Here's a quote from an excellent session by Mia Zamora and Alan Levine at OER18 that stuck in my head...
As a family, we made a Sunday evening habit of watching the David Attenborough BBC series The Blue Planet 2. I…
The conversation I had in my local shop this morning, when the man behind the counter automatically put my pint of milk…
Mixed metaphor? Yes please, especially if it's silly. Is there NOTHING a three-panelled comic strip can't convey? Inspired by this tweet here about OER18.…
In 1972 a team of open workers was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. This team…
It's become a bit of a tradition in our house to make each other cards for our birthdays. The Paper53…
It feels like I'm missing something. I wonder if there's a record-setting sporting contest I need to witness. Um... nope. I wonder…
And so it was that we chanced upon the very spirit of makery captured forever in this conversation...
So far, the only emerging upside of Brexit is to have a new-in-my-lifetime-but-old-in-others coloured passport. So in order to help out, I…
I attended the badge summit in London last week. I had the opportunity to visually digest the chatter from different speakers regarding V2…
A story. Of how their life had changed. There's none so powerful as a story. And this is what I heard him…
As I thought about the making process behind my Raspberry Pi being installed as protector of my shed from overheating, I…
SOMEONE left the heater on in my shed. You can read all about it here in the most recent dollop…
I attended a Cities of Learning event recently, hosted by the RSA. I've long been interested in this project, and…
Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless! It's just 1's and 0's after all... Unless, that is, I can get some insight…
Gold, Silver, Bronze, yawn... This (standard) approach prevents the issuing organisation from having to think too deeply about how learners might interact with…
You may not know that there are Seven Co-operative Principles. Yesterday, I was at Mozfest, hosted by Ravensbourne College in Greenwich,…
Doug Belshaw has been experimenting recently with ZeroNet, a way of hosting a website, distributed amongst peers (using BitTorrent and…
What if I just tweak it a little? Change the colours slightly, or make it into a repeating pattern? Or a…
It's a two way deal. Once you've seen something, you can't unsee it. Equally, the interpretation of what you see…
If self expression affords you a sideways glimpse at your own self, then a self portrait allows you to briefly hold…
So I've been meeting with Kin Lane recently (aka API Evangelist) trying to get a deeper hold on all things…
There are a grazillion lists of leadership qualities compiled by those who seem to be able to exactly define what it…
I read this guardian article recently where a woman asked Tinder for all her personal information. They sent her 800…