Archive for May, 2009
Craig rides to the top of the hill coming out of Cochrane on the way back to Calgary. What a beautiful day for a ride!
a bench along the pathway at one end of the duck pond near campus. this pond is now the home to nearly a dozen resident ducks, and many other birds have moved back into the trees surrounding it. campus sounds alive again.
Evan hunts for fossils behind our house – he got lucky on this expedition, returning with a back plate from a stegosaurus, and several tyrannosaurus teeth.
All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power. - John Dewey, Democracy and Education
I wonder what Dewey would have thought of the LMS…
I’m not sure what these are (cinquefoil?) but they just blossommed en masse on the bluffs overlooking the Bow River. Lots of bright yellow spread along the pathway.
I’ve been farting around with a Manfrotto Super Clamp to attach a camera to my bike to experiment with techniques to document the Ride to Conquer Cancer. I’ve got a bunch of stuff to try, but I’m getting closer to something that I’m happy with.
Here’s the first half of my ride home from UCalgary campus through the streets of NW Calgary – sped up about 3x. I was averaging between 30-40km/h for this portion of the ride.
(video doesn’t show up in RSS feed. grumble.)
I still have a few things to figure out – the clamp isn’t quite level, so I need to MacGuyver a way to level the thing so the footage isn’t all leaning to one side – but it’s getting close.
at the west end of the Bowmont pathway system, in Silver Springs.
I’m trying the Manfrotto Super Clamp on the handlebars again, this time with my little Fujifilm point and shoot camera – I’m not sure that camera will survive much vibration though…
if you look very closely, you can see the ghosts of some of the YYC Photo Book project members. or at least their feet.
Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity, any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others. A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof. - John Dewey, 1916, Democracy and Education
The quote is almost 100 years old. I wonder what Dewey would have thought about the Internet, email, IM, blogs, and tweets…