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Hope
Twitter gets a lot of bad press, for many reasons. But, for me, it’s a place I find like-minded friends who are generous, caring and creative. So today’s #DecDoodle is a Twitter dove with an olive branch – symbolising my … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, Love, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD
Tagged #clmooc, #DS106, dove, hope, love, Twitter
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Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions
I’m giving a paper at the SocMedHE conference at Sheffield Hallam this Tuesday called Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions in a Participatory Culture: recent findings and implications for Higher Education. It’s based on some of the findings from my PhD research … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Social Media, Teaching, University
Tagged #clmooc, affinity space, Community of Practice, CoP, serendipity
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Ticky-tacky feedback
I’ve had two things on my mind this week – the first is the amazing cover of Little Boxes by Walk off the Earth: (this is a serious earworm – catchy tune and lyrics which are political satire as relevant … Continue reading
Learning and Meaning
I rewatched a superb TedX talk yesterday by Tesia Marshik called Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection. She talks about the myth of learning styles and the danger of believing in them, and it’s a powerful and persuasive critique. What … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, Assessment and Feedback, feedback, meaning
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What’s in a name?
Hmmm, I just tried to sign up to Instagram again. Now, I know that I don’t own the name NomadWarMachine, but I use it across so many platforms that I identify with it as strongly as I do with my “real” … Continue reading
Cat Map
No, not a map of cats, but a map for cats. Specifically, this is a map of the downstairs of our house and the back garden. Each X marks a spot that is owned by a cat or that a … Continue reading
A map is not a tracing
Today’s inspiration for #Mapvember comes from Deleuze and Guattari’s writings on the rhizome. This is one of the passages in A Thousand Plateaus (ATP) that I return to again and again: Make a map, not a tracing … What distinguishes the … Continue reading
Mapvember
A new month, a new challenge. This was one suggested by Wendy Taleo and developed by her and others in the CLMooc collective. Inspired by Miska Fredman’s mapvember challenge during November we in CLMooc will be making some maps together. Our … Continue reading
Why I write
I write because I’m happy I write because I’m angry I write because I’m sad I write because I care I write because I can I write because I can’t not I write because I’m human I write because I write
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, Online learning, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, #ndow #ds106 #tdc2111, writing
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From Scotland with love
This week hurricane Ophelia hit the UK. Well, I say hit, but it was really more of a tickle in Glasgow – wet and windy, but no worse than the usual Autumn storms. And as I reflected on today’s Daily … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Photos, postcards, University
Tagged #DS106, #inf103 #inf115 #care4sagarado, #tdc2109, hurricane Maria, Hurricane Ophelia, Puerto Rico
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