Design
In pursuit of ultimate simplicity
It was probably a fairly offhand tweet in the first instance, but she has a point. And lately as I have been slogging through a quagmire of killing conceptual darlings in my research design for Read more…
Aside
Twittering landscape
Kandinsky, he says. Paul Klee, I’m sure. They’re making the first pictures ever made of it. A whole new landscape painting. They’re picturing the view from inside of the eye, but precisely when the migraine Read more…
Neurodivergence
Emotions
TIL: emotions are just sensory feelings that we have all agreed to put a taxonomy around…! Who knew?
Human stuff
How to get stories
The problem I have found with qualitative inquiry and specifically narrative inquiry is that it turns out you can’t just ask people questions. There’s a huge amount of groundwork involved in intentionally crafting a conceptual Read more…
Design
Hearing voices
What innovative design solutions are we overlooking because we aren’t hearing the voices of the full community? This is what I’m doing currently – finding ways to put our pedagogical and academic expertise aside and Read more…
Pedagogical rumination
Doing one’s own assessment: a small autoethnography
I recently had the somewhat unusual experience of doing assessment tasks that I had written myself, which seems like an unusual enough set of circumstances that writing something about the experience is warranted but I Read more…
Meta
a matter of convenience
I’ve been on something of an existential adventure in the last while, call it journey or transformation or rewriting or whatever you like. In all sorts of ways I have thrown myself into the pursuit Read more…