I made 2 visits to Little Sparta this year. The first was on the most glorious summers day, blue skies, bird song and the landscape in hyper-sharp technicolour. Little Sparta is best described as a garden in attack, not a rural retreat. It is the … Continue reading Poetical escapades
Japanese plate
A visit to an antiques fair yesterday prompted me to finish this thought… Japanese plate, 18th century. Called Imari-ware after the export port, but most likely made in kilns in Arita. Probably exported to Europe by a Dutch trading company in the 1700s, maybe before … Continue reading Japanese plate
Disorder of the future
Some stuff went down on the internet around an op-ed that Cathy O’Neil wrote in the New York Times about algorithms and accountability. I’ve no interest in being drawn into the kick-back, but it did force me to think about the extent to which the … Continue reading Disorder of the future
Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS
After noodling about on my own domain a while ago with various formats, I created a real live SPLOT using the Splotpoint theme to support a participatory session that I ran recently, and it’s worth picking into what about it worked for me, because I … Continue reading Internet Transmitted Infections – I’ve got the SPLOTS
MozFest Reflections
This post was also posted on the Association for Learning Technologists blog. This year was my fourth trip to MozFest – the annual global gathering of the Mozilla Foundation. The event has been held in Ravensbourne College in London for the last 7 years and … Continue reading MozFest Reflections
Finding Purpose with Girl Geeks
I promised last night at the Girl Geek Scotland event that I would write up a blog post about the workshop that I ran, so here it is. I’ve been volunteering with Girl Geek Scotland’s Mentoring strand of activities during 2017 and last night was … Continue reading Finding Purpose with Girl Geeks
Replaying highlights from the last year
This is largely a paper that I wrote for our September 2017 Learning and Teaching Committee. The paper is available as Paper K here. Just in case anyone wants to know what I’ve been working on for the last 12 months… —————– Information Services Group … Continue reading Replaying highlights from the last year
Another story about maps
I’m on my way to London for my fourth #MozFest and as I’ve already written about, this year I’m running a session along with Alice White, the Wikimedian in Residence for the Wellcome Library. We’re doing a session in which we hope to make the … Continue reading Another story about maps
#MozFest Cometh
This time next week I should be in London at Ravensbourne art college for my fourth MozFest experience. *Finally* Martin Hawksey is attending and he’s gone all out and is even running a session. The lovely people of ALT will be there talking about CMALT. … Continue reading #MozFest Cometh
Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be
Today is Ada Lovelace Day and this has become a firm fixture in our calendar at the University of Edinburgh. It is one of our flagship Wikipedia editathon events, and this year we partnered with the School of Chemistry and took the event on the … Continue reading Wikipedia is a very lovely place to be