A grab-bag of my interests: contemporary theatre, creativity, plus life and learning online
Some of my earliest posts concerned the growing use of digital technologies in higher education, either colleague to colleague or within classroom and other learning situations. These posts continue to explore and comment upon the way 21 Century citizens rely more and more on digital social networking communities for their learning and socialising.
Photo: lukash I found myself explaining the purpose of hashtags this morning on my Facebook page. I’d posted to my news feed about a livestreaming event happening later in the day, with a reminder that hashtagging it would enable the conversation to be tracked. Someone asked what a hashtag was. Oh, how easily we forget [...]
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Image by sniggy via Flickr Today, October 15 is Blog Action Day around the blogosphere. Those thousands of bloggers who have signed up to write about this year’s theme Climate Change, are sitting down and tapping out individual responses. The idea is simply to spread the word. Maybe it’s preaching to the converted, or singing [...]
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When I was a primary (elementary) school teacher, one of the jobs I hated most was playground duty. It meant losing your precious lunch or break ‘downtime’ to wander an always hot and dusty playground, often trailed by kids who liked nothing more than to tell tales on one another. You had to keep an [...]
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I must say I’m missing my northern-summer travels this year. Perhaps it’s the cold westerly wind blowing outside as I sit here writing, while my thoughts turn to long, hot July days in the Mediterranean. This picture is where I was one year ago – Knidos in Turkey. For a few years now I have [...]
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If you’re a regular visitor to Groundling, you may have noticed that the last few days’ posts have been little compendiums of my online reading for the day. I haven’t posted any original material, but have chosen instead to share my day’s discoveries with my readers. Lazy blogger? Mmm … well I don’t believe in [...]
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