Tara Colborne

The Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival is back! Each year, readers and aspiring writers attend the festival for a memorable weekend of discussions, workshops and one-on-one connections with Canadian authors, poets and thinkers. Visit: denmanislandwritersfestival.com

GEORGE BOWERING HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

The Anna’s hummingbird flourishes in urban areas. Filmmakers set up their cameras in Victoria, B.C. to watch a hummingbird mom raise her young in the middle of the city. buff.ly/3o0oIVO

How to love the world more – George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty, lovely read themarginalian.org/2023/04/09/geo…

My undergrads struggle to read – I think I know why aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

I asked #chatgpt4 how long it would take to write a 5 para biography for every living person on the planet today and the answer was 84 hours. 84 hours. That’s 3 1/2 days to write a story about all of us. (It did confess it would have to do a lot of data mining first, but…) #ai

@amandadeibert Yum! This has all the things… food.com/amp/recipe/com…

I need good house full of people and I gotta cook Christmas dinner breakfast ideas. Do you have a favorite breakfast casserole recipe? Should I try to work a bagel bar?

It won’t end it, but this changes everything. Chat GPT writes essays, speeches, poems, songs, descriptions - and it’s just getting started…#EnglishTeacher

@PennyDaflos @msferreira_eng @BCChildrensHosp @CTVVancouver Our classrooms are 30% or more empty right now. I suspect if someone collected the data it would be shocking…

BREAKING: @BCChildrensHosp emergency department is seeing a “surge storm” of sick kids and has opened an overflow ED as they triage young patients @CTVVancouver #bcpoli bc.ctvnews.ca/overflow-er-op…

@realreporter I’ve never seen illness levels this high in my 22 years as a teacher…

I'm hearing of very high levels of absent pupils in many schools. Some reaching 40% reporting ill. One of the sources is a school principal. What does it take to push Bonnie Henry to take preventive actions? She has so much inertia, she'll do nothing unless she's pushed.

I can’t stop looking… Look! Look! Look! worldometers.info/world-populati…

Join us for tomorrow's Fireside Chat with Chelene Knight @LWEstudio Chelene talks with host Megan Cole @MegzyCole about her novel Junie (Book*Hug). Bring your questions for a Q & A with Chelene. Register: bcwriters.ca/event-4911717 @bookhugpress #fbcw #bcwriters

@MisterCavey To Chill is a Skill Too.

Hi teacher friends, I'm trying to write a blog post as a letter of concern for middle schoolers who are excelling at school but still experiencing crippling anxiety. "Stop Taking School So Seriously" sounds too harsh as a title. How would you put this?

Excited to host this series! Our first session focuses on English First Peoples 10-12 with @DeniseAugustin1 @EmmaMilliken4 & @EricaFitton. Please share widely! @UBCEduc @kootenayteach @mcarolynroberts @KyleMcKillop @jknott_ @kyla_hadden @AnneTenning @fayebrownlie @KarenRagoonaden

And for those of you learning from @luudisk today, how about we use #efpbc to share ideas!?

A huge thank you to @BCTELA, @TheDannyRamadan and all the presenters for such a an inspiring day!

@TheDannyRamadan I just finished this book to prepare to hear your keynote speech at the betela conference so I will Twitter review your book right here. Right now. If your book were a cake, it’s this one. So filled with goodness. So extraordinarily satisfying. So beautiful. I gobbled it up!

@MegzyCole Across the way, we’ve been enduring a Take Back the Comox Valley group 🙄

What teens want from YA literature, and how we can give it to them with Michelle Barker and David Brown from Darling Axe - Join us TODAY to find out! Register: ow.ly/HvAA50Ke5YK @DarlingAxe #fbcw #bcwriters #bcauthors #writersinbc #yukonwriters #yafiction #yabooks

Join us on Wed, Sep 14 at 1 pm for Wise Words: 65 is the New Writer, with Lenore Rowtree! Register here: bcwriters.ca/event-4911674 @LRowntreeWriter @ReadThistledown #fbcw #bcwriters #bcauthors #writersinbc #yukonwriters #writerslife #writersblock #seniors #nevertoolate