Professionally, I am an experienced educator who uses human-centered design to develop content and design curriculum that create high-quality equitable collaborative and self-driven learning experiences, engaging educational products, and effective pedagogical practices. Proactive and solution-oriented problem solver and team leader adept at managing cross-functional workflows. Personally, I am a collector of vintage china, umbrellas, and hats; a chocolate ice-cream connoisseur; an advocate for all things open (technology and education in particular); a feminist; as well as a writer and an editor.
I usually teach a senior Caribbean literature seminar in the late Spring, right before graduation. As any high-school teacher knows, this is not the best time to assign essays and difficult texts, so in the Spring of 2015, I decided to divide the class into teams and have them create Wikipedia articles on the assigned novels using the Wikipedia: Manual of Style/Novels as a template. These are the results: Team 1: Robert Antoni's WhatlessBoys/sandbox, Team 2: Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter, and Team 3: As Flies To Whatless Boys (Links to a Google Document).
I believe that people fundamentally want information to be free. If we want to live in a free world, then we should work towards liberating information from artificial constraints.
In the spirit of Wikipedia, I primarily use references that can be accessed freely online. If I can't find enough documentation, then I will use closed sources. In an ideal world, any reader from any where in the world should be able to access the full text of the reference cited.
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