Category Archives: Reading

Old books I would not want to be without

Posted on 1st October 2016 by NomadWarMachine

The Daily Create yesterday was bizarre: There are only 3 tweets with this hashtag on Twitter. We found it via @mr45144 and we would love to add some #ds106 love to #OldBooksIDareNotPartWith today. Find a book you dare not part … Continue reading →

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Reading recommendations

Posted on 4th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today Vicki and I are trying out a slow Twitter chat with questions themed around online and blended learning. A couple of questions later on today are about reading recommendations, and I thought I’d collect a few here. First blogs. … 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 →

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embed test

Posted on 17th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Just testing how Google Calendar embeds here. This one is for #tomereaders

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Storify for #tomereaders chat

Posted on 16th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday we had our first #tomereaders Twitter chat about Chapter 2 of Bowen’s Teaching Naked, which is about “social proximity and the virtual classroom”. Autumm and I found a lot of similarities between what Bowen is saying and our #rhizo15 … Continue reading →

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Teaching Naked (1)

Posted on 10th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m reading Teaching Naked at the moment for a book group, Twitter chat, who knows what-rhizo thing with Autumm and some others. I like it. Here’s Bowen’s assessment of the supposed revolution caused by the internet age: The point here is … Continue reading →

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Recommend a book to a friend

Posted on 1st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This popped up in my inbox today, with the suggestion to recommend a book I have read to an online friend. So that got me thinking about the sort of books I’ve been dipping into recently. To be honest, the types … Continue reading →

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Reading, writing and forgetting

Posted on 6th February 2014 by NomadWarMachine

“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”  Nietzsche, somewhere I often like to begin my writing with a quotation from a philosopher, and this one is particularly apt for this week’s #rhizo14 topic  Is … Continue reading →

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Meaning versus inspiring

Posted on 25th January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve been thinking again about Cath Ellis’s blog post encouraging #rhizo14 participants to read D&G in the original and wondering if it really matters what an original meant when they wrote something, or whether it’s what it inspires in others … Continue reading →

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