To date I have logged over 13 hours of IDS time. Most of that was spent researching glass, glass recycling and glass creation. The rest was spread between creating the first (and only) weekly update and compiling a list of 25 uses for recycled glass, including pipe-bedding, back-fill, ‘glassphalt’, countertops, you name it! Glass is even used in bricks and insulation.
It turns out this commercial glass-recycling issue is being explored right here in Vancouver. My Dad was contacted by Smithrite, who was poking around, seeing what companies were interested in participating in a glass-recycling program. However, there isn’t any system like this currently in existence, Smithrite was simply putting forward an idea which a company in partnership with them was considering the merits of. So far, I have not been able to contact them. Nexcycle industries in Waterloo ON once instituted a tempered glass recycling program but it became to expensive to maintain, and so dropped it.
Almost finished the Background research on Commercial glass recycling!
Today I spent 105min doing background research on low-e coatings and Flourine.
Today we finally finished the SS10 Enduring Understandings and submitted it on a wiki. We also had to do an in-class essay on one of the questions. Took me forever, but great job SCK!
The end is in sight. There remains less and less to be done. All that’s left is a bit more proof-reading and then the grand entrance into the wiki.
We’ve been doing more reformatting and proof-reading just a few more sections to go!
Today we finished the last section! We even started incorporating it into a wiki before stopping for the day. We’re nearly there!
As of today, we are about 90% through our inquiry. Four sections complete and one is in progress. Once we finish this section, we are planning on creating a more organized wiki as a demonstration of our understanding.
We finished section 3 of the ‘Enduring Questions’ worksheet today. Just two more left!
Today we added some work I’d done on Friday in section 3 of the Socials 10 Enduring Questions. We also completed section 2. Tomorrow I hope to finish section 3.