Autonomy vs Agency
Autonomy has been baked into the Makerspace’s pedagogies and values from the start. For example, “Interest-based learning and autonomy” is one of our core pe...
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pedagogy
Reading Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality in the Academic Makerspace
“Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpo...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 48: Collaborating with/on AI, domain expertise as a frame, and the rise of bluesky
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 47: Multimodality Pomodoro Fuckboy Workflow Automations
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 39: Attention as Pedagogy
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Three Challenges for Makerspace Users
I give a talk when classes and other groups visit the Makerspace that is meant to explain what we are, how we can be used, and hopefully makes them feel welc...
Minimalist Making
Minimalist making is an idea I’m adapting from Danica Savonick’s concept of “Minimalist Digital Humanities” that builds on the idea of frugal innovation and ...
makerspaces
Autonomy vs Agency
Autonomy has been baked into the Makerspace’s pedagogies and values from the start. For example, “Interest-based learning and autonomy” is one of our core pe...
Reading Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality in the Academic Makerspace
“Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpo...
CrosspostKnitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the Makerspace (Crosspost from TRU Library Makerspace Blog)
Note: this post is cross-posted to the TRU Library Makerspace Blog and the original was posted here: Knitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 39: Attention as Pedagogy
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Three Challenges for Makerspace Users
I give a talk when classes and other groups visit the Makerspace that is meant to explain what we are, how we can be used, and hopefully makes them feel welc...
Minimalist Making
Minimalist making is an idea I’m adapting from Danica Savonick’s concept of “Minimalist Digital Humanities” that builds on the idea of frugal innovation and ...
AI
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “The Expert System’s Champion”and LLMs as Perspective Simulacra Engines and/or Frankensteinian Sacks of Neural Meat
Like many, I’ve been playing with LLMs over the past two years, and my own understanding of these technologies continues to evolve the more I use them. There...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 16: What I want from AI is an on-demand committee of cocaine-fuelled Franklins remixing and probing my ideas with me
_Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I'm grappling wit...
Weekly Reviews 3 and 4 - April 17 - 30, 2023
“I think the meaning of life is to let your heart be broken.” Stephen Levine quoted here
Weekly Review 1: March 27-April 9, 2023
It’s Easter Sunday and I should be driving to Vancouver to spend two days with family but instead I’m at home on antibiotics. Two weeks ago I had two bridges...
Levelling the Playing Field for Structured Bullshit: Using AI as a Tool for Refactoring Content (Making ChatGPT write my grant proposal)
The XYZ University Sustainability Initiative is a comprehensive project aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability on campus. We are see...
bureaucracy
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Weekly Reviews 3 and 4 - April 17 - 30, 2023
“I think the meaning of life is to let your heart be broken.” Stephen Levine quoted here
Levelling the Playing Field for Structured Bullshit: Using AI as a Tool for Refactoring Content (Making ChatGPT write my grant proposal)
The XYZ University Sustainability Initiative is a comprehensive project aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability on campus. We are see...
Technology
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 34: Knitting Machines, Co-Learning Sessions, and Reconnecting with the Work
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Levelling the Playing Field for Structured Bullshit: Using AI as a Tool for Refactoring Content (Making ChatGPT write my grant proposal)
The XYZ University Sustainability Initiative is a comprehensive project aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability on campus. We are see...
academic libraries
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Weekly Review 1: March 27-April 9, 2023
It’s Easter Sunday and I should be driving to Vancouver to spend two days with family but instead I’m at home on antibiotics. Two weeks ago I had two bridges...
Academic Librarianship in the Chthulucene
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places” (Haraway, 2...
projects
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 47: Multimodality Pomodoro Fuckboy Workflow Automations
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 46: One month left in the semester panic / / Pomodoro Fuckboy Rabbit Hole
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
CrosspostKnitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the Makerspace (Crosspost from TRU Library Makerspace Blog)
Note: this post is cross-posted to the TRU Library Makerspace Blog and the original was posted here: Knitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the...
makerspace
WeekNotes for 2025 Week 10: Reading Illich in the Makerspace 1
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 50: Reflections
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 47: Multimodality Pomodoro Fuckboy Workflow Automations
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
books
Weekly Review 1: March 27-April 9, 2023
It’s Easter Sunday and I should be driving to Vancouver to spend two days with family but instead I’m at home on antibiotics. Two weeks ago I had two bridges...
Books I Read in 2022
This started out as a quick list of books I read in 2022. I have notes because I read almost everything on an ereader and highlight and all that gets auto du...
academic services
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
Academic Services as Theatre Productions
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience availab...
barely coherent ideas
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “The Expert System’s Champion”and LLMs as Perspective Simulacra Engines and/or Frankensteinian Sacks of Neural Meat
Like many, I’ve been playing with LLMs over the past two years, and my own understanding of these technologies continues to evolve the more I use them. There...
Academic Services as Theatre Productions
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience availab...
the work
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 39: Attention as Pedagogy
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 34: Knitting Machines, Co-Learning Sessions, and Reconnecting with the Work
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
planning
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 50: Reflections
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 35: Priorities for a new academic year
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
pomodorofuckboy
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 47: Multimodality Pomodoro Fuckboy Workflow Automations
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 46: One month left in the semester panic / / Pomodoro Fuckboy Rabbit Hole
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
ai
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 50: Reflections
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 48: Collaborating with/on AI, domain expertise as a frame, and the rise of bluesky
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
chthulucene
Academic Librarianship in the Chthulucene
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places” (Haraway, 2...
post-secondary
Weekly Reviews 3 and 4 - April 17 - 30, 2023
“I think the meaning of life is to let your heart be broken.” Stephen Levine quoted here
storytelling
Three Challenges for Makerspace Users
I give a talk when classes and other groups visit the Makerspace that is meant to explain what we are, how we can be used, and hopefully makes them feel welc...
2023
WeekNotes for Week 48
Writing this early on a Monday morning. It’s still dark outside but there’s no snow yet in Kamloops. That feels weird to me, but it’s also starting to feel n...
weeknotes
WeekNotes for Week 48
Writing this early on a Monday morning. It’s still dark outside but there’s no snow yet in Kamloops. That feels weird to me, but it’s also starting to feel n...
knitting
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 34: Knitting Machines, Co-Learning Sessions, and Reconnecting with the Work
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
textiles
CrosspostKnitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the Makerspace (Crosspost from TRU Library Makerspace Blog)
Note: this post is cross-posted to the TRU Library Makerspace Blog and the original was posted here: Knitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the...
aiCamera
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 46: One month left in the semester panic / / Pomodoro Fuckboy Rabbit Hole
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
workshops
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 48: Collaborating with/on AI, domain expertise as a frame, and the rise of bluesky
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
tools for conviviality
WeekNotes for 2025 Week 10: Reading Illich in the Makerspace 1
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...