Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

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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Recommend a book to a friend

Posted on 1st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This popped up in my inbox today, with the suggestion to recommend a book I have read to an online friend. So that got me thinking about the sort of books I’ve been dipping into recently. To be honest, the types … Continue reading →

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Don’t push your metaphors too far

Posted on 30th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Among the long list of fallacies we teach in level 1 philosophy is one called weak analogy: This fallacy consists in assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other … Continue reading →

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Thanks for #rhizo15

Posted on 27th May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

So I guess this is the end of the official #rhizo15 thing. Some of us talked about thanking Dave for hosting this crazy party, and some of us thought we should not thank him at all, because that was not … Continue reading →

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Google Docs and ANT

Posted on 23rd May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I use Google Docs a lot. It makes it easy for me to find and edit things I am writing no matter which computer I find myself using, and it is also easy to share documents with others and collaborate … Continue reading →

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