Category Archives: Field Notes

The learn­ing that hap­pens in between the curricula.

Wearable Textbooks
Field Notes

Wearable Textbooks

The purist form of mobile learning is the shirt on your back.
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Dispatch: On Value, Cost and Price (no math)
Field Notes

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
Field Notes

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
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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
Field Notes

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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