Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Trust me, I’m a doctor

Posted on 24th June 2021 by NomadWarMachine

On Monday I passed my PhD viva. This thesis has been a long time cooking – I began on Jan 7th 2013, took a year out due to ill health, had two changes of thesis title and lost three supervisors … Continue reading →

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Unwrapping the Fun in Assessment & Feedback

Posted on 30th May 2021 by NomadWarMachine

A podcast recorded on December 2020 when I talk a lot about assessment, feedback and participatory learning

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Pandemic Postcards

Posted on 23rd May 2021 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve been thinking about sending some postcards recently, but not having a theme in mind to motivate my doodling, so this tweet from Karen was just the prompt I needed. Today’s been a dreich day, so while I’ve been watching … Continue reading →

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Strontian

Posted on 16th May 2021 by NomadWarMachine

As travel restrictions lofted, we were so happy to be able to travel up to the Highlands again. As usual, we stopped at Inveruglas to stretch our legs. We were surprised to see show on the top of the mountain. … Continue reading →

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Line of Thought-une Teller

Posted on 28th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Another line of flight from the lines of thought. As I was playing around with papier mache for the plate, I remembered the flippy clicky things we used to make when we were children – a bit of thinking and … Continue reading →

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Lines of Thought

Posted on 27th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

It started with a tweet It became a Daily Create T.S. Eliot wrote in his poem The Waste Land ‘You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images…’. Add your line of thought to this Shared … Continue reading →

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Collective Hope

Posted on 26th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Some collaborations keep giving and giving, making me smile and giving me hope. Last year some of us put together a calendar on the theme of hope – pictures we had drawn, photos we had taken, words we had written. … Continue reading →

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Spring

Posted on 31st March 2021 by NomadWarMachine
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Permission to have fun

Posted on 20th February 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Fish flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I was told this week that we’re only meant to be doing work that is essential. Now, if this is true, then I know that it’s being said … Continue reading →

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What would Wittgenstein think of remix?

Posted on 15th February 2021 by NomadWarMachine

We were playing a game at the weekend, which Kevin started. We answered by making an acrostic of the word we guessed until we got it right Then Wendy put her twist on it. Different game, different rules. Obviously related … Continue reading →

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