From Teacher to Programmer By Mélanie L. Sisley Published in EFL Magazine October 2019 Ever watch someone completely absorbed by a computer game? Ever wonder what it would take for you to get your students’ attention with that amount of intensity? Ok maybe computer-game-intensity is a little much, but wouldn’t it be nice to have
by Mélanie L. Sisley “Be safe instead of sexy.” In the 1990 movie Crazy People, Duddley Moor plays a bitter ad executive who lands in a mental institution after a breakdown. There he turns his bitterness into craftiness and starts a new trend in the advertising world: tell the truth. Moor’s “revolutionary” technique becomes a
by Mélanie L. Sisley “High impact learning” is a term I often hear in the organisational training literature and community. It ‘s a theme that conjures all kinds of thoughts and feelings for me. For instance, am I a high impact learner? What does low impact learning look like? What are the ingredients that make
By Mélanie L. Sisley, with special thanks to Karen Henchey, July 2018 “I feel happier” was only one of the many redeeming comments patrons of the West Island Women’s Center (WIWC) said about their experience. To see “happiness” emerge as one of the words that describe the center was like getting 100% plus bonus points in a chemistry exam. The
by Mélanie L. Sisley The competition for quality is fierce out there. But perhaps the very answer to quality is dependent on our sloppy, creatively unguarded side. Just imagine what could happen if we let the unfinished, unpolished ideas come out without fear of judgment or ridicule. Study shows the quality effect In his course
Let’s take a trip down memory lane… Think back to when you were in school. Think of a teacher that had the gift. They knew how to explain things in a way you could understand. They had stories, metaphors, a way of simplifying a concept, of making it relevant to your life. Whatever the technique,
Joâ Grenier is a highly talented Montreal based jewelry designer. She creates themed based jewelry for art exhibits and cultural sites. Some of her pieces can be found at the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, several museums in Paris via Culturespaces, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas (to name a
When we are children, we are encouraged to think of what we are going to be when we grow up. Of course it is expected that this changes, sometimes drastically, over time and education. We can be horse whisperers, firemen, painters…and this can be all the same person. But as we grow up, we have
For the sake of a little context, let me state the obvious, digital media is having a profound impact on how knowledge is created, shared, transformed and consumed. In the last 20 years, we have gone from being passive consumers of knowledge to active creators of meaning. Yes I know, not all of us are
