This video was made as an alternative to powerpoint slides to support a conversation between myself and Frances Bell at the JISC Innovating e-Learning Conference. We held a session in Elluminate on Friday 18th November and had a great conversation with the audience. I have made a text version...

Whilst listening to the change11 mooc broadcast on dltv today I was also making some art dammit for ds106. I was listening to Stephen Downes talking about the fact that when conversations happen between people who are ‘well’  connected -others are left out. I thought it was very...

A few more alternative movie...

Double Indemnity assignment on ds106 – we have MacGuffin fever here as the whole family are once again firing ideas around and searching for stills. For non ds106 readers you have to alter one line in a movie to change the course of the plot. here is one of my all time favourite movies...

It’s been a challenging few weeks for us as a family thinking about the future and what it may bring, in many ways, so I have found refuge in working with my photos (always theraputic for me). The other day I published some photographs I made as part of ds106 visualassignment13 which...

Michael Branson Smith has done a lovely opeing post for ds106 called High School is Everyone’s Forever Ago and Cheryl Colan has done her own with a brilliant big hair photo. Their high school days were in the 80′s but mine were in the 70′s, although I still seem to have...