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Podcast Launch Features New Year’s Resolutions
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Ancestry Project podcast. The first episode is “New Year’s Resolutions” and features student and teacher PDF and audio streams and downloads (free MP3 download for registered users). The episode discusses an article by psychologist David DeSteno. In the excerpt, read by Mike Simpson, the concept of…
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Canadian Songs: Listen to Rocks and Trees by Wendell Ferguson (Free Download!)
Rocks and Trees is an awesome track. It’s a fun tune, describing driving across the beautiful but monotonous landscape of northern Ontario. The download is free to registered Ancestry Project users. Learn more about Rocks and Trees by Wendell Ferguson.
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Interview with Mike Simpson
Why did you create Ancestry Project? What is your role? I wrote about this in a recent blog post but I’m happy to summarize it here. As a teacher and designer interested in bridging the worlds of education and design-media, it was a curiosity to me to see how I might develop and implement a…
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NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof’s Family Immigration Story Told Via Engaging Documentary
Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, who covers human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. In the column and short documentary, “Mr. Trump, Meet My Family,” Kristof describes the journey his father took as an Eastern European refugee, as he escaped hardship and eventually made his way to America. He also puts his family’s history into present day context.
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Canada 150: Canadians Celebrate in 2017
Canadians will be celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1 and throughout all of 2017. What are you plans? How will you mark the occasion? In 1867 Canada was a young nation just getting to its feet. It is said by some that Expo 1967 was Canada’s coming out party. Well here we are 50…