Category Archives: DS106

Line of Thought-une Teller

Posted on 28th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Another line of flight from the lines of thought. As I was playing around with papier mache for the plate, I remembered the flippy clicky things we used to make when we were children – a bit of thinking and … Continue reading →

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Lines of Thought

Posted on 27th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

It started with a tweet It became a Daily Create T.S. Eliot wrote in his poem The Waste Land ‘You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images…’. Add your line of thought to this Shared … Continue reading →

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Learning as Performance

Posted on 17th December 2020 by NomadWarMachine

Today I gave a presentation for the #SocMedHE20 conference, which was on the theme of “Using social media to build community, care and compassion” . It was a conference with a difference as it was all online – presenters were … Continue reading →

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Dalek poem

Posted on 12th May 2020 by NomadWarMachine

Exterminate Exterminate EXTERMINATE

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Resolutions

Posted on 1st January 2020 by NomadWarMachine

It took me a long time to start doing the Daily Create. I wanted to participate, but I was not sure I should, or could. Although it’s an open community, I still felt that I’d be an interloper, rudely bursting … Continue reading →

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The Lion and the Unicorn

Posted on 4th July 2019 by NomadWarMachine

The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown … A pause in my day to think about today’s Feldgang. The noise of the stonemasons reminded me that this staircase is being repaired. The lion, of course, stands for … Continue reading →

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Creative playfulness

Posted on 4th May 2019 by NomadWarMachine

I submitted a draft of my PhD discussion chapter yesterday. It’s over 7,000 words, so I won’t post it all here! I can never remember the actual title of my thesis – but I am looking broadly about how peer … Continue reading →

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Good enough

Posted on 14th April 2019 by NomadWarMachine

Disco ball flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I was asked this week how I write. Quickly, I said – in odd moments snatched whenever I can find them. I try not to think too … Continue reading →

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Making time

Posted on 23rd February 2019 by NomadWarMachine

However busy I am, I try to make time for two daily rituals – one the DS106 Daily Create, a daily challenge open to anyone to participate as they wish, the other a Daily Doodle prompt I’ve been following for … Continue reading →

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Rule of thirds

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by NomadWarMachine

I took the photo in the middle of this image yesterday and used it as inspiration for my daily doodle. Such beautiful flowers, fading so fast as we are home all day with the heating on at the moment. Today … Continue reading →

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