Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Grids and Gestures 2

Posted on 14th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

More on the Grids and Gestures activity by Nick Sousanis – behind on this coz I was at a conference on Tuesday then in bed all day yesterday with a temperature and stuff.  

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Grids and Gestures

Posted on 11th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today Nick Sousanis has teamed up with the Daily Create folk to introduce his Grids and Gestures activity. In this, he asks us to: … take a single sheet of paper (any size, shape will do) and drawing with a pencil … Continue reading →

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Not-ness

Posted on 3rd April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Inspired by Amy Collier and Jen Ross’s stuff about not yet-ness, I’ve come up with some of my own reactions, which I will use as appropriate in my day job as a learning tech.* Not on your nelly-ness. AKA over … Continue reading →

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Don’t play nice

Posted on 3rd April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

What a noise! The teacher sighed and put down her pince nez. Michael Gove’s book would have to wait for another day. Play nice children She shouted across the playground. We don’t want anybody getting hurt. Conform, comply. That’s what she … Continue reading →

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Echo Chamber

Posted on 2nd April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I don’t want to live in an echo chamber Participants in online communities may find their own opinions constantly echoed back to them, which reinforces their individual belief systems. This can create significant barriers to critical discourse within an online … Continue reading →

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Calligrams

Posted on 26th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s daily create is  to make a calligram: “to to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word.” as Ji Lee says. Here’s a couple I created by changing the transparency of letters … Continue reading →

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Bursting

Posted on 26th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day – blue skies and weather almost warm enough to start thinking about barbecues. Niall started cleaning off the patio slabs and I grabbed my camera and took a couple of pics. Here’s our forsythia … Continue reading →

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Rhizome: 7 word story

Posted on 25th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s daily create is to: Explain something technical in 24 seconds and summarize in 7 words as a video. I wanted to try something new, so I Googled for animated text and found FlashVortex and quickly made these to – ahem … Continue reading →

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#CERE16 chat

Posted on 19th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

tweey-bird flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license This Tuesday 22nd March, at 5-6pm GMT, Steve Draper‘s Concepts and Empirical Research in Education (CERE) course is going to be holding a Tweetchat with the hashtag #CERE16, and … Continue reading →

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Never Throw Tapioca Down a Mine Shaft

Posted on 18th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Create or write something to explain the origins of this aphorism: “Never throw tapioca down a mine shaft.” I don’t think it’s a well known aphorism, at least not in English, so I don’t know … Continue reading →

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