There is something going on here in Edmonton, and elsewhere. The sirens have gotten more frequent and louder, the smoke from the campfires is looking thicker than normal. Twitter vs Zombies 4 is launched but so far there is no sign of zombies I read in the feed that patient zero has escaped still no […]
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Tom and I went to the Edmonton Pride Parade on Saturday. We hadn’t planned to, but we were in the neighbourhood and we kept seeing such interesting looking people and fabulous costumes we decided to check it out. We’re glad we did, it was a great parade. Premier Dave Hancock’s was one of the first […]
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This week was the annual Arts Festival at Victoria School of the Arts. There were too many events to take them all in. We just dipped our toes in, if we had more time we could have spent the whole weekend at the school. The girls performed a few times each, and Jasmine helped with […]
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On Wednesday Paris has her Grade 6 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Exhibition. I was impressed by the work students put into the show. The night started with a song and dance performance which students had choreographed themselves. Then we were invited to view the displays of student inquiry projects around the theme Sharing the […]
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Here’s my Storify of Host Edmonton. Tom and I are already looking forward to next year. [View the story "Host Edmonton, May 22-24 2014 at the Shaw Conference Centre " on Storify]
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I had the pleasure of volunteering at Host Edmonton this weekend. It was a delicious and intimate affair. On Friday night I was able to check out the Fine Wine Gala. It was my first time in the Riverview Room, what a fantastic view! I didn’t do the wine tasting, but it looks like it […]
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I have started a new cMOOC – DC MOOC, Digital Citizenship MOOC. I didn’t plan to join another MOOC I hadn’t planned to join a new MOOC, as I am in the middle of an animation xMOOC with the Adobe Education Exchange, I have quite a few side projects going on (collaborations with friends from […]
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I was wrong about the Lefsa recipe. It wasn’t Mabel’s recipe I was thinking of, it was Hilda’s. It’s an easy mistake to make, really, the sisters lived one floor apart in Weyburn Saskatchewan for much of my adult life. Visiting my grandma during those years always included Mabel, and for a while with Aunt […]
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The second week of my animation MOOC is over. Yesterday I completed my assignment and handed it in. The only thing I still need to do is peer review (although, because of the way the course is structured I had to say I have already completed the peer review before I could submit my assignment.) […]
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Sitting on the back deck basking the sun I feel my skin absorbing the warm rays it feels photovoltaic I watch the sparrows that live in the roof land and cautiously peck at the bread I have left for them (hoping as I did so that I was feeding them and not the cat) If […]
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I’ve been busy exploring Edmonton’s art scene for the past few weeks. Last Friday Le Fuzz launched their new CD Usona, at the Yellowhead Brewery. Frank, Jason, Dwayne, Chris and Thom put on a great show, as always, and I got a copy of their new CD. Of course all of the tracks are great, […]
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Last week was the first week of the Animation MOOC that I am taking from Adobe. It was introduction week, with an orientation to the course structure and format, and a few readings and viewings to get us thinking about animation. A little too judgemental? This week has made me realize is that I am […]
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This is my Daily Create for TDC826: The sun Make a picture of the light of the sun. Do not picture the sun itself. Capture the light.
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Today’s Daily Create is Pizza in the Wild. Fortunately Tom called Pizza night tonight and made his famous dough. Here is my vegetarian beauty just before I put it in the oven. And here are the leftovers after dinner.
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Yesterday Jasmine took Tom and I on a great walk through two parks named after the Famous Five and along both sides of the North Saskatchewan River Valley. We started at Henrietta Edwards Park near the Muttart Conservatory and cross the river along the Cloverdale Footbridge. We explored the Trans Canada Trail pavilion before continuing […]
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I has the pleasure of helping chaperone a trip to the Art Gallery of Alberta (the AGA) with my daughter’s grade 6 class yesterday. I had a great time! We walked to the gallery from the school with two other classes. It was a short walk from Victoria school to Churchill Square, the weather was […]
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On Tuesday, March 18th, I hosted Post Etmooc‘s Twitter chat about Blogging. As always, it was a great conversation. There were familiar faces, a few I hadn’t seen in a while, and some new participants. I found the time to archive the chat, but it is going to take me much longer to dip into […]
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I taught a Lunch n Learn, Blogging 101, for The Centre for Global Education last Tuesday March 11th. There were more tech issues with my laptop than usual. I never did get the webcam working but after a few tense minutes I got the microphone working so I didn’t have to call Terry on the […]
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Yesterday we discovered Dawson Park, another of Edmonton’s beautiful riverside parks. The girls loved exploring the hoodoos. We could see evidence of the Mazama Volcanic eruption in Oregon 7,000 years ago in the exposed cliffs. We have a a few more parks to explore.
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Over the Christmas holidays I was given a Sunshine Blog Challenge Tanis Theissen and Julie Balen. I had a few too many things on my plate at the time to accept the challenge but life has slowed down a little bit and I have finally had a chance to reply. Sorry it has taken me […]
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I’ve been catching up on my daily photo project. Not the photos, of course, but the archives. I’ve updated the week of photos on my main Photo page for the first time in a while. I’ve started a page for my Daily Photos for 2014, and made pages for January and February‘s photos. I’ve updated […]
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Yesterday TEDx Youth Edmonton took over the Telus Auditorium at the University of Alberta. Wow! What a group of students. Here is the archive of the first set. It starts with a little room set up, you might want to jump to when the event starts at 17:40. Here is the archive of the second […]
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It’s been snowy and cold here in Edmonton My rhizomes, at least the #rhizo14 hybrid are dormant, lurking Life interceded Our learning pathways diverged I’ve been over here with the TEDx Youth Speakers, working on an ignite-style presentation, today I was at teachers convention (yes, wifi-free zone as always, seems I am supposed to disconnect […]
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Here’s the archive of my daily photos from last year. I started having a theme for the month in February once I started the second year of my daily photo project. Here is the link to the archive of the first year.
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Tom and I went for a walk along the Flying Canoe Adventure Walk in Mill Woods Ravine last night. L’Aventure du canoë volant is an annual event but it was the first time we’ve checked it out. The event is a celebration of light, winter and metis tradition. Unfortunately it was too cold to spend […]
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