Category Archives: Field Notes

Learning in between the curricula.

Dispatch: On Value, Cost and Price (no math)
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Dispatch: On Value, Cost and Price (no math)

A story behind Lea Vivot's sculpture Secret Bench of Knowledge, with international characters, and a marketing and sales lesson in cost, price and value, from this morning's bus commute.
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140 Characters Or Less
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140 Characters Or Less

On Twitter, character limits, meaning-making, and doing what we have always done.
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Weekend Food Blogging: Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Weekend Food Blogging: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies need just a few ingredients, and are easy to make. I've paired them with a suitably complementary simple web layout.
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Weekend Food Blogging: Crock Pot Roast
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Weekend Food Blogging: Crock Pot Roast

More experiments with web layouts and cooking. This time, a comforting crock pot roast.
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Weekend Food Blogging: Oatcakes
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Weekend Food Blogging: Oatcakes

Weekend food blogging is about two skills I want to improve simultaneously: cooking and web design layouts. These oatcakes have been a Sunday brunch staple for years.
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Stories from Beechwood Cemetery

Ottawa's Beechwood cemetery is beautiful at all times of the year, and especially so on crisp Fall days when its winding roads through wooded groves feel very 19th century.
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Dispatch: On Summer Reading
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Dispatch: On Summer Reading

In which I ponder openly about the lack of professionally designed summer reading lists for bus commuters, and modestly propose such a list.
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Learning by Observation
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Learning by Observation

Parks Canada Visitor's Guide to Gros Morne National Park makes a noteworthy connection between observing and learning in this list of Do's for watching wild animals.
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Rorschach Wilderness Blots

Among other things, an early morning canoe paddle in the still waters of Lac Taylor in Gatineau Park, Quebec last week reminded me just how mediated our experience of the world is.
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Hot Air Balloon Over Ottawa
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Hot Air Balloon Over Ottawa

Last week we experienced a hot air balloon ride that took us horizontally from Carleton University in Ottawa, across the Ottawa River to Aylmer in Quebec, and vertically through the troposphere to about 3,500 feet.
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