Found after class on 9/26. If these belong to you, let me know!
Found after class on 9/26. If these belong to you, let me know!
Meet in front of the library as usual — bring your bike & helmet & lock. Weather forecast: warm and sunny, high 70s, moderate breeze from the north. Great biking weather.
We’ll work on these things in class:
TASKS due 9/26:
Post: Your in-class writing about reading from last week. What is a post?
Write: A post about something that happened in class on 9/19. Include an image if possible — photo, drawing, graph or chart, image from the web, etc. Example: this post from Jordan.
Read/Watch (total of 4 things):
Prepare:
Work with your team to create a poster explaining the evidence you’ve collected. Use Powerpoint or Google Slides to create the poster.
On Tuesday, we heard some great team presentations of evidence about the Panhandle area. Links to videos and slides below.
Strengths:
Weaknesses (biggest weak points had to do with delivery, not with content):
TEAM 1: Users of the Shared Path VIDEO SLIDES
TEAM 2: Bike Helmets VIDEO SLIDES
TEAM 3: Pedestrian Path Users VIDEO SLIDES
TEAM 4: Roadway Users VIDEO SLIDES
TEAM 5: Speeds on the Shared Path VIDEO SLIDES
Class slides from 9/19 (look here for homework for 9/26).
This is a guest post from Ettore Crocetti Marzotto, a USF student took “Speaking of Bicycles” last year. He bought a bicycle and has been exploring San Francisco and the surrounding area. Here is a recent report of his explorations:
I went for a ride over Golden Gate Bridge last Sunday. I took my camera and a picnic lunch with me and had a really good time, it was probably the furthest up I went.
This road here was something out of a riding magazine – super fun to go down it! After that I left the main road to head for some trails and eventually ended up high, with a nice view, (the one in the second picture) and had my picnic there.
I find it so incredible that you can just go over the bridge and find such open nature, such a contrast to SF. The only thing that I still have to find, is some good single track downhill though -haha. I thought I share this ride seeing as I had those pictures, really that first shot of the road and the biker, could be in a magazine haha!
In Seattle for a wedding. Here’s a view of San Francisco this morning, with the Bay Bridge People Path in the foreground (aka “the world’s longest bike pier,” because it only includes the east span of the bridge). BTW we’ll ride it this semester.
Seattle has 3 different “stationless” bike share companies (2 depicted above). To get to our seedy motel from the airport, I first took a light rail and then a “LimeBike” (that’s the green and yellow one).
A short video of riding a LimeBike on Seattle’s 27-mile multi-use Burke-Gilman Trail.
I often ask you to write “posts.” There are a couple ways to approach this task, but usually it should take less than 10 or 15 minutes to actually write the post (reading and viewing course material takes longer, of course!).
When you write your post, think about the kind of things you are most likely to read on the internet. You can use posts for this class as a way to practice and apply strategies that will capture the audiences you want to reach.
I set up a “Post” page with some guidelines for writing your posts. But in truth, there’s no one right way to do it, as long as you aim for these goals:
(and you should include an image, picture, graph, drawing, etc.)
We have been invited to present at the California Bicycle Summit in Sacramento in the first week in October!
I need volunteers to attend the conference with me! We’ll drive up on Thursday morning (10/5) and spend the day at the conference. In the evening, there is a dance party at — wait for it — the California State Railroad Museum that evening, but we’ll only stay for that if everyone wants to.
SO this means that you might need to miss a Thursday class, but you get an opportunity to share your ideas with bike advocates from around California!
You don’t have to give a speech or TED talk or anything — we’ll make some posters and share them, kind of as described here:
I am not going to post a video of what a dance party for bike advocates at a railroad museum might look like. It’s not gonna be pretty.
Email me with questions (or post a comment below).
This bike ride features talks by many noted San Francisco area writers, artists, and activists.
Unfortunately, I will be in Seattle for a wedding and will not be able to attend!
In conjunction with the opening of The Commons, a new gathering space at Headlands’ Center for the Arts, the Studio for Urban Projects with Packard Jennings, will host a “pedal-in” to the Headlands campus. The ride will feature a series of talks focused on bicycling as a way of claiming public space from our city streets to our parklands.
Public space is critical to assembling political energy and informing community dialog. Modeled after the “ins” (teach-ins, sit-ins, bike-ins) of the 1960s and the political action they inspired, the day will connect the history of bicycling, the environmental movement, and social protest to contemporary action. It will provoke us to consider the commons as an opportunity for shared action.
I’ve posted the slides from class for Tuesday 9/12 — please review these slides, as they contain information about what to do for next class (September 19).
We’ve been studying the Panhandle, and it turns out other people have been studying it too.
Over the past 100 years, the Panhandle has changed from a parkway for automobiles to a car-free extension of Golden Gate Park. The streets bordering the Panhandle, Fell and Oak, have changed from quiet neighborhood streets to wide, high-speed expressways.
Now there are plans for further changes–but what should those changes be? Like our class, different groups have been trying to collect information that will help us make the best decisions.
Read this post on Streetsblog San Francisco about the controversies that have arisen. Post a comment here — thinking particularly about evidence, how would you address this problem?