This is a little self-promotion.

I turn to relax, to quiet the sometimes overwhelming noise in my mind. Through this, yes I have improved my mental health, but I have also accumulated a lot of bowls and other objects. I'd like to show you a selection of them and if you you're interested sell one to you. It's the first time I've tried this.

I'll be at the #UVic #UnitedWay Artisans Market on Wednesday from 12:00 to 18:00 along with about 40 other local craftspeople.

https://events.uvic.ca/event/102286-uvic-united-way-artisans-market

My site: https://scribili.ca/wt/

The fee I paid for the table at the fair goes to the United Way, and I am donating a large bowl to the raffle to help to raise even more.

#Woodturning #VictoriaBC #Saanich

I just told the class, “Tell me when I can help you with reproduction.” It was one of those moments when you realise what you said when it's too late.

We play a fisheries management game in the course I teach. In the game the student have a little fishery (coloured wooden tokens) and can each take different numbers as their harvest. At the end of the season the fish reproduce.

#UVic #teaching

Art 365/321: UVic crow friend - from a photograph my daughter texted me.

#art365 #watercolour #crow #crowvember #ink #UVic

In our third video from the University of Victoria, we use a new protected bike lane on Gabriola Road between CARSA and the underground bike parking at the Campus Bike Centre. #yyjbike #biketooter #UVic #bikelanes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNVGk11bd4

I'm teaching a lab about micro-plastic pollution (we separate fibres from beach sand and count them under a microscope). The students have to think about sources so laundry grey water comes up. I had to show them Mr Floatie.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3429492/sewage-success-means-mr-floatie-can-be-flushed/

#VIctoriaBC #UVic

Three new bowls from garry oak and honey locust. #Saanich #Woodturning

I'm challenging myself by venturing out in public. I'll be at the #UVic artisans market on 26 November. I'll be happy to exchange your cash for a round wooden object.

I'm donating a bowl to the raffle as well. Table fees and raffle tickets go to the #UnitedWay in #VictoriaBC

"[D]o students using AI tools actually learn more? Early results — as yet unpublished — have raised some red flags. Wang and his colleagues found that students who use an AI tutor often score higher in tests immediately after a class than do those who don’t use the agent. But two to three weeks later, the AI users scored lower than their peers. “Students might have a false sense of understanding,”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03340-w

#AI #HigherEd #UVic

By the way, if you’d like to see all of my month in a minute sky videos, they are on the YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05moi80mgak&list=PL7GWlhHCdfD-vs7EasGlx8ulmp5TsXUmp

#VictoriaBC #UVic