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Floating, diving, and fishing

3 months at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans

6 min readJul 31, 2023

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Low tide with seaweed in the foreground and mountains against a clear blue sky.

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Reflections + 5 lessons learned from 10 years in the public service

“June 27 to July 1 — Irises bloom in the time we’ve had so many meetings that don’t matter, and then that’s all they’ve done for the year…

22 min readMay 5, 2023

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A collage of a girl standing on top of a rocky and floral landscape on the right of the page, looking out at the distant mountains to the left. Clouds and a rainbow are appearing above the rugged peaks.

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Weeknotes: May 23–27 2022

On digital gardening, challenge function, service, inclusion and data ambiguity

5 min readMay 27, 2022

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People of different backgrounds gardening, planting flowers in a window planter together.

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Llamas, leotards, and user research

While there are strategies to doing user research in an Agile environment, they often don’t work, especially in a government context.

14 min readMay 27, 2022

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Drawing of 2 llamas. One is wearing a purple leotard and looks confused. The other one is chewing on a stem of grass and is content.

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Developing an open educational resource repository for the public sector with an inclusive lens

This is a summary, video, and a modified transcript of a talk given at the Open Education Conference in October 2021.

18 min readJan 27, 2022

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A collage that includes a person typing on a laptop from the comfort of their home and a rainbow-like doodle that represents a signal coming from the computer. It indicates how the person is transmitting and sharing information.

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ksenia cheinman

Shaping your schedule

Managing meeting madness

6 min readJan 26, 2022

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A minimalist illustration with a bowl-like dark purple half-circle in the middle. It is filled with pink shapes in a way that is full, yet looks manageable. On the right side of the image frame, there are edges of the same shape that look like 3 bowls stacked one on top of another, all the way to the top of the frame.

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Capacity checks — reflection

Capacity checks can help correct assumptions about workload, centre conversations on helping each other & reflect on how you want to show…

7 min readOct 8, 2021

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Illustration of cups and plates neatly stacked to the side, with some room left at the top.

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How is your team’s capacity?

On a scale of 1 to 6, 1 being “lots of room to help others” to 6 being “burn out approaching”, how do members of your team feel today?

7 min readOct 3, 2021

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Collage of 6 different capacity states represented by a number of dishes and cups that someone has to balance. It starts with an image of a single, orderly cup that is off to the side of an image frame and ends with a messy pile of toppling dishes from both sides of the image frame.

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Open Research: Moving from Disposable to Reusable Research in Government

The core idea behind open government data is a simple one: public data should be a shared resource. It is valuable not only to the…

8 min readApr 25, 2021

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A drawing in red tones with background pattern of minimalist plastic bags floating in the air; in the foreground a reusable bag, collecting some of these 1-time use bags.

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Test d’utilisabilité du prototype de GCpartage — Partie 2

Ce que l’on a découvert et ce que l’on a changé

14 min readMar 17, 2021

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Capture d’écran de la bannière sur la plateforme GCpartage. Main d’une femme qui tape au clavier d’un portable.

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ksenia cheinman

ksenia cheinman

:: digital content specialist — passionate about open learning + inclusion + collaboration + systems + stewardship + learning design + reflective practice ::

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