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July 18, 2024
A little ill, a lot slower and all because of STRESS - a warning to any individual who actually wants to get somewhere
Blog post originally published in 2014.
This post is as much of a reminder to me, as it is a warning for others... enduring high levels of ongoing stress is just not worth the cost to your gener...
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Classrooms and Technology - Understanding Language - weeks 2&3 reflection #FLlanguage #MOOC
Blog post originally published in 2014.
I believe that the current expansion into online learning is starting to change this and all these MOOCs offer additional study resources for students ...
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The web is not an exact science - Web Science - week 1 reflection #FLwebsci #MOOC
Blog post originally published in 2014.
Web Science is inherently transdisciplinary as it employs many analytical techniques and knowledge bases from other subjects, such as economics, law, psy...
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Information is an asset - Introduction to Cyber Security - completion reflection #FLsecurity #MOOC
Blog post originally published in 2014.
Successful and vigilant cyber security requires a proactive attitude in order to maintain your current situation and to be on the look out for new updat...
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Do you take my meaning? Understanding Language - Week 1 Reflection #FLlanguage #MOOC
Blog post originally published in 2014.
The emphasis of the first week of the Understanding Language MOOC has been focused on the theory behind language learning, as explored through a consider...
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Academic Integrity: Values, Skills, Actions MOOC - completion reflection #FLintegrity
Blog post originally published in 2014.
The Academic Integrity MOOC as hosted on FutureLearn is very much aimed at students about to undertake undergraduate study and it certainly lays down the...
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Ways #2Learn: expanding my focus by expanding this blog's focus
Blog post originally published in 2014.
I am finding that my creative entrepreneurial practice and self-directed postgraduate study is proving to be vastly more beneficial and fulfilling than a...
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Learning how to Learn #MOOC: Reflective Essay about a Learning Challenge
Blog post originally published in 2014.
Currently I am undertaking the Learning how to Learn: powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects MOOC by UC San Diego that is hosted on Courser...
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Why #2Interface: expanding my focus + focusing my interests = mastering the enterprising researcher
Blog post originally published in 2014.
In truth, Ways 2 Interface is the presentation and exploration of a very broad research interest, opposed to being a research project in the traditional sen...
Read MoreJuly 17, 2024
Complexity Specific Accuracy from the Outset: The Perceiving Participator and the Spectacle Experiencing Situation
Blog post originally published in 2014.
What do we mean or what should we mean when we talk of a 'spectator' and a 'spectacle'? In this post I provide an example of a complexity specific reclas...
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Consuming while being content: 'consumer' + 'content' = IDEAL?
Blog post originally published in 2014.
From the cave walls of long ago, via digital content creation, 'Batman Begins', 'The Dark Knight' and Apple, to the ideal at the heart of our perceptions...
Read MoreJuly 15, 2024
Spectatorship redux: why we need to re-understand the spectator and the spectacle
Blog post originally published 2014.
"I am going to watch a film," when this common statement is expressed, you are exerting a fundamental ignorance hardwired into the human intellect; yet, it i...
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