Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

A weekend of making for #CLMOOC

Posted on 21st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

#CLMOOC doesn’t “really” start till tomorrow but some of us were eager to get going so I guess we started early. We started by remixing some Webmaker Thimble memes, and then Greg (@jgmac106) upped the game by sharing a riff on the … Continue reading →

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Adding an RSS feed

Posted on 19th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Submit your blog to the hub, they said. So I tried.  I didn’t read it properly, coz this blog is a WordPress blog, but it’s self hosted, so the instructions for adding a WP blog are probably not for me. … Continue reading →

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Beginning #clmooc

Posted on 18th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Apparently #CLMOOC starts today – I am excite! I’ve made a quick poster using Mozilla Thimble. Dunno how to embed it in this blog though 🙁  

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embed test

Posted on 17th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Just testing how Google Calendar embeds here. This one is for #tomereaders

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Storify for #tomereaders chat

Posted on 16th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday we had our first #tomereaders Twitter chat about Chapter 2 of Bowen’s Teaching Naked, which is about “social proximity and the virtual classroom”. Autumm and I found a lot of similarities between what Bowen is saying and our #rhizo15 … Continue reading →

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Pay it Forward

Posted on 12th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m in a lucky place. I’ve ended up with a relatively well paid job and a husband who earns more than me. We’re not rich, but we can buy what we want on our weekly supermarket shop and still have … Continue reading →

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Teaching Naked (1)

Posted on 10th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m reading Teaching Naked at the moment for a book group, Twitter chat, who knows what-rhizo thing with Autumm and some others. I like it. Here’s Bowen’s assessment of the supposed revolution caused by the internet age: The point here is … Continue reading →

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Email for rhizoANT projects

Posted on 9th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

As we’re looking at collaborative tools for an upcoming presentation about rhizo14, Rebecca and AK  have both written about their feelings of their experiences with using email. In particular, AK talks about the challenges posed by having multiple email addresses – … Continue reading →

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Barbie discovers #rhizo15

Posted on 3rd June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create from @dogtrax barbie flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Here’s mine. You can go to Feminist Hacker Barbie and make your own.

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Heterogeneous rhizomes

Posted on 1st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

When folk hear about the concept of a rhizome in D&G they often assume, not unreasonably, that the analogy being made is to the botanical concept of ginger, or potatoes, or Japanese Knotweed. Well, sometimes it is, and it can be … Continue reading →

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