Another visit to my beloved Mansfield Traquair Centre this evening. 17 years on and it still takes my breath away. To have the responsibility and the stewardship of a place like this a privilege. This evening was the Friends AGM. Formal business was blessedly succinct. … Continue reading Open for all
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
