The title, “Hope,” was suggested by Vezina Secondary school student Tyson Sutherland, who was already writing on that theme. The other students approved, and they worked in small groups on contributing lines and stanzas. Photos of their first drafts appear Read more…
Author: Richard (Admin)
As a teenager, Richard studied music with Trevor Payne at John Abbott College and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has performed across Canada with full-time rock bands, and/or recorded original music, since the early 80s. icon, link to soundcloud
Richard's been a teacher of rock, jazz & classical guitar, first, at 18, as a sub for his own private teacher, later formally at the now defunct Toronto Percussion Centre. He taught at The Arts Music Store in Newmarket, Ontario, for 6 years. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Fine Arts Music (Special Honours), Bachelor of Education, and Master of Education from York University, plays guitar and trombone, and taught grade 6-8 band, math and computers (HTML and yes, Hypercard!) at the Toronto District School Board and North York School Board.
Richard's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience stems from a stint as webmaster for the Faculty of Education at York. Richard thoroughly understands and embraces the fact he’s a “Webmaster/PluginMonkey”, indeed he's long been fond of saying he learned web design the same way he learned guitar, by stealing other people's licks. Richard currently produces eLearning for the Government of Ontario, using Adobe Captivate, HTML5 and video. Opinions expressed here are his own.
Singing For Life in Attawapiskat – Part 1
Intuitions and institutions Our week in Attawapiskat has come to an end. We saw some walls come tumbling down and we made some strong connections. We reaffirmed our belief in the healing power of music. And we see more clearly Read more…
A musical intervention
For me, the first step in creating a unit of practice is to brainstorm, and no tool suits that process better than a mind map. For this project I’m using XMind. You may have noticed Attawapiskat is miles north of Read more…
Can Singing For Love contribute meaningfully to ending the Attawapiskat suicide crisis?
This post first appeared at SingingForLove.ca. Attawapiskat First Nation is a northern indigenous community beset by poverty, lack of support and resources, and a suicide crisis that still hasn’t been adequately addressed. Singing For Love has joined forces with Read more…
Film making as digital storytelling
Are aspiring filmmakers nearly as ubiquitous as the cellphone cameras they may be using to get their start? I’ve seen some evidence there are a lot of them, and it’s certainly arguable that multimedia communication is a literacy, maybe an Read more…
Case Method — classroom catalysts, from story to discourse and back again
Originally posted on August 31, 2015 Dis′ • course 1. spoken or written language, including literary works; the four traditionally classified modes of discourse are description, exposition, narration, and persuasion. 2. a form of discourse analysis, focusing on power relationships Read more…
LearnPress LMS to Drive SingingForLove.Net learning exchange
Art and Empathy Development The Catalyst Conversation put to song The idea of conversations as catalysts for deep learning are standard Socratic method. What can the 21st century add by way of motivation and engagement?