, accessibility, as well as philosophy. She/her/hers.
Joined Jun 2017
