Confession: In true click bait form there are no dubious teenage antics, including dancing in underpants, to be found in this post. I wasn’t going to do an end of year reflection this year because the entire year involved reflecting in a myriad of different spaces and also because it was a tad shit. However,... Continue Reading →
Learning and Teaching through Play: A Play within a Play
Act I: Setting the scene The words above are taken from an “ode to Adams House” that Seamus Heaney penned to as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its founding in Harvard (Kiely, 2013). It speaks of the differences between our youth and our experiences during university. Heaney is clear in the... Continue Reading →
The Manifesto for teaching online and my postcard
This post is in preparation for a Creativity at a Distance Workshop by Tanya Elias and hopefully it makes sense outside of that context. I have put down my thoughts about a postcard I created in the first module of the Digital Education programme at the University of Edinburgh as a way of linking the annotation of the... Continue Reading →
Creativity, Distance Learning & Connections
This is an overview/tour of some of the creative elements that I have experienced over the last two years as a student on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. It has been on my to-do-list for a while but a recent post by Tanya Dorey-Elias, Creativity at a Distance, was the... Continue Reading →
Can’t Crochet, Won’t Crochet
This post was an assignment for #mscde - Understanding Learners in an Online Environment. It is my reflection of a learner challenge, a new motor skill. It was submitted in March 2017. Starting out Upon initially reading the assignment I immediately thought of crochet, a skill that has alluded me from childhood. However, examining the details... Continue Reading →