Fieldcraft 1/31

Hi everyone--

Forecasts call for dangerously cold weather on Wednesday, so we will probably NOT be drawing trees outside. I had planned to give you one free class day in exchange for the weekend field trip, so this may be the one. Stay tuned for further updates.

Community and Sustainability 1/31

Hi everyone--tomorrow's weather predictions are for dangerously cold temperatures, so we will NOT be riding our bikes after the book discussion. I had planned to show you some community issues for further discussion, but we'll postpone this until a later date.

Instead, I'm hoping I can set up a podcast for us to listen to generate some discussion on community.

See you in the classroom. Stay warm.

Community and Sustainability 1/28

Here's a thought for a project: create a pocket-sized bike route map of Lubbock that you can carry on a bike.

Fieldcraft 1/26

Find 5 birds that would be here in LBB this time of year (use your field guides). Find photos of each and draw them.

Meet next week at the top of the hill at Urbanovsky Park. Bring your art kit. We will be drawing trees.

Community and Sustainability 1/26

Meet next week in the classroom (304 ENGL). We will discuss the first three chapters of the AVM by Kingsolver. We will also discuss your project.

Bring your bikes and get ready to ride. Dress for the weather.

fieldcraft 1/26

Greetings everyone. Today we'll be learning to draw birds, so dress for cold in case we decide to tough it out in the real, outside world.

Bring your binoculars and art kits.

Community and Sustainability

Don't forget that we are meeting at the Outdoor Pursuits Center at the Student Rec for class tomorrow. Bring your bikes if you have them. We may practice on yours.

I'd also like to reserve a few minutes at the end of class to talk about your projects, so have them in mind.

Finally, tomorrow I will be giving the first reading assignment, so if you don't already have the book, get on that task, toot sweet.

Fieldcraft: 1/20

Record your thoughts about the days we spent in the field. What were your impressions? What did you learn that was new? How does it compare to what you thought you knew aobut this place?

Also: add the metric and inches scales and Beaufort scale to your journal. I'll be sending you an email attachment with the Beuafort scale.

Community and Sustainability (CS) 1/20

Here's is the udpated schedule of due dates:

Experiment/online journal proposal due: January 25
Experiment/online journal begins: February 1

Proposal, paper one due: February 8
Draft one, paper one due: March 1
Final draft paper one due: March 22

Proposal, paper two due: March 29
Draft one, paper two due: April 19
Final draft, paper two due: May 3

Fieldcraft 1/18

We will meet tomorrow at LLL. It will be in the 60's but windy, so expect to be cooler than you'd expect for those temperatures.

Bring your art kits, binoculars and field guide to the birds.

Homework due: 3 drawings of birds you do not know and identify them. The collecting of field notebooks will start next Tuesday (1/23).

I may ride my bike out to LLL tomorrow; because of the wind, I'll probably leave around 1:30. If you'd like to join up and form a group, email me and let me know so that I'll wait for you. I'll leave from the front of the Honors College.

Fieldcraft 1/11

We are confirmed for LLL tomorrow. Go inside to the front desk and wait there for everyone.

Fieldcraft 1/10

Greetings everyone! Normally, NHH 1302 (Introductory Fieldcraft) will meet at Lubbock Lake Landmark, at 2:15 (to give everyone time to get there from campus). However, it looks like Wednesday will be very, very cold, so I want to check with the Landmark people to make sure there will be a classroom open for us so that we can stay inside for most of the class period. There will be a short period when we will be outside working with our binoculars, so please DRESS WARMLY.


A map to the Landmark can be found here: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/lll/location.html
I will send out an email tomorrow and post more info on the teaching blog letting everyone know where we will be meeting.
Cheers! And bundle up!