Over the past few months, I’ve written a total of ten posts that have pitted a novel against its movie version to try and determine which one I…
For our EdTech Inquiry project, Chris, Claire, Kolton and I discussed the possible effects of smartphones on adolescents and how they may have an effect on their learning….
This week in our EdTEch class we did another Ed Camp activity, this time using a software called Mural to put in our ideas and then vote on…
Dystopian novels have long been a favourite among bookworms the world over. Some of the sub-genre’s most celebrated works and some of my personal favourites include George Orwell’s…
Prolific author Elmore Leonard wrote nearly fifty novels, multiple short stories and a large handful of screenplays over more than fifty years of working as a published writer….
This week in the EdTech class, we had a guest speaker who is the founder of BCEDAccess Society, an organization that helps families who have children with disabilities…
Spy novels have been a fixture in the world of fiction for quite some time now, dating as far back as the early 19th century. However, it wasn’t…
For our class this week, we had a guest speaker who is a high school teacher here in Victoria. He encouraged us to think about our own experiences…
In 2004, Swedish journalist-turned-author Stieg Larsson died of a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty, about a full year before the release of his debut novel,…