What does Closed mean when you are an Open Practitioner?
Lockdown life sees us all very familiar with the notion of closed. Everything, apart from supermarkets and chemists, is closed in the UK for the 3rd lockdown since this time […]
Category Archives: power
The price of freedom
This is the first Saturday since I retired that it feels like I have gained a new freedom. Strictly speaking there was one previous Saturday but that was filled with […]
Why I signed the #OpenCovid4Ed pledge
Inspired by this initiative I am dedicating this post to making explicit the reasons why I belive it to be so important at this point in history. I will be […]
Thoughts on curating #femedtech
Back at #OER17 in London I joined a small group of women meeting to sort out how we could support each other online where some of that group had experienced […]
You’ll miss them when they are gone
A reflective post and a warning for 2019. A line from Luhrmann’s song will always remind me of 2018: “be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone” […]
An accident of birth.
Many years ago, in my first year of secondary school in Leamington Spa I recited a poem in front of my English class. Our teacher had asked us to choose […]
On the case
For my final Creative Commons accreditation I decided to embark on a case study of the use of the copyright environment in the UK. I have been employed as […]
Off my own bat.
This place of contemplation attracted me during a family weekend near Bath. I love a willow tree. We had one in the garden when I was growing up. I love […]
On ownership and the American dream
In a prolonged dry spell I have started to get quite sentimental about rain. The UK is generally a damp place but for weeks now we have had hardly any […]
When society is s*it
Some the links in this post may only be available if you live in certain parts of the world I’m afraid, due to the wishes of the content owner. Firstly […]
Espace Sisyphe 