“to share anything they want with anyone they want in a natural way” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2016 – On the back of Facebook’s annual conference, it was this line that has stuck out for me. The belief that our online networks and connections are considered as natural as speaking face-to-face. These semantics do not come…
Author: Kate
Hola Chile!
I think my most commonly used word on my travels to Chile was ‘vamos’ (let’s go in English). So what took me to Chile? Gemma Tombs and I travelled 28 hours to participate in the MUSE project kick-off meeting and it was fabulous. MUSE is an Erasmus+ cofunded project that aims to grant equal access…
#cclasses alpha test with UC Irvine
I wrote a little while back about working with Liz Greebhan at UC Irvine to deliver a #phonar class and this was of course a challenge not only for her negotiating a new way of teaching her class, but for me to communicate how Jonathan and I have done it before using available technologies and…
A note on learners’ digital footprints
So yesterday I was (unsurprisingly) talking about learners’ data, not just their learning data but all their data that has been harvested over years, before they enter a university classroom. Forget digital migrants and natives, just because students are now growing up with digital technologies (I did) it doesn’t mean that they have any more…
#phonar at UC Irvine
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and I am feeling super excited about how Phonar and Phonar Nation are moving forward. Phonar always used to thrive in the autumn (or the fall for any American readers) when the undergraduate class would run, but for the first time it was unhitched from this norm… Jonathan…
Blabbing with Game Changers
As part of the Game Changers programme, I was always keen to have a global conversation to echo what gamification in learning can afford. As a learner and teacher of open programmes, I believe that the connected network has so much to offer learners, disregarding whether they are formally known as teachers or students. We…
Safer Internet Day
Safer Internet Day. What a marvellous cause to educate younglings (and their parents and trusted teachers) about how to be safer online. Yes, of course we should be encouraging ‘good’ behaviours in all walks of life and that now of course includes our digital lives as well. We teach children please and thank you; not…
Being open, private and just less ignorant
I have never really thought of myself as an activist before, for anything. Sure, I have had interests that I have felt quite passionate about, for instance it was about two years ago that I was knee-deep into researching about ‘opening’ the archive into digital environments. Luckily for me, I had a great opportunity to…
Opening the backdoor to vulnerable communities
“We don’t know how to make a backdoor that only good guys can go through” Cory Doctorow I hope that the debate over the Investigatory Powers bill is common knowledge. I know that I am particularly concerned about my online privacy and security so much so I am often met with a lot of resistance…
Paleo Banana and Blueberry Pancakes
My goodness I love whipping these up as a weekend treat. It takes just a couple of minutes to prepare so it’s super quick and makes a delicious brunch option! This is low FODMAP, gluten and dairy free (if you don’t add yoghurt afterwards) and as far as pancakes go- pretty darn healthy! To make…