Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Learning Technology Cats

Posted on 21st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

The problem with learning technology as a specialism is that there are not enough cats involved. Oh, sure, some of us have cats and most of us enjoy watching them on the interwebz, but we don’t get them involved enough … Continue reading →

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A puzzle

Posted on 19th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve no idea what I am meant to be doing. Not that there’s anything new about that, but for this task in particular I feel as if I have come in at the middle of a conversation and there’s a … Continue reading →

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Piles of tyres

Posted on 14th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

According to the CLMOOC week 4 Make Cycle 4 email a pile of tyres is just a pile of tyres and nothing more. Really?   This is a pile of tyres waiting to be recycled. The mountain in the background … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein and games

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

rubber duck 016 flickr photo by dyhchan shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license I haven’t even been lurking in #clmooc this week – I’ve been away on a cruise to the Faroes and some Scottish Islands on a ship … Continue reading →

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Knitting for friends

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

At some point during rhizo15 I decided it would to start knitting for online friends. I started with a hat for Kevin (@dogtrax). This is a Klein bottle hat based on a pattern from here.       Susan(@EatcherVeggies) liked … Continue reading →

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Remediation

Posted on 3rd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many … Continue reading →

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My poem as a book

Posted on 3rd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m still playing, in odd moments, with my little poems written as a response to Sheri’s Identity Shattering challenge. Today Kevin used Storybird to make a story about his poem so I thought I’d try it as well. I think that … Continue reading →

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Breaking poems

Posted on 2nd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday I broke Kevin’s poem for him. I didn’t mean to, but I put it through QuotesCover which uglified it and broke the line spacing. Kevin responded with this. I’d already been playing with Susan’s challenge, so I thought I’d break … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2nd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Susan threw down the gauntlet. I’m rushing off to meetings and the like today, but as I was doing this it occurred to me that someone with skilz could put this tache and beard onto the Captain there. Any takers? … Continue reading →

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Who is Simon?

Posted on 1st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Earlier I wondered what it would sound like if I played all of the embeds in this blog post of Simon’s at once by clicking play on each of them, so I tried. Interesting, I thought. So I recorded my … Continue reading →

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