Tag Archives: #DS106

St Andrew’s Day

Posted on 30th November 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Today is St Andrew’s Day, Scottish feast day of Andrew the Apostle. no day off for me, as although it’s a Bank Holiday, institutions are not obliged to honour it (boo!). The Daily Create today asks us to use an … Continue reading →

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Bob Ross Godzilla

Posted on 12th September 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Sometimes I see a Daily Create that makes me wish I had a lot of time to spend on it. Friday was one of those days. The prompt was to make a Bob Ross style voice over. I only had … Continue reading →

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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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Interesting Character Assignment

Posted on 29th April 2020 by NomadWarMachine

#tdc3030 #ds106 Interesting Character Assignment https://t.co/QYsqNALYIY — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) April 29, 2020 This is my Granny, Constance May Hobbs. Her father had a soft furnishing company that went to the wall during WW1, so she left school at … Continue reading →

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How to nurture a community of online learners

Posted on 13th March 2020 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve been involved in open learning for several years now. It started almost by accident, when some guy called Dave ran a crazy learning experience that we called rhizo14, carried on serendipitously into a sister experience called CLMOOC, and gradually … Continue reading →

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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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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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