I’ve been doing some maintenance work on my LifeStream prompted by the realisation that both the YouTube and Delicious feeds had stopped working, thereby making a mockery of my last summary! While in the dashboard, tinkering tentatively with links, I noticed my spam comments. Among other things, I have been invited to join several special [...]
This week I wanted my LifeStream to reflect what I actually do online rather than try to find things with which to fill it. As a language teacher, much of my online presence is occupied with finding resources, practice materials and classroom stimuli, so I wanted these to feed into my life as a student. [...]
Maybe my comments about Zombies were not so tangential after all! Zombie craze continues to infect popular culture posted on the BBC site today. And a curious story from earlier this summer Zombie attack: Leicester city council overrun by ‘undead’
The richer definition of uncanny provided by the Scots Dictionary confirms for me that the use of uncanny as a descriptive term when speaking about digital pedagogy is both apt and illuminating. (The following examples are purely personal and represent many hours of rumination as I drove back and forth to work.) Back in the [...]
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (online version) defines uncanny as: DSL - DOST (Uncanny,) Uncannie, adj. Also: uncany, -kannie. [Canny adj.] a. Malicious, mischievous. b. ? Aggressive, threatening. c. Unreliable, untrustworthy; incautious. — a. Sum now, vncannie sawers, sew sum causes of contentioun betuene the Chanceller and the Gouernour; Dalr. II 58/24. — b. Order to [...]
Absence. That’s been my theme and my motif for the last 2 weeks. I have been largely absent from my LifeStream. The usual bag of mixed reasons applies: a bout of flu, shaken up by a car accident (not serious), heavy workload due to assessments, dodgy internet service, a wonky laptop requiring reimaging, more dodgy [...]
The link to my visual effort “digital thali“. You can watch it frame by frame using the big central arrow under the screen or you can play it as a slideshow by clicking on the “More” button.
On the surface at least it looks as if not much has taken place on my LifeStream this week. I don’t want to flog last week’s metaphor to death but I feel as if I’ve been standing gaping at open wardrobes wondering exactly what to pack for the trip. The problem is, I feel as if [...]
I haven’t really found my “blog voice” yet and I’m acutely aware that this is a public forum. However, today saw me witness the broad cultural appeal of “Little Britain’s” recalcitrant computer smash into my personal reality prompting flashes of images from the Film Festival to pop up as it was all happening. So I’m [...]
