Pedometer Readings - 6

Over six weeks the 19 students walked a total of 7,414,931 steps.

This week, each day the average number of steps walked by students was 10,249 steps.

A Walk Through Downtown Berlin, 1912

Pedometer Readings - 5

Over five weeks the 19 students walked a total of 6,267,084 steps.

Each day the average number of steps walked by students was 10,255 steps.

Pedometer Readings - 4

Over four weeks the 19 students walked a total of 5,186,511 steps.

Each day the average number of steps walked by students was 10,458 steps.

Nature Hike to 'rare'

The blue line represents the route followed by the class through the 'rare' property near Blair, Ontario.  It was recorded by a Garmin GPS device and later uploaded to Google Earth.

The image on the right is a cross-sectional profile of elevation along the route shown above.  The trail is approximately 4 kilometres in length with an average elevation of 275 metres above sea level, ranging from a minimum of 268 metres a.s.l. to 283 metres a.s.l.

Reflection 2

For this second reflection I want you think and write about your experience on the walk with Dr. Milne through the rare property.  To help guide your reflections draw on the discoveries you recorded in the journal entry format.  (Note that you are not asked to submit a journal entry but rather a reflection.)  In considering your experience identify 5 things you already knew, and five things you didn’t know before the walk and how you learned them.  As further stimulus for your reflection consider the appropriateness on this occasion of the poem ‘Nutting’ by William Wordsworth.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nutting/

As well as submitting your reflections on MyLS, also please bring a copy to class on Thursday and we will have a roundtable discussion of the walk.

Finally, you can ignore for now the reading listed on the course outline for this week, i.e. de Certeau,1984.  We will look at that later.

Journal 1 - Sensory Descriptors

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This is a word cloud of the main sensory perceptions identified by students on their first walk.  The descriptors were extracted from the 3894 words that they wrote in their journal entries.

Pedometer Readings - 3

Over three weeks the 19 students walked a total of 4,098,332 steps.

Each day the average number of steps walked by students was 10,896 steps.