Comments on: CCK08: Week 10 Wild Flower Garden http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jenni http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/#comment-94 Jenni Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:43:55 +0000 http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-94 Hi Keith Your garden is beautiful. I live in the city (Perth) so my garden is very small...but my front yard is predominently natives - which I love. I haven't been into the course for the past 4 weeks as we've given our backyard a total makeover. So your blog led me to read some really interesting struff. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Jenni Hi Keith
Your garden is beautiful. I live in the city (Perth) so my garden is very small…but my front yard is predominently natives – which I love.
I haven’t been into the course for the past 4 weeks as we’ve given our backyard a total makeover. So your blog led me to read some really interesting struff. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Jenni

]]> By: jennymackness http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/#comment-93 jennymackness Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:35:47 +0000 http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-93 Hello Keith, I have been meaning to come back to this post since last week. I echo all the comments that have gone before and I particularly like your photos of your beautiful wild flower garden. Gardening is such a good metaphor for teaching and learning, as a gardener only fools himself if he thinks he can control what happens in his garden. Thanks for pulling everything together for us. Jenny Hello Keith,

I have been meaning to come back to this post since last week. I echo all the comments that have gone before and I particularly like your photos of your beautiful wild flower garden.

Gardening is such a good metaphor for teaching and learning, as a gardener only fools himself if he thinks he can control what happens in his garden. Thanks for pulling everything together for us.

Jenny

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]]> By: Frances Bell http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/#comment-89 Frances Bell Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:08:17 +0000 http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-89 Keith, Thanks so much - I loved your post for two reasons. First, that is so good at weaving together the contributions of others (highlighting to me a few that I had missed). And secondly, that it used the metaphor of gardens and wildflowers. Gardens and gardeners are diverse in their existence and approaches. A well-known UK gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, defined a weed as a plant that is growing in the wrong place so some gardeners would see your lone ox-eye daisy as a weed, others as a delight. Here is one of my posts with my use of that metaphor (and a piccie of my garden) http://francesbell.com/2008/06/02/walled-gardens-and-the-illusion-of-control/ I am guessing that you are a plantsman Keith who uses serendipity and nudging as a means of 'designing' your garden as opposed to a top-down, structure first designer. Maybe I am projecting my own 'plants first' approach onto you - do tell! Keith,
Thanks so much – I loved your post for two reasons. First, that is so good at weaving together the contributions of others (highlighting to me a few that I had missed).
And secondly, that it used the metaphor of gardens and wildflowers. Gardens and gardeners are diverse in their existence and approaches. A well-known UK gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, defined a weed as a plant that is growing in the wrong place so some gardeners would see your lone ox-eye daisy as a weed, others as a delight. Here is one of my posts with my use of that metaphor (and a piccie of my garden) http://francesbell.com/2008/06/02/walled-gardens-and-the-illusion-of-control/
I am guessing that you are a plantsman Keith who uses serendipity and nudging as a means of ‘designing’ your garden as opposed to a top-down, structure first designer. Maybe I am projecting my own ‘plants first’ approach onto you – do tell!

]]> By: Lani http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/#comment-87 Lani Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:37:08 +0000 http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-87 Hi Keith, Thank you so much for sharing the photos from your beautiful garden! I enjoyed them so much especially since our gardens have been put to bed for the winter, the leaves are all down and we're expecting up to 10 inches of snow by Monday. And thank you also for your walk through this week in cck008; your connections, despite the lure of the summer days, were so inclusive and helpful. My aggregator had technical difficulties for two days and I came looking for your post and found all the others I had missed too. Best, Lani Hi Keith,

Thank you so much for sharing the photos from your beautiful garden! I enjoyed them so much especially since our gardens have been put to bed for the winter, the leaves are all down and we’re expecting up to 10 inches of snow by Monday.

And thank you also for your walk through this week in cck008; your connections, despite the lure of the summer days, were so inclusive and helpful. My aggregator had technical difficulties for two days and I came looking for your post and found all the others I had missed too.

Best,
Lani

]]> By: ctscho http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/cck08-week-10-wild-flower-garden/#comment-86 ctscho Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:34:08 +0000 http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-86 Hi Keith, I was just thinking about how CCK08 might "live on" in digital history (or infamy:-)) as both a model and as an artifact/ collection of artifacts. In research, I have always greatly appreciated those wise people of the past who managed to, with a great deal of time and attention, collate dispersed bits of information and provide overviews, like the local historians who self-published smudgy, mimeographed town histories and those pre-digital folks who paged through local newspapers, taking notes in crabbed handwriting on little cards to create indices. It seems to me that in addition to giving us a sense of connectivism in action, your posts will serve that "archival" purpose for the researchers of the future. (And just think, our CCK work might someday be considered quaint:-)) Carmen Hi Keith,
I was just thinking about how CCK08 might “live on” in digital history (or infamy:-)) as both a model and as an artifact/ collection of artifacts. In research, I have always greatly appreciated those wise people of the past who managed to, with a great deal of time and attention, collate dispersed bits of information and provide overviews, like the local historians who self-published smudgy, mimeographed town histories and those pre-digital folks who paged through local newspapers, taking notes in crabbed handwriting on little cards to create indices. It seems to me that in addition to giving us a sense of connectivism in action, your posts will serve that “archival” purpose for the researchers of the future. (And just think, our CCK work might someday be considered quaint:-))

Carmen

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