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Derek Schraner: books, biography, latest update

🦍They are two new children and YA poetry books called Fantastic Slam, a connected series of poems about an epic “rap battle” between 8 legendary creatures #Canada. If you like #BigFoot and #Ogopogo and the Cheenoo and #Thunderbird, these are your cup of (creature feature) tea. 👹 #CanLit

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Follow Derek Schraner and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Derek Schraner Author Page.

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🎲 But this devastating setback became an opportunity for both of us to fulfill a life-long dream of becoming #authors and #gamedesigners. To live the art life, to quote #DavidLynch. Today, he's written a whopping twelve (12!!!) #gamebooks that are freaking amazing.

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Derek Schraner: books, biography, latest update

📦 Like a lot of people in #postsecondary in #Ontario, Derek and I lost our jobs 10s of 1,000s of highly qualified folks like Derek in #Ontario have as well in a time when #Canada needs to be spending on research and development, education and innovation rather than cutting

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Follow Derek Schraner and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Derek Schraner Author Page.

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🌚 🌜 I'm over the moon thrilled by the reception of a project my partner and I had been secretly working on for months. Today, it is NUMBER 1 on #Amazon's Humourous Poetry for Children releases. www.amazon.ca/Fantastic-Sl...

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It is so painful now that magic is gone. We are all blessed beyond measure that she was in our lives. That we all remember her magic. Her art.

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Violet was an artist. And a great one at that. She wielded a sort of magic, it always seemed to me. It is the kind of magic that when you are around it, it lulls you into taking it for granted. Like it has always been there and it will always be there for you.

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Can you imagine what the world would be like if more people were like Violet? People caring that much about how to treat people? How to do better? How to be kind?

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Violet took such delicate care with people too. She cared so deeply. She’d worry that she’d hurt or offended people.

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That’s because Violet was magic.

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Her precision and care was right there in everything she did. For my wedding, she made intricate, delicate crocheted doilies by the 100s. Every tiny, white stitch was perfect. She did all this while being legally blind.

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Violet was an artist. She wielded a sort of magic, it always seemed to me.

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Her magic was in making a home. Making a meal. Baking. Crocheting. Making you feel important. Making you feel welcome. Cared for.

Violet was an artist. She wielded a sort of magic, it always seemed to me.

Her precision and care was right there in everything she did. For my wedding, she made intricate, delicate crocheted doilies by the 100s. Every tiny, white stitch was perfect. She did all this while being legally blind.

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Lockdown Ludonaut 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @lockdownludonaut.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

💐This thread is for my friend, Violet Elva Derouin (nee Thomson) 1935 - 2026 who we lost this month. 🪻Violet was meticulous. Violet was an artist. Her artistry was in everything she did. 🌷Her magic was in making a home. Making a meal. Baking. Crocheting. Making you feel important.

Violet was meticulous. Violet was an artist. Her artistry was in everything she did.

Her magic was in making a home. Making a meal. Baking. Crocheting. Making you feel important. Making you feel welcome. Cared for.

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🍁Dive into the interactive world of Operation CanCon, where your mission is to collect Canadian music on the #YongeStreet in the 1980s. Travel back in time to SAVE Canada. #CDNpoli #Toronto #CanadaDay #gamebook #interactivefiction #CYOA

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Lockdown Ludonaut 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @lockdownludonaut.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Want the perfect gift for #CanadaDay? 🍁Dive into the interactive world of Operation CanCon #gamebook, where your mission is to collect Canadian music on the #YongeStreet in the 1980s. Travel back in time to SAVE Canada. #CDNpoli #Toronto #CanadaDay #gamebook #interactivefiction #CYOA

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Clearest audio of Trump being booed at MSG in NYC for the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs:

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🎊🎈Wooot! I am so proud of my partner ‪@schraner71‬ and his publishing imprint ‪@LockdownLudonaut‬ for this incredible overview from the awesome ‪@KWHgames‬ 🎲Want to make your own #heist #gamebook? Check out this great overview. youtu.be/Xz87dDoBTz4?...

Coffee with Kilroy - The Break System (Schraner) + Bonus!

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Remote learning and work only works for ✅ People with childcare responsibilities ☑ People with eldercare responsibilities ✅People who privilege getting s*** done ☑ People with disabilities #PwD ✅Women youtube.com/post/Ugkxd3r...

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🪙🪙When you start to observe which kind of #workers or #leaders despise #remotework , you'll notice something they all have in common. These very loud voices ...

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A little story requested by a viewer about how I got rid of my Northern working-class accent and how IMPOSSIBLE English pronunciation can be... By reciting "The Chaos" an impossible, maddening poem... #HigherEd #ESL #postsecondary #AcademicSky youtu.be/tRn3O6uGHeo

'The Chaos' of English - The Struggle To Pronounce Words In English Is Real

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🍁My partner wrote a #gamebook about music shopping on #Toronto's #Yonge Street in the 1980s called #OperationCanCon and it is pretty much my favourite thing in the world. #Cdnpoli #Canada #interactivefiction youtu.be/1acB7sd1uJM?...

Rules for Operation #CanCon - A 1980s #CanadianMusic #Gamebook

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Aren't drop out rates in first year higher in general? Is it correlation or causation? I wrote this analysis for a project with some stats that might prove helpful to you. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Access to Online Learning Options at TMU The Creative School Backgrounder prepared by Dr. Tanya Pobuda, Feb. 20, 2024 "In this situation, we don't simply want to frantically struggle to restore the ...

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🍁#InternationalStudents are essential to #Canada. 👍🏼They are a net positive in every way. #OnPoli #HigherEd #AcademicSky youtu.be/o6l3WvwbiNg?...

International Students Are Essential To Canada

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People who don't like remote work, #WFH and #hybridwork: ✅Bullies ☑Procrastinators ✅Micromanagers ☑Folks who cling to the old ways of doing things

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☑People with long commutes ✅People who struggle to make ends meet or live with lower incomes ☑People with #neurodivergence ✅Bosses and business owners who value productivity ☑Task-oriented, high achievers

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Remember most of the stats are based on online MOOC courses. My experience as a student and as a teacher is just the opposite, online prevented students from dropping out.

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I've been working remotely since the 1990s and this is how #corporate #Canada works... The fact that #universities and #colleges aren't preparing students for this work style is bizarre to me. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #OnPoli youtube.com/shorts/pTu19...

We Must Prepare Canadian Students For Online Work

Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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Again for context: a majority of Canadians (& Albertans) want strong climate policy and renewables, even if they have just felt the need to self silence due to spin. "In fact 70% of the public [& a majority of Albertans] would feel pride if Canada were to become a renewable energy superpower, vs...

(2/2) only 30 percent feeling that way about becoming an oil/gas superpower."

Different June 2025 poll: '67% of Canadians favour developing clean energy over fossil fuels while 85% wish to maintain or increase federal climate action

72% in AB supported maintaining if not increasing climate action.

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📚🔖Today I am talking about #internationalstudents to #Canada and how deeply I feel for them. I talk about my own struggles in #undergrad and how I worked to get rid of a regional accent that I found changed the way folks treated me. youtube.com/shorts/LKzC-...

Speaking Out About Struggles For International Students in Canada

Dr. Tanya Pobuda @tpobuda.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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Yes, *because* #universities and #colleges don't offer flexible options. And that's my entire point. In a time when universities and colleges are *desperate* for students... and *say* they want diversity on campus, the inflexibility is bizarre. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Looming College-Enrollment Death Spiral

After many decades of democratization, higher education could once again become a luxury good.

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The only brief respite for me as a student AND instructor in #Ontario #postsecondary was remote learning. It helped when I was too broke to even commute to classes, which is an experience shared by a lot of students and instructors. #AcademicSky #OnPoli #universities youtube.com/shorts/vJPg5...

70% Of First Generation Students Prefer Online Learning

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Like a lot of #postsecondary instructors in #Ontario, I am out of work. I don't think I can accurately describe to you how bleak things are for #students and #teachers right now in #Ontario. I share my own experiences as a student AND a teacher. #OnPoli #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/Hzud1...

Things Are Bleak In Ontario Postsecondary

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This reality is going to prove a challenge for #postsecondary long-term. The solution? Online learning. Online learning works. #distancelearning #remotework #remotelearning #digitalskills #highered #universities

“Successfully working from home is a skill, just like programming, designing or writing. It takes time and commitment to develop that skill, and the traditional office culture doesn’t give us any reason to do that.”
– Alex Turnbell

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Given these realities, there is little wonder that 70% of first-generation students choose online as their single most-preferred class structure. I also have heard from multiple students sharing they had to drop in-person courses because of conflicting job responsibilities.

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