Lore

What I am learning in public

Reflections, experiments, stories, technical notes, and ideas I am learning through teaching, engineering, making, and community.

The course side of Technology Commons is where I teach. Lore is the learning side: what I am learning, testing, remembering, questioning, and carrying forward.

Teaching and learning are reciprocal. Ideas developed in class can become questions worth investigating, and things I learn through research, engineering, history, community, or reflection can come back into the classroom in a better form.

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From a University Sketch to a Logo and Commons Emblem

A personal mark can stay simple while a larger identity carries more of the story

6 min read

How an AA mark I made in university evolved with me as an educator, then expanded through many experiments into the current Technology Commons emblem.

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N.I.C.E. Design

Redesigning the Design Process

3 min read

Why I wanted a simpler design process for technology education, and why evaluation should send us back to the needs.

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