Category Archives: Social Media

What’s in a name?

Posted on 8th November 2017 by NomadWarMachine

Hmmm, I just tried to sign up to Instagram again. Now, I know that I don’t own the name NomadWarMachine, but I use it across so many platforms that I identify with it as strongly as I do with my “real” … Continue reading →

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The professional is always personal

Posted on 4th June 2017 by NomadWarMachine

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ ev’n devotion! To a … Continue reading →

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Understanding lurkers

Posted on 23rd December 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Last week I attended the most excellent SocMedHE16 conference to present a paper that I have co-written with Aras Bozkurt, Len Singh and AK based on some research we have been doing about learner behaviour in #CLMOOC – an online community … Continue reading →

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ALT-C 2016

Posted on 7th September 2016 by NomadWarMachine

On Monday I travelled to Warwick Uni for the ALT-C 16 conference, which was taking place in the Warwick Arts Centre: The main purpose of the visit was to present some thoughts that Maha, Kevin and I had put together: Developing … Continue reading →

Posted in #CLMOOC, #DigiWriMo, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, Conferences, MOOC, Online learning, Photos, Social Media, Teaching | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

#CERE16 chat

Posted on 19th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

This Tuesday 22nd March, at 5-6pm GMT, Steve Draper‘s Concepts and Empirical Research in Education (CERE) course is going to be holding a Tweetchat with the hashtag #CERE16, and I’ll be facilitating. The question that we’ll be responding to is this: … Continue reading →

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Collaborative annotating

Posted on 7th February 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I’m in love with Hypothes.is, a free online annotation tool which allows you to easily highlight bits of text and comment on them, and then to share those comments publicly if you wish so that others can see them and … Continue reading →

Posted in #CLMOOC, Editing, Online learning, Peer interaction, Reading, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

Twitter Favouriting

Posted on 25th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

How do you use the Twitter star or heart function? Maha recently published a post mentioning some of the responses to the recent change by Twitter from a star to a heart. I’m pondering doing an analysis of some Twitter hashtags … Continue reading →

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Kicking down the cobble stones

Posted on 4th October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I took part in a Twitter chat organised by Hybrid Pedagogy on Friday (#digped).  As ever it was fast and furious and there was no chance of catching everything that was going on. Another participant asked how to cope with … Continue reading →

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Rhizocats

Posted on 12th September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This week we presented at ALT-C, a fairly large (about 500 delegates) annual conference which was held in Manchester this year. Maha has already blogged about us all meeting there, so I won’t repeat that – but I do have … Continue reading →

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Adding an RSS feed

Posted on 19th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Submit your blog to the hub, they said. So I tried.  I didn’t read it properly, coz this blog is a WordPress blog, but it’s self hosted, so the instructions for adding a WP blog are probably not for me. … Continue reading →

Posted in #CLMOOC, ANT, Learning, MOOC, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments