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The Martian Way
Recently picked up this Isaac Asimov collection of four short stories, with this interesting sixties cover. I’m trying my technique of some post reading doodles to help my memory, and enjoyment. It was new to do short stories, and good to pause at the end to do a little drawing. I think I need to watch that I don’t try to illustrate the story, but instead take bits that will act as signposts for me.
The Blind Assassin
My post reading sketchnote from ‘The Blind Assassin’ by Margaret Atwood. It took a while for me to get into it, but then it was really enjoyable. Some evocative passages and convincing backdrop to a well told story. The multiple narratives and switches never felt contrived.
Drive Sketchnotes
Really enjoyed this book, and my notes don’t do it justice. I’ve captured the main points but left out all the comprehensive references to studies. I need to revist the third part of the book, which was a practical toolkit.
Open Education Practioner badge ideas
Whilst posting my sketchnotes from the OER15 conf a good question was asked about how to share and attribute the pics I was posting on twitter. I realised that I didn’t have any licencing info on the notes so rectified that by putting a ‘CC-BY’ on the sketchnotes, and creating a definitive place for them to live.
Cable Green - OER15 Keynote
Cable talked about how to move from policy to implementation for Open Education.
Panel Session - OER15
A panel discussion around policy for OER around the world.
Teresa Mackinnon - OER15
Issues in creating and using video resources for language teaching.
Paul Bacsich - OER15
Policy development to support OER in Wales
Nicole Allen - OER15
Open Government Partnership as a platform for advancing Open Education policy
Josie Fraser - OER15 Keynote
Josie Fraser’s keynote was about the reality of making Open Education happen.
Sheila MacNeill - OER15 Keynote
Sheila’s keynote was about ‘Openwashing’ and Open Practitioners.
The Cost of Not Going Open - OER15
The cost of not going open! - public session
Lightning talks - OER15
Two short papers - OER in schools and FE/skills
Lightning Talks - OER15
A short paper and two lightning talks.
Martin Weller - OER15 Keynote
Martin talked about how OER community need to take control of the narrative, to challenge different versions of history around Open.
Left Hand of Darkness
Recently read ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ by Ursula LeGuin, and frustrated with the amount of books I’ve read and enjoyed that have subsequently evaporated from my memory, I decided to sketchnote a summary of what I remembered immediately having finished convinced that it will ‘fix’ it more permanently.
Process Improvement Training Sketchnotes
Sketchnotes from a ‘Process Improvement Training’ workshop.
Jeannel King - Draw Forth the Book Inside you
Synchronicity is cool - was just thinking about how to write this book that i’ve started, and along came this brill google hangout.
dhh-railsconf2014
We all got some homework to watch this keynote on writing good software. It was enjoyable and thought provoking. Been a while since I’ve done a youtube video - the opportunity to pause (but not too often) makes it a little more relaxing.
Ollie Wells - What has User Experience ever done for us?
Nice examples of product design illustrating user experiences. Also liked the distinction of customer/user experience.