I decided to make a heart shape using dead grass I found in the pasture. Originally, I wanted to braid it into a heart shape, but that did not work very well. My grandma came up with the idea to tie it together with some twine instead and it worked really well! Since my grandma helped me make this, I thought a lot about how much crafting I would do with her as a young child. My grandma is an…
Below is the script I wrote for my FlipGrid video on my Dominant Narratives Presentation for ECS 110. The full video will be uploaded soon! Script Hello ECS 110! I hope you are all doing wonderful today and staying safe and healthy. My group’s dominant narrative is ‘That women are emotionally weaker than men’. In my portion of our presentation I will be introducing two counter-narratives to the dominant narrative. The first one is that women are just as emotionally…
For my Journey Towards Reconciliation project I was asked to do an aesthetic and written response. Aesthetic Response For my Aesthetic response I decided to do an acrylic painting. The white bird represents European colonizers and the red bird represents Indigenous people. The branch is the sociological divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada that has been put in place by colonial culture. In the painting the white bird is allowed to be free and achieve anything, they are…
If you were to walk into a grade 8 classroom today, you would be greeted with thirty pre-teens doing TikTok dances at what seems to be random and inappropriate moments. What you might not know is that this is a product of participatory culture. As a result of the internet becoming a central component of our lives, a new type of culture has arisen: participatory culture. In Michael Welsch’s lecture, “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”, Wesch discusses how instead of…
This week I wanted to bake something that was beyond my skill set. After some internet searching, I came across this video on how to make a checkerboard cake. I decided to take some liberty in a few things in order to work with the ingredients I already had. Recipe Cake I used Duncan Hines French Vanilla Cake Mix. I only used one box. Ingredients 1 Cup Water (I used almond milk instead because my mother-in-law said it tastes really…
This week I wanted to bake a recipe that was popularized by the internet. After doing a quick google search I found Bon Appetit’s recipe for Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Shortbread. Recipe Ingredients 2 1/4 Sticks Cold Salted Butter (Cut into 1/2 in.pieces) 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar 1/4 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract 1 1/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour 6 Ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate Demerara Sugar (for rolling) Flaky Sea Salt Instructions Using an electric mixer and a…
This week my goal was to bake something with an experienced baker. The best baker/cook I know is my mother-in-law. I texted her and we planned a day for me to come visit her. When I asked her what her favorite thing to make is, she said carrot cake; so we made carrot cake! Recipe Cake Ingredients 2 Cups Brown Sugar (Packed) 4 Eggs 2 Cups Flour 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 1 1/2 Cups Canola Oil 3 Cups Raw Grated…
I have fairly limited experience with Twitter and have not used it much. In high school, I managed the SRC Twitter account, but that is as far as my experience goes prior to being a part of EDTC 300. Twitter in The Classroom Prior to this class, I never considered Twitter to be useful as a classroom tool. However, after using it as a resource for this class I have reconsidered. After a class discussion, I went to everyone’s best…
This week my goal was to bake something that I am familiar with to adequately gage my current skills set. The first thing that came to mind was to make my great-grandma’s apple pie. My Inspiration While growing up, every August the women in my family would go to the farm for the weekend to make pies and do some canning. It was always a really special experience for me and I hold onto those memories. In the weekend we…
The Importance of Place The idea that place is of importance is not a new concept to me. As a child, the importance of place was taught to me by my family. This value was introduced to me through our experiences at the family farm. My family’s farm is a place that means a lot to me. In the mid-1920s, my great-great-grandparents bought the land after immigrating to Canada from Norway, and right now, the farm is owned by my…