Hey Colbert, Ecoutez!

My guardian got an unexpected Christmas gift...her own author page at Barnes & Noble! This, of course, is the result of her two new books in press, both available for pre-order!

This one, published by Corwin, a division of SAGE, is for teachers who are interested in remodeling their lessons for the new Common Core State Standards. The Table of Contents is here.

This one, published by University of Toronto Press, is based on her dissertation research about the inner-workings of politics of curriculum production. She hopes to have a few other books about this ready soon :)

Back in 2007, she co-authored a high school textbook for the Canadian market, published by Nelson. It was actually her third! This latest installment in high school textbook writing is titled Business Technology Today, and is the official, Trillium-approved book for grade 9/10 information technology courses in Ontario and beyond.

Of course, I make no secret of my interest in the work of Dr. Stephen T. Colbert - and my influence on her led to the inclusion of not only Colbert's important concept of Wikiality in this textbook, but even his full-color photo in the textbook! The significance of this is that Canadian teens will be exposed to Colbert's innovative commentary on social media!

"Reality has a liberal bias?" Feh!
Nonethless, we have been most disappointed that somehow this groundbreaking curricular inclusion has absolutely fallen through the cracks.
As I contemplate this oversight, I must get back to my holiday reading....

Happy 2012 to all from Humphrey!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Humphrey wishes all his friends in Willowdale and beyond a very merry Christmas!

He met some fuzzy polar bears on a pre-Christmas trip to Bayview Village.

He patiently waited by the door for the guests to arrive on Christmas Eve.

He admired the tree while lying on the sofa, so it was sideways
(or maybe he couldn't figure out how to rotate the image in blogger!)

   

There were lots of gifts for him, and that made him laugh.

 

The best gift was a plush gingerbread house filled with squeaky gingerbread characters made by Martha Stewart!
He had to stand up to open it, it was SO large!

And he had a wonderful dinner with many people he loves.
The candles on the table and the lights on the tree glittered while he enjoyed the sights, sounds, and tastes of the holiday.

It's beginning to look a lot like...

"I know that song!" Humphrey exclaimed as he heard Burl Ives on the radio. "Could it be Christmas is coming?"
Sure enough, he came home to a house full of wrapped gifts!

Sparkly packages, wrapped up in string, these are a few of my favorite things!

Please, could I open just one early??

 

One of Humphey's favorite ornaments...fleece Navidad!

 He hopes to blog more about the holidays soon, but his guardian is monopolizing the computer in an effort to finish her end-of-semester work and meet some editing deadlines.