Category Archives: Learning

Rhizocats

Posted on 12th September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This week we presented at ALT-C, a fairly large (about 500 delegates) annual conference which was held in Manchester this year. Maha has already blogged about us all meeting there, so I won’t repeat that – but I do have … Continue reading →

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What’s the point of feedback?

Posted on 3rd September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I recently had a conversation with some other academics about the whole marking, assessment and feedback parade that we go through in HE, and the NSS student survey results, which always score lower for feedback than for other areas. We … Continue reading →

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Vicarious learning

Posted on 24th August 2015 by NomadWarMachine

If we think that tutorials and seminars are an important part of the campus based learning experience, then how to we replace these when we are designing and delivering online courses? One way might be to use virtual classroom software … Continue reading →

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WYSIWYG

Posted on 17th August 2015 by NomadWarMachine

There’s a new challenge going around – watch a short video and write a bog post tying what you have seen into something about education. So Whitney sent me this one about the Landfill Harmonic, who make musical instruments out … Continue reading →

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An apple+ for the teacher

Posted on 21st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

  An apple for the teacher is just not enough today. Another #blimage post

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Learning Technology Cats

Posted on 21st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

The problem with learning technology as a specialism is that there are not enough cats involved. Oh, sure, some of us have cats and most of us enjoy watching them on the interwebz, but we don’t get them involved enough … Continue reading →

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A puzzle

Posted on 19th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve no idea what I am meant to be doing. Not that there’s anything new about that, but for this task in particular I feel as if I have come in at the middle of a conversation and there’s a … Continue reading →

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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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