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 […]
Category Archives: power
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 […]
The privilege of privacy.
The first day of #oer18 is over and one of the many talking points has been around open vs private. In the wake of the Facebook data scandal and with […]
