Katherine Parrish

  • blogging be banned

    For our culminating media project (end of the term, worth a lot of marks), I decided to ask them to create a blog of their own. I know that blogs are pretty much a social media relic, but the TDSB has banned access to most other forms of social media: instagram, tiktok, discord, facebook… But,…

  • The House of Dust

    Alison Knowles: George, couldn’t we extend the scale further andhave a whole city as the contents of a book? Huge pages as the sideof an office building, a single page with water pouring down thefront in the park, a page out flat as bridge, as door to the city? George Quasha: I’ve dreamt of such…

  • goodies for the break

    For the first week of winter holidays, I am treating myself to a mental moratorium about anything to do with school, and going for a romp in all the new publications about computer generated text. Like many people into this kind of thing, I am very excited to have in my hot little hands, OUTPUT:…

  • We are so smart! SMRT!

    We’re two weeks or so into a unit on Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet, and I’m really trying make it all about the film, but since I’ve only previously taught it as a play, albeit with heavy reliance on Baz, I keep slipping. The kids had no idea who or what I was talking about…

  • designing with AI be like…

    For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on my “brand.” ChatGPT4 has been extremely helpful with helping me develop and refine my brand voice, mission statement, and anything conceptual or texty. The design GPTs sometimes struggle with “understanding” (I’m using the term very loosely) what I want, and often persist in resisting my…