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Handwriting with Apple Pencil on iPad Pro for academic work.
I bought an Ipad Pro last year because I wanted to hand-annotate the many, many .PDFs of journal articles that I am reading this year. I think better when I write on things. With handwriting. But I did...
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What is kindness? Update on libraries and kindness …
I am writing, writing, writing, reading, researching, writing about kindness and libraries as I finish my candidacy for my PhD. (and procrastinating by blogging…) I owe Fiona Bradley a few posts...
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DHDownunder2018: Kindness in English novels in Project Gutenberg and scary...
I am attending the Digital Humanities Downunder Summer School at the University of Sydney this week. I have been playing with R in the afternoons and using Python to play with some distant reading...
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Eat my garden 1. Almonds and nasturtiums. Blogjune 2019/4
The almond tree was planted about 18 years ago for the kids to climb. The blossom is beautiful in the spring, lasting about a fortnight from first bud to over. It fruits plentifully, but I have never...
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Learning so that I teach better Blogjune 2019/5
To improve my teaching, every year I try to take a class unfamiliar enough that I am back at “beginner’s mind” and experience the frustrations of being a new learner. I want to capture how my students...
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Eat my garden 2. Blueberries and marigolds. Blogjune 2019/6
Dwarf blueberry bushes – “Sunshine Blue”. Blueberries require another compatible plant to cross-pollinate. I am not sure why I planted two of the same variety. It would make more sense to have a...
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PhD notetaking workflow – PDF to Zotero to Zotfile to Dropbox to GoodNotes to...
I haven’t worn eyeshadow for probably 30 years. So you won’t find me spending any time revamping my eye makeup, evaluating and buying different cosmetics to try or watching YouTube movies of hints and...
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Eat my garden 3. Feijoas. Blogjune 2019/8
New Zealanders who visit get very excited over the feijoas – also known as pineapple guavas. Apparently they are part of many N. Z. childhoods? I would like to say I feel the same way about the fruit…...
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Sources of professional reading Blogjune 2019/9
Penny has mentioned that she would like to keep up with professional reading as a way of keeping up her learning mojo. Unless my professional reading is shoved under my nose as part of my workflow, I...
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Eat my garden 4. Rose. Blogjune 2019/10
I have four varieties of rose. Sylvia was planted for my mother after she died, and blooms every year on the anniversary of her death. “Best Friends”, pictured here, was a gift from a friend when I...
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Where have all the bloggers gone? Blogjune 2019/11
I started using Feedly to read RSS feeds again during Blogjune around 2015 I think. I still use it for feeds of the ABC Just In stories and the Conversation each night, but not a lot more. Each...
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Eat my garden 5. Dwarf lemon. Blogjune 2019/12
My garden is actually very small, so about five years ago I gave up on regular species of trees and started with the dwarf varieties. This dwarf lemon is around four years old, and treated very badly...
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Kindness and UX. What do I know? Blogjune 2019/13
…quite a bit less than I will by the time 23 August comes around… Today I found out that I have a paper accepted for the VALA: Libraries, Technology and the Future 2020 conference, being held 11-13...
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Eat my garden 6. Olive, grapes and mandarine. Blogjune 2019/14
This is WHY I changed to dwarf fruit trees. The mandarine and olive provide a lovely welcome home drive, but are kept to manageable dimensions by rather frequent pruning. It is difficult to see in the...
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Six word post Blogjune 2019/15
Response to Fiona’s six word post. Topics 2019, T. (2019). cheating [Photo]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/146269332@N03/47421984131/ . Creative Commons 2.0 License No related posts.
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Eat my garden 7. Bay, parsley, cornflower, eau de cologne mint. Blogjune 2019/16
The bay tree is a “Baby Bay” variety and also kept dwarf by the pot size – otherwise it would be a full-blown laurel tree and 7 metres tall. Bay leaves for soup and stews. The parsley is all over the...
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Mimicry and learning Blogjune 2019/17
I spent all day Sunday at a stone carving workshop … carving stone. All a lot of fun until the head fell off! Due to a fault in the Hebel block, apparently, so I came home with a headless statue AND a...
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Eat my garden 8. Grapes. Hibiscus. Blogjune 2019/18
The grape pergola forms an extra green room in summer time, then lets sunshine into my office on Winter days. Grapes on top and down the sides, hibiscus to the north. Both pruned back to almost...
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Feedback for experts and novices. Blogjune 2019/19
It’s still marking season. Every semester, around this time, I write the same thing over and over and over. It is very, very challenging to write feedback, not knowing whether this small, seemingly...
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Eat my garden 9. Rosemary, lemon verbena, dwarf apple, rose, oregano, thyme,...
The rosemary in the foreground is growing where I originally planted a dwarf nectarine and a dwarf peach. They didn’t really thrive, and then the fruit-fly stung all their fruit… so they were donated...
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