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 …
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 …
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 the audience. I have made a text version of …
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 …
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 … Read the rest…
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 …
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 … Read the rest…
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 information and we will have a live session at …
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 … Read the rest…
A few more alternative movie histories… …
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 … Read the rest…
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 …
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 … Read the rest…
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 …
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 … Read the rest…
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 …
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 …
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 … Read the rest…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
here is my trailer mashup assignment – saturday night fever to the audio on strictly ballroom
I used mpeg streamclip to save the files and then used adobe premiere (part of my cs3 package). I have never used this before so a bit of a learning curve and thanks very …
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 them but the reason I wanted to include them as …
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 a deadline made me stop tinkering.
Blackshipradioshow by loumcgill
So …
