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The use of blogging as a research tool
‘For most academics, blogs are irrelevant because they don’ t count as publications’ (Lovink 2008) ‘ [Blogs are] the unverified and unverifiable statements of individuals, discussions on listservs …...
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You got me searching…
You gotta slow down (slow down) sweet talking woman (slow down) You got me running (run, run) You got me searching (Sweet talking woman by ELO) Head buzzing, body tired. So many implications to a...
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A condo in Terra Incognita?
‘Productive inquiry [is] that aspect of any activity where we are deliberately seeking what we need in order to do what we want to do (Dewey, 1922 and Cook and Brown, 1999). In the net age we now have...
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Purposeful Tinkerings
‘ [Web 2.0 tools offer] a new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation [ ] over presentation, that encourages focused conversation [ ] rather than traditional publication,...
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Why am I MOOCing?
I discovered computers on the last year of my psychology degree at Warwick University. I picked an introductory class in Artificial Intelligence and our first experience was to talk to a natural...
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Can digital storytelling provide an effective educational tool?
Is this a story? I thought so and I tried to tell my own story using this medium. My first humble attempt at telling a story using kinetic typography – I created it to illustrate the shaky ground of...
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Mind-shifting on assessment
Assessment is the process of measuring a person’s knowledge or skills. It’s not a science; it doesn’t prove anything, but passing a test or completing a practical task implies a certain level of...
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No! You should not do DS106
“I found a village of humans from many parts of our planet. How strange is that? I found a small village that seemed caring. Not all of them to be sure. Some were more distant than others, some more...
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Learning backstage at the Internet show
There is not map to backstage This post is a summary of ideas from a reflection post I wrote when undertaking a learning design project with the Open University on a module on openness and innovation...
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Of introverts, trolls and hangouts on air….
Learning about introverts My explorations backstage at the Internet Show continue looking at privacy issues on Google Hangouts and reflections on digital privacy as part of building a personal...
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I am not doing #rhizo14 but I guess I’m in!
Thank you Matthias for your video which I used to remix. See: http://x28newblog.wordpress.com I made the decision to not join #rhizo14 as I like to focus on one course at a time when I learn. It was...
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Working virtually: Treat each thing as if it were alive
When I started thinking about this post I wanted to write about ‘team’ work and how to do it virtually. Team seems such an overused word it means little anymore when used to refer to groups of people...
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Wanna do a cMOOC?
I participated on the P2PU course called ‘Rhizomatic Learning – the community is the curriculum’ (#Rhizo14) on a previous post I talked about how it was an unplanned participation driven mainly by my...
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The psychology of open: On wrestling your inner MOOC
Monsters dwell in the hinterlands of the known world, symbolic expressions of cultural unease. Inhabitants of an imagined realm adjunct to the everyday, monsters offer powerful tropes and tools for...
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Of monsters, contemplation and information
CC by Michael Branson Smith from a poster CC by D. Kernohan I have seen this animated gif many times but only this week I focussed on the quote ‘a tsunami of poorly understood pedagogy’. It really...
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The question is what is the question
As I start some associative trails for Connected Courses I took time this morning to listen and make some notes on Catherine Cronin’s keynote at #Altc recently. I will be writing another post as I...
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Texting #X
I have been reflecting for a long time now on what is the online voice that is emerging as I navigate open education practices on the web outside my ‘home’ space in ‘DS106′. What has been lovely about...
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A human OER
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it...
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Show, don’t tell!
It seems I have spent my life talking about stuff. My job as a research psychologist and academic was about finding out and writing about it. It strikes me that since choosing to end my full time...
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The expert linchpin
I have been on many back channel conversations of late that have led me to reflect on Bateson’s idea that only ‘a difference which makes a difference’ is information. It makes me smile to think that...
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