Bryan Mathers

Open willy-nilly

Here's a quote from an excellent session by Mia Zamora and Alan Levine at OER18 that stuck in my head...

8 years ago

The tide is turning – single use plastic

As a family, we made a Sunday evening habit of watching the David Attenborough BBC series The Blue Planet 2. I…

8 years ago

Single Use Plastic

The conversation I had in my local shop this morning, when the man behind the counter automatically put my pint of milk…

8 years ago

The early bird…

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.…

8 years ago

The Innov-A-team

In 1972 a team of open workers was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. This team…

8 years ago

Smiley Card

It's become a bit of a tradition in our house to make each other cards for our birthdays. The Paper53…

8 years ago

Is technology addictive?

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…

8 years ago

Shed – ideas worth making…

And so it was that we chanced upon the very spirit of makery captured forever in this conversation...

8 years ago

A post-brexit passport

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…

8 years ago

Open Badges 2.0

I attended the badge summit in London last week. I had the opportunity to visually digest the chatter from different speakers regarding V2…

8 years ago

Love and hate

A story. Of how their life had changed. There's none so powerful as a story. And this is what I heard him…

8 years ago

The Principles of Makery

As I thought about the making process behind my Raspberry Pi being installed as protector of my shed from overheating, I…

8 years ago

Raspberry Pi – protector of the shed…

SOMEONE left the heater on in my shed. You can read all about it here in the most recent dollop…

8 years ago

People and Jobs

I attended a Cities of Learning event recently, hosted by the RSA. I've long been interested in this project, and…

8 years ago

Data: it’s personal

Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless! It's just 1's and 0's after all... Unless, that is, I can get some insight…

8 years ago

Pathways

Gold, Silver, Bronze, yawn... This (standard) approach prevents the issuing organisation from having to think too deeply about how learners might interact with…

8 years ago

The Seven Co-operative Principles

You may not know that there are Seven Co-operative Principles. Yesterday, I was at Mozfest, hosted by Ravensbourne College in Greenwich,…

8 years ago

ZeroNet – the rabbit hole…

Doug Belshaw has been experimenting recently with ZeroNet, a way of hosting a website, distributed amongst peers (using BitTorrent and…

8 years ago

Curiosity

What if I just tweak it a little? Change the colours slightly, or make it into a repeating pattern? Or a…

8 years ago

Eye

It's a two way deal. Once you've seen something, you can't unsee it. Equally, the interpretation of what you see…

8 years ago

Self Portrait

If self expression affords you a sideways glimpse at your own self, then a self portrait allows you to briefly hold…

8 years ago

Artificial Intelligence…

So I've been meeting with Kin Lane recently (aka API Evangelist) trying to get a deeper hold on all things…

8 years ago

Being a leader

There are a grazillion lists of leadership qualities compiled by those who seem to be able to exactly define what it…

8 years ago

The future of testing

I read this guardian article recently where a woman asked Tinder for all her personal information. They sent her 800…

8 years ago