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1/ City Council members spent Monday questioning @ChiPubSchools’ re-opening plan. Let’s get into it (and other public meetings #CHIdocumenters are covering this week)! 🧵

2/ @ChiCouncil Committee on Education & Child Development hearing on CPS' calculation that benefits of in-person classes for PreK + special ed students outweigh #COVID19 risk / Mon, Jan 11, 9:30am 🐤 @MegannHorstead 📝 @PortalatinA
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3/ @IDPH’s Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans (IMMT) met to finalize its 2020 report to the Illinois General Assembly / Mon, Jan 11, 1pm 🐤 @hd_documenter 📝 Amira Olinguo https://t.co/KyhU67FBin

4/ @cta’s #ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Advisory Committee discussed elevator/escalator repairs, signage and website accessibility / Mon, Jan 11, 1:30pm 🐤 @marycateryan 📝 @Jennife92877737 https://t.co/umQc25xmYw

5/ At @cta’s Committee on Finance, Audit & Budget + board meeting they’ll likely approve contracts to obtain greener fuel (biodiesel and ethanol gasoline) for non-revenue vehicles / Wed, Jan 13, 9:30am 🐤 @MikeTish4 📝 Parker Valentine
1/n How come we still have academics sustaining narratives of #obesity rather than of how real people find value & meaning in everyday lives? Revisit @whatsthepont on @tobyjlowe / @snowded & accept criticising "neoliberal" does not make things

New out 🤯 A review which says lots about the academic context in which it was written - with its embedded behaviorist fixations on just implementing *better* - with complete disregard for the unintended consequences of treating "agency" as a dirty word

In all #becausehuman fields, we see justifiable professional kick-back at reductionist agendas driven by a focus on #obesity & nonsensical CMO guidance of 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day for healthy growth and development


What's fundamentally missing is not just a respect for complexity. It's respect for Homo-Narrans - for the ordinary, everyday story-telling folk all around us whose aspirations & dispositions provide the context in which we find meaning, purpose & value

We don't need spurious arguments against initiatives... but let's consider ethics & unintended consequences - on which, see @snowded (especially around epistemic justice) #becausehuman
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metismuseum.ca- New breed Magazine Winter 2006- Harry Daniels - order of Gabriel Dumont Gold- in the early 1980's as the president of NCC - He was the person responsible for putting Metis into the repatriated constitution. @Occamsfork @simon_gabe @ArnallLabrador @CrownIndigenous


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Letter from Harry Daniels to Kirby Lethbridge of the Labrador Metis Nation. - explaining who he considered Metis constituents of the Native Council of Canada when Metis were inserted into the 1982 Constitution.


Metis social-political movement-by Lusty, Terry,1973- publisher- Calgary Metis Historical Society-Metis Associations- UNSI. - Union of Nova Scotia Indians


Volume 17 Issue 2 February - March 1975- Indian News - Native Women confront UNSI Board - Mr. Denny suggested that the Metis and Non-Status Indians set up their own organization.
A Thread: Here’s some phonics for #homeschooling. Check out resources that your teachers have first & take a peek at phonics videos online. We're not phonics experts, this is just a bit of fun. Each sound has a little activity & link to a jigsaw puzzle online.
Let’s get started..


A a - Anstey feeding cup.
Do you have a favourite cup? Can you draw it? How about designing your own cup - what would be the best cup ever? Superheroes, dinosaurs, elephants?
Have a go at the jigsaw puzzle of the cup.
https://t.co/o5xDrTYWBW

#MuseumJigsaws
#HomeSchooling


B b bat. Table tennis bats.
Scrunch up a piece of paper and use your hands to
bat it between you and another person. Count how many bats you do without the paper falling to the floor.

Here’s the bat puzzle to have a go at https://t.co/MIohhi6oj8

#MuseumJigsaws
#homeschooling


C c Cow (don’t say “cuh”, it’s a short c - search online for phonics videos to hear it)
Here’s a milk bottle top. What’s your favourite milk? Write the work milk? Try sounding out the letters as you write it.
Here’s a puzzle https://t.co/nfCdQ2ODr6
#MuseumJigsaws
#homeschooling


D d Drum
Here’s a cheeky young chap twanging something at a big drum! Pretend your knees are drums. With your hands, can you drum out a tune on your knees...how about…”baby shark doo doo dodo do dooo”

Here’s the puzzle https://t.co/4dTFsVYP6X

#MuseumJigsaw
#homeschooling
You know why ppl show up at the very second a class/mtg starts? It can feel awkward to sit in a room quietly or walk in on a random convo. Structure your pre #zoom time. Begin w/intentionality. It doesn’t have to be content focused, community building is good too! Some ideas...

Polls! Polls are an awesome way to start. I like using text and upvoting ones. Here are examples of the same question 2 ways. First upvote. Love this format b/c participants can see each other’s responses on their devices & choose ones that resonate for them. #prezoom


Here’s the same #prezoom question in a different poll format. Students don’t see other’s responses until they appear on the screen. I like to chat about what I see and invite others to do so too. Key: the question & instructions on how to engage are visible at entry.


There’s so much you can do to build community in the moments before class and meetings #prezoom. Here’s another example: On a scale of cat, how are you feeling today?


Here’s a Where’s Waldo like task #prezoom that I shared recently. Note: instructions should be visible on the screen as they enter so no one is left to figure out what people are doing and how to engage.
THREAD: Someone just asked me about the potential of @Pan_Quake in the context of #wallstreetbets yesterday.

Had PanQuake been in the mix, what could it have done?

The answer is *a LOT*.

I'm going to explain below.


Nevermind corporate PR campaigns, digital marketing companies or advertising - NOTHING spreads information faster or more effectively than word of mouth

PanQuake has designed a brand new first-time-ever set of amplification tools that takes word of mouth and puts it on steroids

Example #1: PanQuakes

PanQuakes would have let #wallstreetbets fans, in a series of swift clicks, select the best commentary/info about WSB (either their own messages or others or a combination thereof) & in one click convert them into a single link shareable anywhere on the net

Anyone who clicks on the link (called a PanQuake, the function for which we named the platform) would be taken to a web page with a custom timeline populated with the messages the user had selected to be displayed

ie. no more big tech choosing what we see - now we get to choose!

Example #2: ThunderQuakes

Ppl who were really excited about what #wallstreetbets was doing could choose to expend ThunderQuakes on it. Either by gifting ThunderQuakes points to key WSB accounts, to help them better amplify their messages, or by crafting TQ messages of their own