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Category Archives: Writing
Blogging is a way of life
Steve Wheeler’s recent #Blimage, #Blideo and #TwistedPair challenges have been great for getting me thinking and helping me find inspiration when I want to blog. This weekend he also inspired my husband, Niall Barr, to participate. Steve’s been a great … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Twisted Pair, Writing
Tagged #twistedpair, blogging, Mr Motivator, spandex
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ReMEDIAte my poem
Today’s #clmooc challenge is to take something done in one media and convert it to another. My first attempt uses one of the poems written for Sheri’s challenge. First I copied and pasted the text of one of them into … Continue reading
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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