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I’ve been fortunate to encounter Brian Ennis in SW9 many times now. He and I have spent many hours discussing our enduring Irishness, as well as all kinds of interesting inroads into teaching and learning. He also offered to school me on the machine lathe and I jumped at the chance. My notes from this […]
(Sept, 2022) The Therapeutic Benefits Of Wood Carving https://thespooncrank.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-wood-carving/➡️ A Phenomenological Study of the Therapeutic Benefits of Woodcarving By Jenny Rudell; Graeme Hamilton is working in Technical Studies and Counselling at Oak Bay Secondary School in Victoria, Canada. His master’s thesis from the Simon Fraser University is called A phenomenological study of the therapeutic benefits of woodcarving As I talked […]
Header image: See Google Knowledge Panels David Pye was trained to be an architect of wooden buildings, but after a few years in the field the Second World War propelled him into the Navy, kindling a lifelong interest in ships and naval architecture. He then taught for twenty-six years at the Royal College of Art […]
Header image: Google maps This page is to record my time and learning in and around SW9 at the British Columbia Institute of Technology April 22, 2024: Bowl 1 – “Roy’s bowl” The wonderful Rory Brown offered to give me a few hours of instruction on the wood lathe and I jumped at the chance.➡ […]
(May 6, 2024) Maybe Even Build a Boat: Rediscovering the lessons of craft https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/maybe-even-build-a-boat “Objectives are likely to be much more effective if teachers conceptualize what students might and ought to know, feel, and do at the end of a lesson rather than the beginning”. Petrina, S. (2007). Advanced teaching methods for the technology classroom. Information Science Publishing. https://blogs.ubc.ca/dandt/files/2014/07/Petrina2007.pdf […]
Header image: KF personal photo I am really excited that I got a spot on this year’s Student Machine Shop (SMS) course: https://sms-course.phas.ubc.ca/ I applied for the last two years but there weren’t enough slots and priority is given to those in Physics & Astronomy. I’m going to use this page as a wee record of […]