Category Archives: Conferences

Lines of Thought for ALT21

Posted on 13th September 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Last week Wendy and I gave a presentation about the collaborative poem written for a DS106 Daily Create and some of the remixes that came from it. Here’s the recording and a link to the slides.

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Hamish the Tour Guide

Posted on 18th December 2020 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday, as part of the SocMedHE20 conference, we ran a competition to guess where Hamish the Cow was. Hamish was originally knitted by me back in the old world of social contact, before we realised we’d have to run this … 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 →

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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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Virtually connecting, but missing the real connections

Posted on 7th September 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m presenting at ALT-C this week. I was really excited about it – my co-presenters are part of my rhizo14 folk and I never thought I would get to meet them. But a bad thing seems to have happened. Somehow, … Continue reading →

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HEA STEM conference 2014

Posted on 12th May 2014 by NomadWarMachine

A couple of weeks ago I attended the HEA STEM conference in Edinburgh.  I was a bit out of my comfort zone for a couple of reasons – first because I’m a philosopher, and STEM scares me a bit, and … Continue reading →

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eAssessment Scotland Conference 2013

Posted on 24th August 2013 by NomadWarMachine

I spent yesterday at the 5th annual eAssessment Scotland conference at Dundee University.  This is the third year I’ve attended, and it was odd not to be presenting for once (2 years ago Kenji asked me and Steve Draper to … Continue reading →

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Facebook, subjective well-being, and use

Posted on 19th August 2013 by NomadWarMachine

There’s been a lot of hype in the media recently about a report that apparently show that using Facebook makes you miserable.  It’s making for sensational headlines, so the appeal to journalists is obvious, but what should we think about it … Continue reading →

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International Conference on Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education

Posted on 12th August 2013 by NomadWarMachine

I was due to attend this conference back in June, but due to being suddenly signed off sick I was unable to attend.  However, my co-presenters Niall Barr, Lorna Love and Shazia Ahmed did present papers at the conference which … Continue reading →

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ALT-C 2012 – a confrontation with reality

Posted on 19th September 2012 by NomadWarMachine

I spent most of last week down in Manchester at the ALT-C 2012 – a confrontation with reality conference.  Unusually for me I was not presenting (I had not submitted anything for consideration), so this was a chance for me to … Continue reading →

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