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Quick New Year Reflection

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I was looking back at older blogs and realised that I hadn't wrote anything reflective around this time of year - mainly out of fear of being a massive bloggin' cliche. What I've realised is that you can't avoid being reflective at the start of a new year - and ...

Amplified 2008

Monday, December 1st, 2008

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image Courtesy of Phil Campbell"]     Image Courtesy of Benjamin Ellis   Last Thursday, I dragged my pre-man-flu self down to London to visit Nesta's headquarters for Amplified 08 - a non-conference to bring together creatives, practitioners, academics - or indeed anyone that was interesting in social media - who had taken part in previous events ...

An (Honest) Account of TA assessment

Friday, November 21st, 2008

  Week 8 into Semester one and my 6th week of teaching (ever) and I had my teaching assistant assessment from my boss (aka the course leader). It happened to coinside with one of my busiest weeks of presentations - 3 hours, 3 seperate seminars and 9 presentations between them. From ...

Just a few things…

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I think I am well over-due a blog entry. I've been spending the last few weeks sorting out a few things (and moving house, again!) and preparing myself for the looming January Ph.D. start date. I got my Masters result a few weeks ago and if all goes to plan, I will be graduating ...

And so it begins…

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I've finally finished and submitted my MA dissertation (woo, yay!) recently started working as part of the Small Worlds project (which is associated with the University of Leicester) - AJ Cann launched the project yesterday - and I think his short seesmic video sums up the gist of the project ...