Shannon Chance, Kitty Lee Layman, and Patty Asplund after the Love-Hungry Farmer.
A drizzly day in Dublin….
Reflection in Bakery Window on Lower Baggot Street. (Copyright Shannon Chance 2013.)
Dave’s been hard at work with renovating his new studio. It’s going be used for business activities today, so he had to get the project to an adequate level of readiness. Still lots to do, but it’s looking great!
Here’s what his wall framing and floor moving projects look like:
Wall with rigid insulation and furring.
Wall with electric lines, batt insulation, and wall board.
Wall to the right taped for spackle and painting.
Floor moved for today’s auditions.
A very interesting map by “Bold & Noble” that was posted on the Only in Ireland Facebook page.
Dublin neighborhoods. (Downloaded from Only in Ireland‘s Facebook page.)
Just down the street from Notre Dame’s O’Connell House, the DIT has its Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC). The LTTC is housed in a building to the left in the photo below:
Upper Mount Street, home of DIT’s Leaning, Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC).
The DIT has a fabulous and unique policy that every newly hired faculty member must complete a certificate program in Learning and Teaching in the first two years of employment at DIT. Their teachers actually study how to teach. Part of what I’ve been doing here is researching outcomes of this policy and of the LTTC’s work.
The LTTC has contributed in incredibly valuable ways to the learning that goes on at DIT as well as in Institutes of Technology all across Ireland (there are 14 in all, and DIT is the flagship among them). You can read about professional development programs in these Institutes in a (free) book by Fitzpatrick and Harvey called Designing Together.
In fact, I’ll be teaching a course in May at the LTTC. It’s about using PBL (as in hands-on, group-based, project-driven approaches to teaching) and it’s for people who teach at the college level. I’ll post more information about the course content soon.
I’ve included some photos from my recent visit to the LTTC to work on planning the class.
Tonight you get the answer key… but see if you can’t match at least some of them first!
Or, if you’re really good… go to the bottom images, cover the names, and guess the name looking at the map. Bet you don’t get many right that way this round!
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Who ordered this weather?
Wow! What a day!
It’s my birthday; the 43rd one of my life. Besides the weather, great things happened!
#1) I awoke to great news: I’d been invited to review a manuscript for a special edition of JEE (a different edition than the one we’ve written for). I’m hoping this is a good sign. Apparently the editors though I was sufficiently competent to be part of their rigorous peer-review process.
#2) My aunt Kitty Lee and her friend Patty Asplund arrived fresh off the plane. This is the first day Kitty has ever spent outside North America!!!
Shannon, Kitty Lee, and Patty.
#3) Mom woke up in the middle of the night (Pennsylvania time) to call and wish me a happy day.
#4) I put Kitty Lee and Patty on the hop-on hop-off bus and headed for sushi with my colleagues. Little did I know they’d planned a birthday lunch. Sima *baked* a gluten-free cake using truffles, chestnut flour, butter, and cream. Amazing!!!! The sushi was awesome too.
#5) My replacement bank card finally arrived. YAY!!!!
#6) I visited the former House of Parliament (now owned by the Bank of Ireland, a long story that I’ll save for another day).
I got a fabulous tour of the most historic room by Phillip and Jeremy. I’ll return again to learn more from John and Sean. And Jeremy will copy some information for me to pick up. While I was there, I met a group from Northern Ireland. They’d all been police (some representing loyalists and some representing nationalists — in other words, on both sides). In any case, they’d have been the ones “keeping the peace” while the men I met in the Cobblestone were out in the past *not* “keeping the peace.”
William of Orange
Phillip told me the stories depicted on the tapestries hanging in the hall. The victor of the story was William of Orange. Three years after the event depicted, King William and his wife (Queen Mary) chartered the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Where I earned my PhD! Philip said that Mary was much more important in all that than William. I said that’s why we have t-shirts that say, “Mary and William.”
#7) The bus was right there when I stepped out of the Bank, ready to whisk me back to my apartment.
#8) The post had safely delivered birthday cards and a package from each of parents (my Mom, and my Dad and Step-Mom). It’s wonderful to be remembered.
#9) I got word that our photo show is on! The title is
Inter-changes: Interpretations of Ireland by Three VirginiansPhotographs by US Fulbright Scholar Shannon Chance, Dave Chance & Glen McClure
#10) Kitty and Patty have sweet-talked the hop-on bus driver into delivering them to my doorstep. I am telling you: Patty is a charmer!!!! She’s a seasoned traveller — and a former missionary — who has a way of touching people’s souls. I’m glad she’s here to help Kitty Lee learn the traveling ropes!
We’ll be out for #11 soon! I’ll let you know how it goes (they are likely to crash soon…).
I’ve got an exhibition of reflection photographs in the works for spring. It’s to occur during May at Notre Dame’s O’Connell House on St. Stephen’s Green. Tuesday, I met to plan with Notre Dame’s Lisa Caulfield and Joseph Stranix as well as Fulbright’s Joanne Davidson. I showed them some examples of my work and, thankfully, got enthusiastic response. 🙂
It’s a big, beautiful space and I look forward to filling it with images. It’s so much space, in fact, that I am hoping to include my two favorite photographers in the show. (I’m seeking final approval for that.) I’ll keep you posted as plans progress.
It’s a gorgeous space, and I though you might enjoy seeing it pre-show:
Maps from yesterday and today:
Thought I’d share some random images from a walk I took in Dublin (from Smithfield to Kildare Street) with Amanda Bernhard.
Ireland by Chance 