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 […]
I am pleased to have a new paper published in a special issue of the Research in Learning Technology journal. I reflected on my process for collaboratively writing this paper in an earlier post, and how my co-writer and I worked on it using cloud-based technologies over a […]
This is one of two oral papers that I’ll be presenting at the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) conferences in December 2013: The sociomaterial workings of a college writing assignment The paper builds on previous work where I have tried […]
I have recently submitted a paper for a journal, which will be coming out very shortly as part of a ‘digital literacies’ series. The paper is co-written by Roberto de Roock, a fellow PhD researcher at the University of Arizona. It’s been a pleasure working with Roberto over […]
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 […]
I had a fascinating session with Cathy Clarkson yesterday, where we performed a digital literacies “icon mapping” exercise with the students of her very innovative “L4 Technology for Learning Delivery” course. I have been observing the course as part of my PhD research, and we agreed to use […]
Just another wee reflection: Plato in his Phaedrus talks about the ‘fysikEs arthrOsis’ or ‘natural joints’ of entities and phenomena. He suggests that thinking about phenomena is like slaughtering an animal: that judicious knowledge of ‘joints’ and connections is imperative, and taken-for-granted, arbitrary, and organisational notions of connections […]
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