Category Archives: #rhizo15

The Creative Art of Wittering

Posted on 24th October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

witter verb (wittered, wittering) intrans (usually witter on) to talk or mutter ceaselessly and ineffectually. ETYMOLOGY: 19c: probably a variant of whitter to chatter. Chambers Online Dictionary It’s hard to know when rhizomatic learning is appropriate. On the one hand, … 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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Squinting sideways

Posted on 13th September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:– We murder to dissect. (Wordsworth, The Tables Turned) I often used to feel that doing analytic philosophy was like pulling the legs of a spider … Continue reading →

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Knitting for friends

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

At some point during rhizo15 I decided it would to start knitting for online friends. I started with a hat for Kevin (@dogtrax). This is a Klein bottle hat based on a pattern from here.       Susan(@EatcherVeggies) liked … 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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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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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 Here’s mine. You can go to Feminist Hacker Barbie and make your own.

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