August 28, 2024

Is Your Content Goonable?

In response to the alarmingly small attention spans of their students, who would rather engage with smartphones and other devices than pay attention in class, some teachers have tried a new approach to capture their students’ attention. Continue reading

Categories: Information Architecture

Tags: UX
July 12, 2024

Movies I Saw in June 2024

In April, I made the claim that I had gone “a little crazy with movies” that month. That was with twelve movies; compared to that, June was on another level. And July is on pace to be even crazier (I’ve been watching 1-2 movies a day consistently). I even excluded several entries from this month’s Continue reading

Categories: Movies
June 13, 2024

Movies I Saw in May 2024

I enjoyed most of the movies I saw this month, including a fantastic thriller set in Atlantic Canada and a straight-up propaganda film that was the most Canadian non-Canadian film I’ve ever seen. Continue reading

Categories: Movies
June 9, 2024

Movies I Saw at Hot Docs 2024

A little over a month ago, I attended the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for the first time. There was a wide variety of subject matter, and I appreciated that most (every?) showing included filmmaker Q&As after the credits. I’ll go again next year, as long as the festival’s apparent financial woes don’t tank Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Movies
May 11, 2024

Movies I Saw in April 2024

I went a little crazy with movies in April. You’ll see. Cineplex ran a Stanley Kubrick series, and the TIFF Bell Lightbox – which has now solidified itself as my favorite place to see movies – offered lots of great stuff this month. I’ll leave out the movies I saw at Hot Docs, which started Continue reading

Categories: Movies