iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A very useful document I will be sharing with like-minded colleagues and my students. Thank you, Jessamyn!

051

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Is anyone able to download books from Kobo? #Kobo

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Canadian history teacher here but my first department head used to remind me that there are no curriculum police. 👮

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Google Scholar seems to still work and we use that. I also introduced my students this semester to udm14.org. It will give you a clean Google search.

udm14.org

&udm=14 | the search engine Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

160

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I include survivor poetry in my grade 11 Genocide Studies class and those are some of the best discussions we have. We also read essays together and talk about them but there is just something about the poetry that really connects with them.

030

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I got a box of boxes (12 maybe) from Amazon a couple of years ago. I used them as my present toppers when my Christmas book was Bill Bryson’s *A Short History of Nearly Everything *. If you do Amazon.

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

youtu.be/wdpLWML_tDU?... I played this for my grade 10 Canadian history class when we did the Cold War. They were suitably freaked out.

youtu.be

Emergency Broadcast System Test (1983)

YouTube video by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I judge the quality of a Brad Pitt movie by this metric. More bare Brad = more bad the movie. 🍿

120

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Yeah…. My grade 10 Canadian history students would like to have a word.

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is Tuppence. She’s an “m”. She turned two at the start of this month. 💕

Tabby cat sleeping on a book. Her person is behind her wearing a red sweatshirt.

Tabby cat resting her head on the top of her person’s foot. She has on arm flung over the foot. Her person is wearing grey work socks and black sweat pants.

110

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Okay. So tomorrow’s new lesson plan for my Genocide Studies class is: 1) reviewing the UN declaration on genocide 2) reviewing the Protestant Reformation 3) and new learning about the Avignon papacy This is why lesson plans are written in pencil.

150

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

On Monday in my grade 11 Genocide Studies class we stood in the footprint of a gas chamber at Treblinka that I had marked on the floor and talked about 1942.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I may be misremembering but I always associate Bridewell with the incarceration of sex-workers and picking oakum.

100

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Is “renovate” the word we’re going with? Like it’s a cute little diy? They are converting warehouse into concentration camps. That what they did at Oświęcim in 1940.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Yes! I gave up driving nearly a year ago but I still take note of the price at then pump as the bus goes by. I use it as a way to gauge the mood of the stock market.

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I LOVE this show and greatly appreciate the play by play. 🚨

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Lilo and Stitch. I need the WHOLE box of tissues. I’ve never made it past the first 15 minutes of Up. I need to go have a lie-down.

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Moriyama was an alumni of the school I teach at. The ignorant disrespect for this building and natural space always makes me incandescent with rage.

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

They changed the locks on some classrooms overnight without telling anyone and a colleague thought perhaps he’d been fired 🤣

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Ooohhhh! From what faculty? I’ve got one from Brock. He was quite intrigued by my marking policies as well.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Too late. Just jammed my finger unjamming the photocopier. 🫤

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Why does the #CBC hate the arts?!? This is just as awful a hack job with commercials as the opening ceremony.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I always used to start my philosophy classes by telling my students it was my goal for them to leave more confused than when they arrived. 🙃

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hello #skystorians. I’m looking to learn more about Treblinka, the extermination camp, for the Genocide Studies class I teach. So many of the studies are out of print. Do you have any suggestions?

101

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We used the World War One collection in my grade 10 Canadian history class this morning!

130

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I've flown in the one at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum a few times. When you build an aircraft that can long haul bricks, just putting a dozen people in it mean that it DOES NOT want to land!

110

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I teach in Ontario and use it to teach about propaganda but we usually talk about what the State wan’t out of an education system.

120

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Questions I tried to answer from the young men in my grade 12 history class today: What do I think the chances are we’ll reinstate conscription? What are our chances if US troops mass at the border? If we do conscript, what is our capacity to arm and train them? Heart broken to hear their worries.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This would be a fun jigsaw puzzle. 🧩

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It was so great. My family still calls the plaza where it was located "The Consumer's Distributing plaza". It's been gone for DECADES! (It also had a Ponderosa restaurant.)

291

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

100% agree. I have a handful of brilliant gr. 12s. But most of them can’t be bothered to show up on time, clash their clans or day-trade their bit coins while I’m teaching. I’ve done everything I can think of to help them care and they just don’t. It breaks my heart.

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I’m not sure that the Overton window moves in both directions. 😕

030

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The school I teach at has plant elves. We have a plant club that propagates many different plants so we can have them in our classrooms. On Fridays after school the elves visit all the rooms to water AND mist the plants. Our plant elves are the best.

020

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You left off hot water crust. What makes a Scotch pie superior (especially if it comes from Christies’ the baker on the High Street in Airdrie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_wat...

en.wikipedia.org

Hot water crust pastry - Wikipedia

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Same. But medicine. Mr. Allum 7th & 8th grade history Dundana Public School Wentworth County District School Board

120

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Always praise a student who asks a question. And, about this time of year, the students realize if they ask me something I will take myself on multiple tangents (all round the houses) and I end up asking “did I answer your question?”

220

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Not sure if this is still the case, but when Netflix had "Five Came Back" at first, they also had (nearly?) all of the films mentioned in the documentary. Extraordinary collection.

110

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

All non-fiction books should have decent margins. 3/4 of an inch is not sufficient. I bought a PHYSICAL book. I need room for my marginalia. #ShoutingIntoTheVoid

120

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

LOVE THIS! I show this film to my genocide studies class when we’re talking about dehumanization. It sticks with them and it comes up in conversation all semester.

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

And this is why I gave up driving and now take the bus.

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Putting together our Remembrance Day Assembly. I’ve done it for 27 years and this is my last one. Writing the script, it feels like a three hankie event.

140

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today’s lessons: the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1930s and then the long term causes of the French Revolution. I was happier teaching history that was properly in the past instead of this current events nightmare. #HistoryTeacherProblems

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Could this be a reverse Reichstag fire moment? The destruction of a national treasure galvanizes the people against the State rather than the other way around?

010

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Teaching the American War of Independence today: so, the Quartering Act….. you’re gonna want to remember that.

000

Karen Dick @krdick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I said to my grade 12 history class AGAIN today: I was much happier teaching history than living through it.

000