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This week I decided to try something sweet and easy. It has been a while since I made some brownies and I thought that would be the perfect after dinner snack. I found a recipe that claimed to be the … Read More

Making assignments and lesson plans look clean and streamlined is something I care deeply about. Visual aesthetic is one of the things people take in first when they look at a project. One way that I found that is a … Read More

Since it was so busy this thanksgiving weekend I decided to forgo the homemade donuts and instead make something with the ingredients I had in the house to avoid the chaos of grocery stores. I remembered one of my favourite … Read More

My favourite part of this week was learning the use chrome extension Hypothesis. I found it such a useful and simple resource that filled a empty niche. Before I get ahead of myself and get carried away just praising the … Read More

Here is a preview of what is to come, also me showing HP5

A friend of mine recently posted some pictures of a batch of homemade bagels she made. Me being the bagel lover I am knew that I had to try to replicate her success. I asked her to send over the … Read More

I was reminded of how creative licensing affects creativity when watching the documentary, “The Remix Manifesto”. In my own life I am a producer and musician who very often runs into this problem of intellectual property. The idea that someone can … Read More

For a while I have really wanted to get into baking. My goal during the months of quarantine has been to make my own sourdough loaf from scratch but I never got around to it. All of my life I … Read More

As educators, we are gardeners not engineers

While watching the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed” I was struck with this idea that keeps popping up throughout education courses. The idea that schooling and education needing a revamp seems to be a common theme. The documentary brings attention … Read More