Category Archives: Online learning

Collective Hope

Posted on 26th April 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Some collaborations keep giving and giving, making me smile and giving me hope. Last year some of us put together a calendar on the theme of hope – pictures we had drawn, photos we had taken, words we had written. … Continue reading →

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What would Wittgenstein think of remix?

Posted on 15th February 2021 by NomadWarMachine

We were playing a game at the weekend, which Kevin started. We answered by making an acrostic of the word we guessed until we got it right Then Wendy put her twist on it. Different game, different rules. Obviously related … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Rhizo Reminiscences

Posted on 22nd January 2020 by NomadWarMachine

Were were you six years ago? When I asked myself that question earlier this week I realised that I was participating in the first week of rhizo14 So much has happened since then – so much that I don’t know … 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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Poinsettia

Posted on 15th December 2019 by NomadWarMachine

One reason that I like participating in daily drawing challenges is that it encourages me to try to draw something new, rather than doodling the same shapes that have become familiar to me. So when I saw that it was … Continue reading →

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Who owns a hashtag?

Posted on 20th November 2019 by NomadWarMachine

I’m doing a MOOC from Futurelearn at the moment with some friends: Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations It’s interesting, I am getting to use some familiar software (TAGS) and some new stuff (Tableau), and it’s good … 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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