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Milan Kundera: The unbearable lightness of being
Restless night, Dream about writing and about the books I am reading. Up around 4.30 a.m. Online to Blog. I feel I need to get some ideas down, to ‘externalise’ once again this conversation I have with...
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Anais Nin on giving her life meaning
How many seek solace in the journals of a woman in France in the 1930′s? I’ve fallen in love with Anais Nin and Henry Miller and wish, even if it only meant being Richard Osborne to their relationship,...
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David Pelzer author of ‘A Boy Called it’ has some life lessons to share.
Dave Pelzer author of ‘A Boy Called it’ his some tips on sticking to your plans; Life Lessons I like this book for its simplicity; it is also very short. Five or six ideas are enough to keep in your...
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Who do you present to the world when you’re online?
In the first moments of a conversation with Dr B Price Kerfoot on Skype did he not think what I was thinking? That the public images we had of each other were probably a decade old? I didn’t take a...
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The Open University Merry-go-round. Join a course, do another and never get...
Were I back on the H807 Merry-go-round, I’d love to do the Innovations in E-Learning module over again … indeed, given the pace of change maybe a three year refresher is required. I’d have loved some...
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Life according to Anais Nin, Samuel Pepys and Henry Miller
Life’s a Game of Pinball I would have been the witch doctor in a tribe, The pinball that kicks away from the small black hole, Disappears, then comes back for more. I’m the ball which gets flipped and...
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What can Steve Jobs teach us about life, ideas and business?
Getting to the end of the 600 page biography I struggle to draw a conclusion. Perhaps he was Janus like, always looking in two directions, impish, black and white, loved it or hated it. Able to bend....
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Timelines, theories and technologies
This is a learning dilemma that will become increasingly prevalent. You have a stinker of a complex mass of resources and cobbled together ideas to compile into some kind of order only to find that it...
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What is the point in playing chess if you let a computer give you the answers...
The act of playing chess, and the process of thinking it through is the joy and the learning. What will be the point as or once all the answers are online? Where we let algorithms and the Web provide...
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What will the impact be of the Web on education? How is knowledge sharing and...
Fig. 1. Father and daughter From four or five months after conception with the formation of the brain, to the moment of brain death we have the capacity to learn, subconsciously as well as...
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I find reflection spiralling out of control into an extra-terrestrial...
At the macro level reflection for me is on the scale, and of equal significance to Douglas Adams and ‘The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and the Meaning of Life and Everything.’ I find reflection...
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Pen and ink drawing class at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Fig.1 Chair and shade It was like being back at school: though the ratio of 15 women to 3 men felt like I’d gate-crashed the girl school’s class down the road; I was educated in all male schools from...
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Escape
From NSSC 3AUG14 ARK Fig. 1 Five Lasers, like butterflies Helming the boat that set the buoys for this race (it’s called ‘Ark’) I got this shot and likened it to butterflies in the back garden. I so...
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