by Tara Robertson | Aug 12, 2018 | Blog
Amber Dawn invited me to share the story of my queer “root” as part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival’s program. It was an honour to be on stage with poet and marketing pro, David Ly; filmmaker and artist in residence Thirza Cuthand, wizard, goldsmith and...
by Tara Robertson | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of chatting with the folks from the Centre for Teaching and Learning at UBC about accessibility, universal design for learning and inclusion. I’m really happy with how this video turned out. I love that captioning is now...
by Tara Robertson | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
Rajiv Jhangiani’s post Just how inclusive are “inclusive access” e-textbook programs? points out the problems with mandatory course fees for all students to lease access to online textbooks. This so-called “inclusive access” model has been piloted at...
by Tara Robertson | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
I’m a huge fan of Liberating Structures. Despite the name being a little hokey they are great facilitation techniques that are designed to democratize participation and come up with different, new and better ideas. I’ve been dabbling in using these in...
by Tara Robertson | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog
I feel a great deal of gratitude towards many people who really have my back. I’m one of those annoying extroverts who needs to think out loud. I appreciate the generosity that all of these people have extended to me. These people are friends, colleagues, comrades,...
by Tara Robertson | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
This is my third post about Reveal Digital and On Our Backs. The first post in March outlines my objections with this content being put online. The second post has some contributor agreements I found in the Cornell’s Rare Books and Manuscripts collection and the...
