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Category Archives: PhD
Spring at last
Two photos, taken a week apart, both of the same branch. Last week it was cold in the garden – bright, but not warm enough to sit and enjoy it. Today was a beautiful day – warm enough to sit … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, PhD, Photos, Scotland
Tagged #clmooc, #SilentSunday, Apple Blossom, spring
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The emergence of participatory learning: authenticity, serendipity and creative playfulness
Today I got the final confirmation that I have been awarded my PhD in Education, with the title The emergence of participatory learning: authenticity, serendipity and creative playfulness. The thesis is now uploaded to my Uni library repository, and anyone … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, D&G, DS106, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Remix, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, Bricolage, participatory culture, PhD, serendipity
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Trust me, I’m a doctor
On Monday I passed my PhD viva. This thesis has been a long time cooking – I began on Jan 7th 2013, took a year out due to ill health, had two changes of thesis title and lost three supervisors … Continue reading
Permission to have fun
I was told this week that we’re only meant to be doing work that is essential. Now, if this is true, then I know that it’s being said for good reasons – that our senior management are saying this out … Continue reading
How to nurture a community of online learners
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
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo14, DailyCreate, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, PhD, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged #clmooc, #DS106, connected learning, learning communities, participatory culture
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Resolutions
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
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, Doodles, DS106, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD
Tagged #clmooc, #DS106, doodles, play, practice
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Who owns a hashtag?
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
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Online learning, PhD, Rhizomes, Social Media
Tagged ethics, hashtags, lthechat, MOOC, politeness, social media
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Past me
Sitting, pen in hand, with blank paper in front of me, I chastise my past self. I shout at her for being lazy, for not writing more, so that I would need to write less. But my past self was … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, PhD, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged clmooc, PhD, writeout, writers block, writing
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Writer’s Block
I’ve stalled. With just under five months till I submit my completed thesis I have run out of steam. I have no time to waste, and so I waste time. I know all of the advice – I have given … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, PhD, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, autoethnography, PhD, writers block, writing
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