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Category Archives: Writing
Email for rhizoANT projects
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
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, ANT, Editing, MOOC, Rhizomes, Technology, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, ANT, collaborative writing, email, Slack
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Google Docs and ANT
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
A herd of freely associating, autonomous cats.
At the moment some of us are attempting to finish an article about the collaborative autoethnography we’ve been working on since the second week of #rhizo14 (the first rMOOC?). One thing we’re attempting to characterise is the way that we zigzagged between … Continue reading
On Creativity
This week in #rhizo14 we’re meant to be thinking about creativity. Some people are running with this and going and doing lots of lovely creative things, like this image on this, others are engaging with #ds106. I’ve been really busy catching … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Philosophy, Wedding, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, Bruffee, creativity, D&G, Dasein, Heidegger
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Reading, writing and forgetting
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” Nietzsche, somewhere I often like to begin my writing with a quotation from a philosopher, and this one is particularly apt for this week’s #rhizo14 topic Is … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Philosophy, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, parrot sketch, Phaedrus, Plato, Tractatus, Wittgenstein
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Meaning versus inspiring
I’ve been thinking again about Cath Ellis’s blog post encouraging #rhizo14 participants to read D&G in the original and wondering if it really matters what an original meant when they wrote something, or whether it’s what it inspires in others … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, writing
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Dichotomies
I like making lists, and I also like making tables. I know that the world’s not really black and white, but I taking an idea and looking at it in two ways – I like dichotomies. I’ve been playing around … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Philosophy, Rhizomes, Writing
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Rules for writing well
I’ve just finished Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and enjoyed it very much. The overall message of the book is that writers (he says social scientists, but I think this applies more widely … Continue reading
Book Lists
I’m an inveterate list maker, oft in my head, sometimes on paper, and I have a new project. A friend posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook feed, one of a book bath, one of a library, and they’ve … Continue reading
Materiality
I’ve been reading Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly:How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and very much enjoying his discussion of nominalisation, and why it can be such a bad thing in the Social Sciences (because it leads to ambiguity … Continue reading
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