The following are some tweets from the SRHE’s Digital University conference on “The digital and the material: mapping contemporary student practices” on 28th March 2014. Tweets are related to my session and other sessions by David White, Donna Lanclos, Lesley Gourlay, and Martin Oliver. Some thought provoking themes […]
Whilst messing with Storify, I realised that I cannot get it to ‘speak to’ my wordpress.com blog. So until I have figured it, or moved to wordpress.org, I will have to mess with Storify and then re-collate, or re-curate, the relevant tweets using the embed codes in a […]
I’m back from the internship working with CARDET in Cyprus. And whilst doing bits and pieces for them, I also managed to enjoy some parts of the magnificent island. One of the things I did whilst there was a session on Digital Literacies, see Prezi below: Also available […]
The following is an overview of my session for the ‘Doctoral Colloquium on Learning Innovations 1’ at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) on 22 Oct 2013. The Presentation is below: The Prezi can also be found on: http://prezi.com/gi73acm6l3s1/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share This presentation outlined a series of reflections on my doctoral […]
It was a pleasure to present, meet researchers, and listen to the insights of others at the “Everyday Literacies” conference at Sheffield University on Friday. One of the things that appealed to me about the conference, and eventually to register and send an abstract, is its emphasis on […]
ABSTRACT This working paper reports on the preliminary findings of a PhD study which examines the nature of the digital literacy practices that arise when an adult learner (Sara) in a UK Further Education college completes writing assignments for her course. Drawing on the concept of ‘literacy events’ […]
I thoroughly enjoyed the ICEM/CARDET conference in Nicosia (Cyprus) which was on the theme of “design thinking”. I met up with some interesting activists in the area of digital media and its place in educational research, and am particularly excited about writing opportunities for the Ed Media International […]
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