I almost didn’t go, but a prompt from a Facebook friend this afternoon got me out to a terrific concert at the Courthouse Theatre tonight. It’s a cozy venue I hadn’t experienced so far in this music-mad city and apparently where the Georgian Bay Folk Society hold their events between Summerfolks. The Sultans of String [...]
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It became evident to me this week that taking two courses at a time is a bad idea. It’s not that I didn’t have time, actually, it’s that I didn’t have enough brain cells to consume the avalanche of material. I had just enough other things on deadline to divert my attention when I needed [...] The peach marathon continued today, but I decided to fit in a batch of bread, thinking that having cartloads of jam without it would be dismaying, to say the least. I’ve been working my way through my old standards in bread recipes, in anticipation of the bread workshop I have committed to in November. Kneading [...] Today was all about peaches. Well, not quite, but I’ll get to the other thing. Our peach tree is still laden with deliciousness and I have been picking judiciously so that I get them when they’re ripe, just before they drop or get sampled by creatures, trying not to pick so many that I can’t [...] It’s gratifying that much of this connectivism course seems to be relevant to what I have tried to do with my information architecture teaching — to help people understand that the digital interaction, the connectivity that the technology is part of, influences and even determines the information that is created, consumed or shared. Today I [...] On this rainy Sunday, I had lots to do indoors. Bob and I tackled installing light fixtures in three places, with two of the efforts going well. I struggled and failed with the first, then he stepped in and handled the other two with no problems — but his wiring setup was a lot easier [...] Today’s excursion took my mother and I to visit Uncle Gordon, who is recovering nicely from a minor medical issue. He was holding for us the genealogist’s equivalent of a pot of gold. We picked up a box of vintage photographs rescued from the attic of a house owned by his sister Dorothy, who died [...] My week left very little time to spend on either of my courses, so you can guess what is in store for my weekend. I did manage to cruise through a number of emails and followed the odd link. This one, oddly enough, didn’t come from the course conversations; it was scribbled in the margin [...] The two women I am running this week’s internship program for are a dream to work with. They are inquisitive, interested in the material, and quick, both to question what is unclear, and to draw their own conclusions and connections. My role is that of mentor, rather than teacher; thus I think it’s my job [...] I’ve spent the past two days mostly on the phone with the interns I am coaching, and fitting time into breaks and late afternoon spots some efforts to keep up with emails from the connectivism course. Not easy, when there are just under 2000 people in the course, posting their introductions and greeting others they [...] |
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