Comments for Eloquent Graffiti

Comment on A Father’s New Manifesto: My Kids Won’t Bully Yours! by Jay Grimes

Jay Grimes — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:26:06 +0000

Wow man! convicting, encouraging, and empowering all in one full shot! well written man. I hope many people see this and resist the urge to judge the other and willing allow their own conscience to be awakened. Thanks.

Comment on Our ‘Precious’ Stories: How to Survive Their Film Adaptations by Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:56:43 +0000

Thank you for seeing what so many of us love in Les Miserables. Those ideals and aspirations and the actors who so brilliantly deliver those characters are to be cherished particularly Hugh Jackman at the center of a magnificent film as the core they all revolve around.

Comment on I’m Finally ‘Mobile’: Reflecting on a Dozen Years at Rogers Communications by Dylan K

Dylan K — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:43:27 +0000

Enjoy that school. A word of advice for GCI: bring air fresheners for classes on the 4th floor. The summer (and beginning of fall) brings an odd smell to the aptly named “curry level”.

You did it man. Bring your level of excellence to the classroom and let the students see what things like attitude and perseverance can get them.

- DK

Comment on I’m Finally ‘Mobile’: Reflecting on a Dozen Years at Rogers Communications by Shelby

Shelby — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:27:12 +0000

It was a pleasure to have worked with you Paul. You were an amazing Sales Associate! You will be a fantastic teacher, of that I am sure! All the best in your future endeavours!

Shelby

Comment on About Me by PaulClifford

PaulClifford — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:39:19 +0000

Not as consistently as I’d like, but indeed I am!

…still trying to master the art of the brief but pithy post. Once I get started I can’t help but write an essay!

Comment on About Me by Jon Parks

Jon Parks — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:05:15 +0000

This is a discovery – Paul is blogging!

Comment on Kony 2012: Four Messages I Shared with Students by Douglas Green (@drdouggreen)

Douglas Green (@drdouggreen) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:32:43 +0000

I like your thinking. Just listened to This Week In Tech where they had some concerns about this. The people doing this documentary have not allowed financial audit and seem to be keeping almost all of the funds raised to support their organization. The video is a re edit of 2006 film and the large number of hits could be the result of a robot. In any event very few people to go there watch the entire 30 minutes. This could be a good lesson in propaganda for students, but it looks like smart people putting out a video gone viral to make a lot of money. It reminds some of Michael More’s work. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Kony 2012: Four Messages I Shared with Students by PaulClifford

PaulClifford — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:15 +0000

You raise several more interesting points, Royan. Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

The ‘post-colonial hue’ is ever-present and worth naming and unpacking. The juxtaposition of the #Kony2012 video and other documentaries that you suggest would make for a worthwhile exercise.

I agree wholeheartedly that joining the campaign while ‘maintaining a critical eye’ is extremely difficult, if not, impossible. I hope that my comments above didn’t appear to endorse this option. Though a part of me might like to flatly dismiss the campaign, I was simply trying to sort out the reservations I had about discouraging student participation.

Despite the many challenges, my belief is that we CAN guide students toward the conclusion that Invisible Children has it wrong, but they need to discover it and own it. The problem, of course, is the idealistic tendencies I referred to and the inexperience/”lack of historical context” you rightly identified. How many will really do the leg-work to ensure the film is not misleading them? As such, if we have encountered reputable sources exposing inaccuracies during our own quest for understanding, it makes perfect sense to make them known to our students.

Thanks again for stimulating even more thought on this subject.

Comment on Kony 2012: Four Messages I Shared with Students by PaulClifford

PaulClifford — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:40:35 +0000

Know what you mean about guilt–turns out this was my first post in 2 months! Thanks for your generous words, Jabiz.

Comment on Kony 2012: Four Messages I Shared with Students by PaulClifford

PaulClifford — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:35:45 +0000

Excellent point, Alex. We’re forever attempting to guide research behaviours and instruct students in the important task of evaluating web sources. Our hope, of course, is that these practices will become second nature and will be applied to all media they encounter online, etc. but this campaign allows for yet another opportunity to connect this ‘academic’ behaviour to their ‘real world’. Thanks for the comment.