Category Archives: #CLMOOC

Collaborative annotating

Posted on 7th February 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I’m in love with Hypothes.is, a free online annotation tool which allows you to easily highlight bits of text and comment on them, and then to share those comments publicly if you wish so that others can see them and … Continue reading →

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String pictures

Posted on 3rd February 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I don’t draw – I can doodle, but it’s nothing special. So Karen’s postcard writing challenge was – well – a challenge for me. I bought some coloured card and dithered for ages about what to do: potato prints? collage? … Continue reading →

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Kangaroo

Posted on 25th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Last week as I walked past our university library I spotted a kangaroo lurking. This week I remembered to snap a pic. Unfortunately there has been a lot of rain and it has a big puddle of water around it. Poor … Continue reading →

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A Treasure

Posted on 14th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I came home on a wet and windy evening earlier this week to find a card through my door telling me that the postie had tried to deliver a “brown box”. I wasn’t expecting any deliveries, so I wondered what … Continue reading →

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Postcards

Posted on 8th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Riches indeed – the postcards I have received as part of Karen’s postcard writing collaboration. All beautiful, in their different ways. Thank you, friends 🙂

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Making conversation

Posted on 29th October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

While I love participating in events such as the rhizothings and other connectivist happenings, they can be both overwhelming and isolating at times. Overwhelming because of the sheer volume of content that is being disseminated; isolating because while everybody is sharing with … Continue reading →

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Really connecting

Posted on 3rd October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Here’s some pics of my pals wearing my hand knits. I’m having a lot of fun doing this 🙂

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Penfriends

Posted on 25th September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

When I was a teenager I had two pen friends – one in Paris and one in Berlin. I wrote them painfully dull letters in excruciating French and German and received  equally dull letters back from them. My heart sank … Continue reading →

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Where is home?

Posted on 29th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I never know what to answer when folk ask where I am from. I’m from Scotland, of course – I’ve lived here for the last 17 years, and that’s my usual answer. But sometimes folk want to know where I … Continue reading →

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Ranger yourself

Posted on 28th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Apparently this week we are all to be park rangers. Well, sort of. We’ve been told to: … grab your sneakers or walking shoes, and head on out into the Great Outdoors and continue to explore the public spaces that … Continue reading →

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