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James Kruck, PhD
@jameskruck.bsky.social
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Trained in Classics, now focused on learning experiences. Learning Experience Designer at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

website: jameskruck.com
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Delivery took awhile, but I'm excited that @drtolunoah.bsky.social's new book has arrived, just in time for a flight. Looking forward to digging in
Cover of Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality by Dr Tolulope Noah
July 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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cdorado75.bsky.social
💣📢 Ojo al impresionante momento vivido hace unas horas en Roma: el descubrimiento en la Vía Apia de una tumba altoimperial intacta, todavía con su decoración musivaria, losas de mármol, huecos para libaciones y una inscripción funeraria griega.
¡Vamos a disfrutarlo! 🧵👇
#AncientBlueSky
May 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years
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This piece of LEGO antiquity takes Ideas back 2,000 years
A grand recreation of the Pantheon as it stood almost 2,000 years ago has racked up 10,000 votes on LEGO Ideas.
www.brickfanatics.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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dylanmackayphd.bsky.social
Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
National Letter
Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...
docs.google.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
I recently published "Memory Garden: Intergenerational Connection," an interactive lesson on designing spaces that connect us to the past.

This project came from a workshop where I found LaFever's article, "Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel." doi.org/10.1080/1467...

#LearningDesign
Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel: creating learning outcomes that support Indigenous ways of knowing in post-secondary education
Based on a review of works by Indigenous educators, this paper suggests a four-domain framework for developing course outcome statements that will serve all students, with a focus on better support...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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a11yawareness.bsky.social
An accessibility statement lets your users know you're committed to web accessibility. These statements usually include the accessibility standard applied, such as WCAG 2.1 AA. They also include contact information in case users encounter problems.

www.w3.org/WAI/planning...
Developing an Accessibility Statement
This resource helps you create an accessibility statement for your own website, mobile application, or other digital content.
www.w3.org
March 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome | British Museum
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Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge gives us a countdown of five notable female figures from the ancient world.
www.britishmuseum.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
I was cleaning out my Chrome bookmarks (yeesh!) and I came across a pretty cool page I'd forgotten about. The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum collects Latin inscriptions; some of which you can view on Wikipedia (some are a tad explicit, but that's showbiz): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_...
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual Discovered at Pompeii
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Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual Linked to the Cult of Dionysus Discovered at Pompeii
A massive bacchanalian frieze spanning three walls has been discovered in a banquet hall.
www.artnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
@emollick.bsky.social recent post on Claude's coding capability had me curious, so I created a couple of artifacts with it to see what it could do. In this first example (claude.site/artifacts/7e...), I asked it to create an interactive exploration of a poem of Horace I did a paper on. (1/7)
Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
claude.site
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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cacscec.bsky.social
York University recently announced that admissions to the Classics and Classical Studies programs have been suspended for Fall 2025. Classical Studies colleagues and students at York would be grateful for letters of support.

How you can help: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/supp...

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Urgent: Letters of Support for Classics and Classical Studies at York University! - The Classical Association of Canada
Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates! Nous vous invitons à vous inscrire à notre newsletter afin de recevoir les mises à jour! First name Last name Email Institution/ Organization All subscri...
www.cac-scec.ca
February 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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stuffbymark.bsky.social
Day five of the Valentine’s inspired ‘songs reimagined as old romance comics’ series. This time Joy Division.
February 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
New book day! @biblioracle.bsky.social
Hardcopy version of John Warner's "more than words" book.
February 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
A1) perhaps not surprising for l&d folks, but the ability to make use of what I'm learning is a big motivator. Especially when I can see the results right away (see my earlier answer about html coding) #LearnChat
learnchat.bsky.social LearnChat @learnchat.bsky.social · Feb 5
Q1) What motivates you most when you’re learning something new? How does this influence your approach to designing for others? #LearnChat
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
jameskruck.bsky.social
A0) Hi #LearnChat! I'm James, from London Ontario. This week I've been learning about html coding. We're looking for a bit more control in the accessibility of our courses.
learnchat.bsky.social LearnChat @learnchat.bsky.social · Feb 5
Q0) We like to start the chat with a round of introductions. Please let us know a bit about yourself: who you are, where you are from, what kind of work you do, and maybe share something you have learned this week.

Don't forget to add #LearnChat to each post/response so it shows up in the feed.
February 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
jameskruck.bsky.social
I just had a stern talk with ChatGPT. There is real dad energy here.
A conversation with chatgpt. James has called out some unrequested editing that chatgpt has done, and chatgpt has responded: " You're absolutely right to call that out—I should have let you know if any text was removed during updates. I’ll now restore the full text in the "Course Welcome""
February 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Ancient Hadrian's Stadium Restoration Starts in Bolu - Anatolian Archaeology
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Ancient Hadrian's Stadium Restoration Starts in Bolu - Anatolian Archaeology
Explore the ongoing restoration of the ancient Hadrian's Stadium in Bolu, a significant historical landmark in Türkiye's Black Sea region...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
January 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
December 11, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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moryan.bsky.social
Also here is a spreadsheet of displaced Black families from Altadena docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
January 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
De via silvestri by Satura Lanx - Latin language and literature for beginners
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(46) De via silvestri by Satura Lanx - Latin language and literature for beginners
Welcome to Satura Lanx, upper beginner / intermediate podcast told in beginner-friendly, easy spoken Latin. Every other Saturday I chat about everything concerning Latin (literature, language, culture...
creators.spotify.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
jameskruck.bsky.social
Here's a great read on integrating GenAI directly into the learning process. Includes a brief history of education wrestling with AI in the classroom and some ideas around meaningful integration. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three...
Three ways to develop students’ AI literacy
Is higher education prepared for a future defined by AI, or do we need to do more to align education with technology’s changing landscape? Here are three ways to get your students to engage with it cr...
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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New research from Sweden shows that higher ed course design is at least as important as teaching/teacher for both student engagement & student perceptions of course quality. Implication: teaching evaluation forms should ask about course design at least as much as teaching.
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings - Higher Education
Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data...
doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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emilybell.bsky.social
If you have been playing around with notebook LM you will already know why podcasters are alarmed . At @towcenter.bsky.social we put it through its paces at turning stories into political material in about 5 minutes - www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
Plotting with Podcasts
AI tools are generating ultra-realistic customized podcasts that can be used for a variety of legitimate purposes. The Tow Center tests how they can also create misleading content and propaganda.
www.cjr.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:22 PM