Colin Madland 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦 Profile picture
smoker of meat | rider of bikes | #GO_GN | #OTESSA | Settler PhD Candidate in #EdTech | #ATAssessment | #CritDigPed | profile by @BryanMMathers views=mine
Sep 19, 2020 16 tweets 7 min read
A faculty member has been asking how to stop Zoom from removing his head when he uses a virtual background. We suggested the usual plain background, good lighting etc, but it didn't work. I was in a meeting with him today when I realized why it was happening. any guesses? screenshot of a zoom meetin...
Sep 5, 2020 5 tweets 5 min read
#bced #bcpoli @jjhorgan @bctf @Rob_Fleming @RichmondSD38 @Hamiltonsd38 please read this thread and subthreads. Or even just the first. Schools can only reopen safely if community transmission is very low. @_valeriei @jodyvance Also from @DrBonnieHenry’s deck...the vast majority of cases in BC are in folks under age 60. Few in the youngest, but teachers are in this too, many between 20-40yo. Seems they are being asked to risk most. Image
Jul 30, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
I didn’t share my calabrese salami. Image I was going to get all defensive with some of the shade being sent my way, but no...here's why.
May 28, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read
I’ve been shaving my head for several years, knowing that genetics and time are causing my hair to leave me for a younger man. I do not feel that I should try to fight this process or worry about it in the least. For the last several weeks of socially distant work and play, I have decided that this would be an ideal time to see how things have actually changed up there.
Apr 20, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Hey @popovleather thanks for the #DIY cardholder! DIY kit for a leather wallet. @popovleather
Mar 31, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Hopefully providing this blanket will help convince my co-worker that it is not ok to walk all over my desk and sit on my computer. Image Operation distracting Co-Worker has been a roaring success! Image
Sep 30, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Hey fellow non-Indigenous people. #OrangeShirtDay is really hard for a lot of Indigenous folks. We need to start educating ourselves and those around us. One place to start is the recommendations of the TRC...your should read it. nctr.ca/assets/reports… You can also subscribe to a boatload of great podcasts like cbc.ca/radio/findingc… cbc.ca/radio/podcasts… recodingrelations.org #InternationalPodcastDay
Jun 5, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Hey fellow colourless, non-indigenous men! We have work to do. Being an ally means doing the invisible work of #reconciliation and #inclusion. insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/0… @EdtechUVic To be clear, the work we have isn't the 'take over and impose our colonial patriarchal viewpoints and tell Indigenous People how to live' kind of work. Nor is it asking Indigenous People to share their stories. It IS...