6 Posts from December 2017

Open Participants 2018, The Network

Cargo Cults

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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. And if this is so, then there’s a lot of important lessons to be learnt by those of us who are interested on how folk learn, and how we teach. Here’s a couple that spring to mind. First, if all we […]

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Open Participants 2018, The Network

Hope

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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 hope that 2018 will continue to be a time of sharing, making and of love.

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Open Participants 2018, The Network

Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions

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I’m giving a paper at the SocMedHE conference at Sheffield Hallam this Tuesday called Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions in a Participatory Culture: recent findings and implications for Higher Education. It’s based on some of the findings from my PhD research on CLMoooc, and I’m suggesting that CLMooc is better thought of as an affinity space than as a community, as it’s the things that we do that bring us together. I think that the best way to describe CLMooc is […]

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Kean University 2019, The Network

Home: A Recap

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Earlier this week, Michael Bierut, Sonia Williams, and I spent an hour on the phone together. Michael is an influential graphic designer based in New York, Sonia is a high school student in Paintsville, Kentucky, and I’m a designer at Automattic, living outside of Boston. Sonia came prepared with a great set of questions. She prompted Michael to tell us about his career, and to take us through some of his favorite projects. We talked about designing this website. Michael […]

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Open Participants 2017, The Network

Association for Learning Technology ALT Winter Online Conference

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I got up early (1 am in Oakland, California!) to participate in this year’s Association for Learning Technology Winter Online Conference.  I could only access one of the day’s Blackboard webinars, confirming what I’ve heard about Blackboard, but got to participate in a tweet chat. I hope tomorrow the technology is up to the task. Otherwise, the irony may become toxic. View the story “Open Educational Practice #oep A DIY manifesto” on Storify Featured Image: image from pxhere CC

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Open Participants 2018, The Network

Ticky-tacky feedback

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I’ve had two things on my mind this week – the first is the amazing cover of Little Boxes by Walk off the Earth: (this is a serious earworm – catchy tune and lyrics which are political satire as relevant today as when the song was first written in 1962); the second is how to make assessment and feedback useful to students. And, actually, I think that both of these are connected. It strikes me that often feedback is spoken […]

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