This past week has been a week of action — we are finally beginning to use the tools we have been learning about for the past few months! In lab this week, each group decided on an object of concern to research. My group decided to focus on “wilderness,” which is the object associated with the Federation […]
Generational Perceptions of Wilderness
In creating our framing questions, focus questions, and potential tools for analysis, we ran into several roadblocks. We started by trying to craft our framing question and became stuck in the object of wilderness and connecting it to our greater project as a whole. When we approached the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs website, we […]
Organizations and Objects Lab
Lab Group: Myles Bridgewater-Jackman, AnaCapri Mauro, Kara Scherer General Background For this lab, each group was assigned two organizations by the ENVS Steering Committee. Our group was assigned to research Portland General Electric, Portland’s main source of energy, and Sustainable Northwest, a nonprofit dedicated to maintain economic and ecological health in rural Oregon. After researching […]
Breaking Down Qualitative Analysis
After weeks of gaining new tools to do extensive quantitative analysis, we finally focused our efforts on methods to perform qualitative analysis. Although we discussed it extensively in class, Jim purposefully never told us specifically how to do qualitative analysis. His reasoning behind that was that there is no specific way to perform qualitative analysis; […]
Place-Based Education 2.0: Editing my Concentration
After receiving the first round of feedback on my concentration from Jim and Jessica, I realized I would need to make some major edits. In my first proposal I made a bunch of generalizations and assumptions in order to make my point — I can now look back and realize that I was drawing on […]
Join me on a Tour of my Global Summer!
Come join me on a GoogleTour of my summer! This summer I traveled to Southern California, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Take a look at my tour to see some photos I took while abroad, and learn a bit more about each place by clicking on the hyperlinks. Enjoy!