Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

#rhizo15: An Invasive Species?

Posted on 14th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

In this week’s #rhizo15 question, Dave Cormier asks if rhizomatic learning is an invasive species. Depends   (This is inspired by Keith, btw.)  

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Introducing the swarm

Posted on 13th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

 I used to refer to myself as “One of Eight” in emails regarding my tutoring. Back in 2009 (or thereabouts) the University conceded to pressure from the trade union and put we lowly teaching assistants on a proper pay scale … Continue reading →

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Be careful what you “black box”

Posted on 12th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I often describe my job as a learning technologist as “trying not to break things”.  Folk respond to this with a nervous laugh, because they are fairly sure it is a joke that they don’t understand, but there’s a serious … Continue reading →

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Time to cluster

Posted on 4th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve seen a few comments over the last couple of weeks about people not being able to keep up with rhizo15, or read everything, and I think that this might be causing some folk to worry that they are not … Continue reading →

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Content is Glasgow?

Posted on 3rd May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Last summer the Commonwealth Games were in Glasgow. The image on the left is the perky mascot, Clyde, with the slogan “People make Glasgow” proudly displayed on his chest. I was reminded of this last night when I saw it … Continue reading →

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Returning to learning

Posted on 1st May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

So this week Turnitin announced their automated marking service.  My first reaction was to groan and wonder how long it would be before we were asked if we’d be supporting the service.  Then Scott said something that made me think … Continue reading →

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rhizoradio promos

Posted on 27th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

While we wait, with bated breath, for Dave to announce our #rhizoradio play, I thought it would be an idea to collate the various promos here. Kevin’s Thinglink Autumm’s Mr X loses his battle with objectivity (image by Angela) My … Continue reading →

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Dave’s Originality Score

Posted on 23rd April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This week in #rhizo15 the topic is about how to measure learning. Just for fun, I put some of his blog posts through Turnitin. Two of them came back with 0% similarity, this one came back with 4%. Dave is … Continue reading →

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Mapping the nodes for #rhizo15: my photo choice

Posted on 21st April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

lacey-bag flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Jane had the neat idea of mapping we #rhizo15 participants onto a Google Map (still time to fill in the form with your info, if you’ve not already … Continue reading →

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Playing pictures

Posted on 20th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Thanks to the amazing Kevin (@dogtrax) I am learning lots of new skills. Over the weekend he played some pictures of #rhizo15 and shared his method.  I’d been meaning to do something about an image that Simon (@sensor) had tweeted over … Continue reading →

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