Blog
This is a list of all the posts in the site, in chronological order with most recent first
Smart Learning really is a thing
Dec
10
2020
Catching up on current happenings in smart urban creative and learning initiatives using digital interactions to engage with place and the city
I’m following up again on my continuing academic assertion that situated digitally mediated creativity,…
/ Read MoreRepair, re-use, renew, adapt, survive
Nov
30
2020
It is more than a year since I had to reinstall my operating system on my sturdy MacBook Pro (2015 8gb RAM 128gb SSD, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5). Everything still works great, and I celebrate my own sheer bloodymindedness plus desperate need to achieve…
/ Read MoreTeaching in Pandemic Times
Oct
09
2020
People are talking a lot on social media about their lives, more than ever. Indiscretions are made, but the light gets in when things get broken. Today I saw some posts on a teaching group in FB about losing hope, about not being able to deal with…
/ Read MoreForty Days
Aug
19
2020
I have forty days left. It is August 19th, 2020, and September has thirty days in it, so forty days. My ideal end day is September 30th. This allows ten working days to get printing done and deliver documents to the Doctoral school admin office. So,…
/ Read MoreThe topic of a doctorate
Apr
14
2020
I’m jotting down a few reflections on how you choose a topic for your doctorate. I think for many of us it isn’t as simple as ‘something I’m really interested in’, or ‘what I’m good at’, or ‘what I’d like to specialise in’. Care must be taken in your…
/ Read MoreTeaching online from home
Mar
28
2020
This post is about some of the issues you might encounter when teaching online from home, especially without much time to prepare for this transition. We are in unprecedented (pandemic) times, and us who teach (school, informal, non formal, tertiary)…
/ Read MoreAlexander Supertramp
Jan
12
2020
A few days ago I watched a film called Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless, and this film has made a very big impact on me which I hadn’t really expected at all. I was going through those lists that you do after Christmas when you’ve…
/ Read MoreProgress towards completing
Oct
31
2019
This is a difficult stage, everyone says so. I’m deep into chapter five, where I outline in detailed terms how I went about analysis of data. In phenomenography this is a crucial aspect of the reliability of the findings. We don’t pursue ideas about…
/ Read MoreBlog, for all our sakes
Sep
19
2019
This post is about how important it is to blog. Perhaps people think it isn’t important to blog, that it’s trivial, it doesn’t matter, it’s duplicating other work, it’s pointless. So I feel it’s useful to list a few reasons why blogging is vital as…
/ Read MoreLaughing Men and Data Libertarianism
Aug
31
2019
This post is about hacker activism, disruption and social iconography. Images used in this article are without permission, serving their profound duty as another link in the chain of hacker identity proliferation.
Today’s news about Jack Dorsey’s…
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