Welcome to a new semester in the media lab, room 207A. Communication Technology and Applied Journalism (AKA The YEARBOOK Course) will be held here. This room will be an incubator for experimenting with new appraoches to communication and creative expression. I am looking forward to a semester that is interesting, challenging and productive and maybe sometimes a bit strange (and hopefully a bit fun, too). i LOVE to see students being creative and spreading their wings; so, please, jump right in and try some new ways of communicating your ideas in my classes. You can email me any time, about anything at all, at cheryl.gould@tcdsb.org.

Ms Lo Bianco and I took our grade 12s to tour an old-fashioned (but still operating) publishing house called Coach House Books, located in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood. A very interesting and educational experience, and the good folks at Coach House Books offer this experience for free. We were all fascinated and charmed by the old building and the antique (and modern) printing machinery.

We then stopped for lunch in Kensington Market. Or that was the plan, anyway. The teachers had lunch in Kensington Market and most of the students ran all the way down to Queen and Spadina for McDonald's! Old habits die hard, I guess.

Then we stopped in to MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) to check out their CONTACT Photography Festival exhibit. We had a terrific host there, a young man with lots of knowledge to share about the work and the photographers represented. After he guided us through the exhibit we wandered back to school.

The following photos are my digital photo creations, based on images I captured during this excursion.