Blogs for teaching, learning and research: a personal collection
The blog is an established social media tool, emerging in the late 1990s as a way to publish online. A wide variety of organisations have developed ways to create a blog: mostly free, generally making the process easier, with greater flexible and ...
Top 10 places for New Year's Eve traditions (courtesy of The Guardian)
via guardian.co.uk For those who like to see a town or city animated through the careful application of a planned event or two here are a few new year's eve celebrations to keep an eye on. Some have been handed down from one generation to the next...
Networks: readings, notes and links
I???ve been soaking up quite a bit of social network literature recently as it is becoming the central theme in my PhD planning. As a focus for analysis it can often be found sharing space with discussions on social capital, yet the events literatur...
Rhodri Thomas and the politics of events evaluation
Edinburgh Napier welcomed Leeds Metropolitan???s Prof Rhodri Thomas for a handful of sessions last week. Rhodri sits within the UK Centre for Events Management at Leeds Met, hosts of 2010???s Global Congress that I wrote about in these here posts.With...
England riots: an interactive timeline (guardian.co.uk)
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian today released the first findings of its investigation into the riots which swept through some cities in England during the summer of 2011. More is to come, as they drill down into the data with a team of academics ...
December catch-up: creativity applied conference (RSA, ICC, Creative Scotland, NESTA and others)
In the short lull between teaching and marking, when I should be working directly on my PhD research, I have a chance to write up some notes from a conference I attended on 21 November 2011: Adding Value ??? Creativity Applied. Held at the Royal Col...
Photo blog: Burntisland in the November sun
Burntisland's looking great today, with a cooling breeze off the Forth. Misty too, Forth Bridges drifting in and out of sight. But where for lunch? EDIT: We went to 'Potter About' for lunch. Great big portions, decent prices and a busy/friendly at...
Testing if Posterous will autopost to Google+
This is a picture of the picture above my bed, but more importantly I've added a Google Buzz autopost to my Posterous-based website. What with Google having put Buzz to sleep I'm reasonably confident the autopost will go to G+ instead, but there's...
DREaM workshop one. (Part two of five events.)
I???m getting used to the idea that piecing together a PhD is likely to involve periods of thinking about all sections at once. Reading some expansive texts one day, which provide a theoretical context for ones ideas, is then followed by a day???s dis...
Software review: Scrivener and NVivo
As my PhD research slowly gets into gear this quick post reflects some current joy with Scrivener and potential future fun with NVivo. (The latter is largely notes to myself and might not make for great reading.)ScrivenerThere's a ten minute intro...