26 Posts from June 2025

Open Participants 2021, The Network

Three in the Wild

Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only three apples in one frame, but I managed to zoom in on these three for today’s Daily Create. HT to Alan for the Monty Python reference in today’s challenge. Three in the Wild – Bramley Apples flickr photo by NomadWarMachine […]

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Three in the Wild

Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only three apples in one frame, but I managed to zoom in on these three for today’s Daily Create. HT to Alan for the Monty Python reference in today’s challenge. Three in the Wild – Bramley Apples flickr photo by NomadWarMachine […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

UofG Chapel

I was feeling pretty low yesterday, but it was a lovely day and I was glad to travel up to uni for a couple of meetings. As I got off the bus I stopped to look over the Kelvin at the UofG Tower UofG across the Kelvin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Then walked up the path, past the caged  flowers Caged Campion flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

UofG Chapel

I was feeling pretty low yesterday, but it was a lovely day and I was glad to travel up to uni for a couple of meetings. As I got off the bus I stopped to look over the Kelvin at the UofG Tower Then walked up the path, past the caged  flowers At the top of the hill I made a diversion to look at the Lion and the Unicorn And then, as I still had a few minutes before […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

JOMO – The Joy of Missing Out

As a bricoleur I have cultivated a habit of saying “yes”, and “yes, and …”, and this has opened me up to many wonderful experiences. Saying yes has helped me to: learn new skills meet interesting people – including a community to base my PhD on discover things I didn’t know that I wanted to know and more … Of course, sometimes I still say no – and there’s a fine line to be trodden between accepting everything because one […]

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JOMO – The Joy of Missing Out

As a bricoleur I have cultivated a habit of saying “yes”, and “yes, and …”, and this has opened me up to many wonderful experiences. Saying yes has helped me to: learn new skills meet interesting people – including a community to base my PhD on discover things I didn’t know that I wanted to know and more … Of course, sometimes I still say no – and there’s a fine line to be trodden between accepting everything because one […]

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Listening AND doing

Recently I’ve been over-exposed to the picture above. I’ve been to a slew of talks and presentations where well-meaning people have used this picture on  slide and told me that lectures are outdated and all the best teachers nowadays engage their students in active learning. But, of course, it’s not as clear cut as that. In a paper that, in my opinion, is one of the most important pieces of writing about teaching and learning, Anna Sfard highlights the importance of […]

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