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  1. loumcgill

    inspiration

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    The other day I saw a tweet from Jonathan Worth about a video conversation with Graham Macindoe  – a photographer based in New York, which was part of the PHONAR open photography class at Coventry University. I am a massive fan of the work done by the team at Coventry and have written and spoken about it before as my ...
  2. loumcgill

    mooc webinar

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    On Wednesday  11th July 2012 at 12noon I will be contributing to a JISC webinar What is a mooc along with David Kernohan, Martin Weller, Dave White and Jonathan Worth. My brief is to talk a little about the learner perspective based on my  own experiences with a few  MOOCs (massive open online course). I though it might be useful ...
  3. loumcgill

    telling stories

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    This video was made as an alternative to powerpoint slides to support a conversation between myself and Frances Bell at the JISC Innovating e-Learning Conference. We held a session in Elluminate on Friday 18th November and had a great conversation with...
  4. loumcgill

    nearly heard…

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    Whilst listening to the change11 mooc broadcast on dltv today I was also making some art dammit for ds106. I was listening to Stephen Downes talking about the fact that when conversations happen between people who are ‘well’  connected -others are left out. I thought it was very interesting that Stephen seemed to feel disconnected from the academic world where ...
  5. loumcgill

    Collective knowledge to Collective Action

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    From OERs to Open Practice In a recent post about my OER work I talk about a move from focussing on open educational resources to open practice. This situates OERs within open practice – as one aspect of  it. So for me OERs are resources used to support learning in either a formal or informal setting, could be developed or ...
  6. loumcgill

    Collective Learning

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    I have been watching the change11 mooc, but so far not had much opportunity to engage. This week I will be supporting Professor Allison Littlejohn with her week on Collective Learning. Allison will be sharing a range of supporting documents and informa...
  7. loumcgill

    alternative movie history

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    Double Indemnity assignment on ds106 – we have MacGuffin fever here as the whole family are once again firing ideas around and searching for stills. For non ds106 readers you have to alter one line in a movie to change the course of the plot. here is one of my all time favourite movies with the fabulous Barbara Stanwyck.   ...
  8. loumcgill

    theraputic obsession

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    It’s been a challenging few weeks for us as a family thinking about the future and what it may bring, in many ways, so I have found refuge in working with my photos (always theraputic for me). The other day I published some photographs I made as part of ds106 visualassignment13 which were the result of merging photos. In that ...
  9. loumcgill

    Futures away

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    Michael Branson Smith has done a lovely opeing post for ds106 called High School is Everyone’s Forever Ago and Cheryl Colan has done her own with a brilliant big hair photo. Their high school days were in the 80′s but mine were in the 70′s, although I still seem to have fairly big hair; ) Here is me in 6th ...
  10. loumcgill

    less is more

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    This is a follow-on post to the one I did for DS106 on averaging of photos  which was for visual assignment 13. That post included a tutorial on how to use picassa to average out 50 photos taken from a flickr search. In that post I illustrated how to use an averaged image to enhance ...
  11. loumcgill

    digital literacy

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    I have written before about the term Digital literacies and how I feel about it. That is not what this post is about. Terminology aside I am really pleased to see JISC funding a new programme around Developing Digital Literacies. I really enjoyed working on the JISC funded study which really set the stage for ...
  12. loumcgill

    il buono

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    My partner Tim has been involved with the ds106 course (most notably as the pirate in our radio show), but does not blog regularly. We’ve all gone a bit animated gif mad here and have several in production… I  am very very jealous of these animated gifs that he did which I think perfectly capture ...
  13. loumcgill

    il buono

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    My partner Tim has been involved with the ds106 course (most notably as the pirate in our radio show), but does not blog regularly. We’ve all gone a bit animated gif mad here and have several in production… I  am …

  14. loumcgill

    with a purpose

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    I am currently deciding what to do for the video assignment for ds106. So many things to try. I’m undecided as yet but wanted to share some old videos (made in 2007). These have been blogged before when I made …

  15. loumcgill

    Bravest buchaneer

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    So another 3am late night finishing the 15 minute radio show which took days to do, days!!!

    The final version was no where near good enough – with several dodgy segment links and some volume issues. However at least having …

  16. loumcgill

    black ship radio

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    Black Ship Radio by loumcgill As a family we are working on a radio show for the ds106 digital storytelling course. Our first task was to create two (one 30 second and one 1 minute) ‘radio bumpers’. Here are ours. It involved a lot of laughing and some bribery, but we have all recorded bits ...
  17. loumcgill

    I’d sooner chew my leg off

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    Although I have been banished from ds106 I know that Jim Groom will one day forgive me. I am only fighting for ds106 and when his sanity returns he may even thank me… in the meantime I have completed my second audio assignment – a musical interview with Jim Groom about the ds106 course. Interviewing ...
  18. loumcgill

    for bianca

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    Today in the live ds106 tv broadcast Jim Groom lost it and banished Bianca Oblivion from ds1064life..many of us were deeply shocked and the discussion turned to animal farm…. no one is as equal as jim groom…..NO ONE several of my fellow ds106ers and I have also been banished4life as his meglamania knows no bounds. ...
  19. loumcgill

    choices…

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    This photo is for the linear daily shoot with it’s lovely neat lines and inspired by Jim Grooms choices daily shoot. I love seeing other people’s book shelves or dvd shelves.Here is one of our dvd shelves… I have a bit of an issue with our shelves – they are so higgledy piggledy. I am ...

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