I just complete a project (this stage, anyway) so I got to close a browser with like 20 tabs of Miro boards, Word docs, Excel sheets, PPT presentations, PDFs, university websites. Feels. So. Good.

Back in my planetarium days, the highest compliment was when someone walked into the dome and exclaimed, “Holy shit!” Fast forward to today: This morning, a student walked into our active learning classroom for the first time and said, “Holy shit!” 🤩

@johnkane.bsky.social @cyberthread.bsky.social Tea for Teaching w Yaniv Abir about curiousity dropped at >perfect< moment! I host a Community of Practice about active learning. Our next mtg is about not wasting the curiosity students bring to class. A good question (w good answer) is one way!

Happy MLB #PostSeason to all those who celebrate! ⚾️

Got home late from work, no choice but take-out from the local burger joint. Now my whole house smells like fries and Dairi-Wip Fatboys. Terrible, terrible tragedy 😉

On my commute thru the downtown, my bus has 3 short blocks to cross 5 lanes from curb to left-turn lane. Tentative drivers ease left, relying on tiny gaps, generosity of drivers, and waves of thx out the window. Aggressive drivers crank the wheel, floor it, and you better get TF outta the way 😂

My institution has a paramedicine/EMT program. They meet in one of our active learnign classrooms so I just dropped by to see if a new instructor set up. Year 1 students dressed in crisp, clean jumpsuits and shiny boots. They look so proud walking around campus, as they should be 😊

@wilnerness.bsky.social I have a question, probably >not< worthy of the DLF mailbag: Where can I find the rockin' Take Me Out To The Ballgame you play at the beginning of the podcast?

1. Montréal 2. Steinbach - Growing up in Winnipeg, Steinbach was the town where all the Mennonites lived and sold cars? “Steinbach,The Automobile City”

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Questions for all my 🇨🇦 followers: 1. What’s the largest city in Canada that you have yet to visit? 2. What’s the largest city or town in your home province or territory that you haven’t visited yet?

My neighbour said, rather disparigingly, that our street can be a thoroughfare for *some people* between the Seine and Red Rivers. (Unhoused folks often find refuge living in greenspaces along the banks.) Hmm, I thought, like people have been doing for 10,000 years when they *portage la prairie*?

Echoes from a century ago when downtown Winnipeg was the center of industry. The Can•D•Man reminds us Nutty Club can fulfill all our candy, nuts, peanut butter, and pancake syrup needs! Manitoba Historical Society has all the deets! www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/s...

@anthonyfloyd.ca You're always pretty up on Vancouver civics and planning. Heard anything about Major League Baseball coming to town?

Mike Wilner@wilnerness.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is terrific news. I don't see #MLB giving Vancouver much of a chance, but would love for this to happen. Anyone in Van know about plans for a new stadium? Can't imagine BC Place (or the Nat) is viable.

Philanthropists halt donations to museum bc they object to an exhibit? Selfish, intolerant but 🤷‍♂️ it’s their💰. What pisses me off is how easily they get media coverage proclaiming their perspective. And Winnipeg’s elite w “Nothing about us without us” posters? 🤬 More like “Everything about us now!”

Sunday morning brain buster. 12 cinnamon buns. 2 people eat 1-1/2 buns each for breakfast. How many days will it last? Shades of “a train leaves Chicago…” 😂

Watching them finish the outside of this building and thinking, if that cherry picker had some smarts, I bet the worker could toggle left right up down and the bucket would move parallel to the wall. Prolly just need distance and angle between base vehicle and wall? Oh, and bucket/wall gap.

Can't wait to catch The Odyssey this weekend.

Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can’t wait to catch The Odyssey this weekend.

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought David Picture Hook (Pitcherhook? Terrible name for a pitcher!)

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 4mo ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Wasn’t it Andy Pages who bowled over Kiki and stole the World Series winning hit from Ernie Clement? Ernie’s all-star play to get Pages out at first must feel just a little extra good for Ern-dog! Woof! #BlueJays

Interesting comment from @wilnerness.bsky.social following #BlueJays near no-hitter. Broadcasters didn't say "no hitter" because tradition, jinx, legit fear of online vitriol. But paying viewers and listeners deserve to know something special is happening. I'm with Mike: tell us it's a no-hitter.

Last week, I moved to St. Boniface, the French neighbourhood of Winnipeg. It’s the oldest part of the city, full of clues about French Catholic settlement and Riel Rebellion. I’m enjoying the bilingual signs, like this one: la Promenade Taché / the Taché Promenade 😂

@bkives.bsky.social Can you remind me where to find the river level in feet James? I cross the railbridge over the Assiniboine every day and this morning, there's a noticable rise in the water level. Islands around bridge piers disappered overnight!

I’m grateful I don’t have to work evenings and weekends but today, I’ll join #ScholarSunday to honour my friend, Raul Pacheco Vega. In “Getting Under the Hood” (2014), Sarah Eddy and @kellyhogan.bsky.social show the connection between active learning and inclusive teaching. One of my fav papers.

Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work? | CBE—Life Sciences Education

The authors explore the transferability of an active-learning intervention and expand upon the original studies by 1) disaggregating student populations to identify for whom the intervention works bes...

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@joannelevasseur.bsky.social thx for the follow! In this age of 24/7 AI slop, I’m happy to be connected with real and local journalists 😁

What a terrible loss 😢 I’m so grateful to have known Raul at UBC when he built online and in-person community as hummingbird604. He did social media right, when that was possible. Raul was a connector, using his network to bring people together. Once his friend, you were always his friend.

harmodio@harmodio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

Kiddo’s graduating from University of Manitoba today. All the #ProudDad feelz 🥲🥲🥲

So I’m watching Berlin on Netflix, the latest in the Money Heist series. Here’s the weird part: with language = English, the actors’ lips match the English. And in original Spanish, their lips match Spanish. They’re not shoot the scenes twice - I think AI is rendering the actors’ lips! 🤮

The boys of Summer are back in town 😁 So are the Jumbo Diamond Dogs, fries, and Angry Fish pilsner! Close game so far between Winnipeg Goldeyes and the Milwaukee Milkmen

@roberttalbert.bsky.social I’m watching the Blue Jays - Tigers ⚾️ game on TV and noticed Grand Valley State University bldg beyond center field. Have you been working across the street from a ball field all this time and I’m just finding out?!?

My wife is unexpectedly out for dinner. Oh dear, what shall I do? Must I BBQ hotdogs, for the second time this week ?!? Yes, I must, I must!

Batters do the new ABS tap tap to turn strikes into balls. Catchers and pitchers tap tap to turn balls into strikes. Is there a situation where a batter would want to turn a ball into a strike? (“Do not walk me!”) What about a catcher turning a strike into a ball? (Why not just IBB?)