-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
Words I use a lot
- #clmooc
- #DigiWriMo
- #DS106
- #modigiwri
- #rhizo14
- #rhizo15
- #SilentSunday
- autumn
- birds
- Bricolage
- cats
- clmooc
- collaboration
- connected learning
- D&G
- Daily Create
- Deleuze
- doodles
- ds106
- feldgang
- flowers
- garden
- Glasgow
- Glasgow University
- knitting
- learning
- Loch Lomond
- Mugdock
- Mull
- peer interaction
- PhD
- Philosophy
- poetry
- postcards
- remix
- rhizomatic learning
- Rhizome
- Scotland
- sky
- spring
- trees
- water
- Wittgenstein
- writing
TALKY TINA OFFICIAL INTERNET BADGE OF AUTHENTICITY
Meta
Category Archives: Learning
It depends how you look at it
There’s a story that’s often told about a bunch of blind men and an elephant. Each man only encounters a part of the elephant and, based on their partial understanding, disagree with the others about the *real* nature of the … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo15, D&G, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Philosophy, Researcher Journal, Rhizomes
Tagged #clmooc, blind men, elephant, perspectivism, Rhizome
Leave a comment
Stealing learning
He came like a thief in the night. Stealthily, furtively, he crept in. With nobody watching he grabbed it, clutched at it with all his might, cradled it close to his chest and shuffled away. This picture of learners who … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Teaching
Tagged lurk, lurker, lurking, online learning
6 Comments
Lurkers
I lurk There, I’ve said it out loud. There are times that, for various reasons, I read conversations and watch what is going on without visibly participating. Does that make me a bad person, or is my behaviour an entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching, University
Tagged lurk. lurker, lurking
8 Comments
Be More Kind
A timely earworm for me this week as I am marking philosophy exam scripts. The lyrics are actually about our broken society, but the title of the song speaks to me as I try to decipher scrawly handwriting and make … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Feedback, Learning, Teaching, University
Tagged exams, Frank Turner, kindness, marking
Leave a comment
Don’t kill the messenger
It’s no surprise to find that Jeremy Hunt is talking rubbish again this week. In a Guardian article we hear that he is proposing a universal social media limit for every child. Sound good? Maybe – except that there’s no … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged affinity space, community, screen time, social media, tory policy
1 Comment
Demystifying Doodles
I’ve been thinking a lot about creative processes recently – about how, if all one sees is the end product, it’s easy to assume that the creator produced it effortlessly. This morning, as I was doodling a happy birthday message … Continue reading
Generating assessment principles
What make a good assessment principle? Not unsurprisingly, I’ve been looking at David Nicol’s answers to this question. Here’s my representation of his answer to the question which I have taken from a 2007 keynote talk he gave – I’m … Continue reading
Posted in ASBS, Assessment, Feedback, Learning, Online learning, University
Tagged ASBS, assessment, feedback, HE
2 Comments
Secondment
I’ve been dying to shout this out loud, and now I can. As my Facebook friends will know, on March 1st I take up a two year secondment to our Adam Smith Business School as a Teaching Fellow working with … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, University
Tagged business school, research, secondment
3 Comments
Cargo Cults
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I think that’s probably true of many things and not just limited to technology – that many things that others do look like magic from the outside. … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Capitalism, Critical pedagogy, DS106, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Rhizomes, Social Media, Teaching, Technology, University
Tagged #clmooc, #DS!06, cargo cult, cMOOC, Feynman, xMOOC
5 Comments
Hope
Twitter gets a lot of bad press, for many reasons. But, for me, it’s a place I find like-minded friends who are generous, caring and creative. So today’s #DecDoodle is a Twitter dove with an olive branch – symbolising my … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, Love, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD
Tagged #clmooc, #DS106, dove, hope, love, Twitter
Leave a comment
