1. Communicating on the go
(Blog/Social Media)

Developing a repertoire of tools and practices for email, phone and WIFI access while I'm in different places keeps my grey hairs growing.   Between now and end of March my travel schedule looks like ...

2. Online space or a place to hang out?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... the trajectory of a group or community and its practices. It is a snapshot that, if you are not careful, misses out on all that has gone on before and on all the existing connections. Not only are all ...

3. Identity attack: new tools
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... benefits to integrating little bits of it into your day-to-day practices. And then you have to use that little bit often enough for it to become an everyday practice and part of your identity trajectory. ...

4. Time to get behind
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... Mistakes I make create a fast iterative turnover. I thrive on it. In the meantime I've come to appreciate and hold dear people who do less ... more slowly.  And I'm changing my practices ...

5. Stress - a discursive problem?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... practices? How do you present a budget to someone for the real cost of what it takes? Then there was Nancy's great off-the-cuff idea of a "slow community movement": In the rush to colonize ...

6. Connectivity as place
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... as complex as the negotiation of all human relationships. The technology is probably the easiest bit. It's social practices, personal discipline, imagination and risk-taking which are the hardest. ...

7. What makes something a place?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... and shared practices? For me this inquiry is to help me understand better which "things" go into creating a sense of place - for documents, conversations, relationships. I want to know more about ...

8. In the absence of governance
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... be an every-day part of our individual and social practices.    Meantime, my daughter sends me this story from Rio in Brazil: yesterday I went to the favela Vigario Geral for the first time ...

9. The story of a platform
(Blog/Social Media)

... platform . It tells some of the story - but what you don't see are the everyday decisions and practices that go into developing a platform, each one of which reflects a worldview, a set of values, ...

10. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

Genre, discourse, discursive practices .... they are the glue that ties everything together for me! I wrote on my website back in 2004 this as I thought I was getting close to finishing my doctorate! ...

11. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

... a similar sequence of interactions: they have started online, moved to a face-to-face meeting and returned to further online interactions .  During these events we have developed certain practices ...

12. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... Nielson, http://www.ids.ac.uk/gdn/tools/writing.htm) but rather to make some suggestions for policy makers in Higher Education Institutions which could promote the international image and practices of ...

13. ILO/AIDs: Session Facilitator
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

ILO/AIDs and the World of Work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Facilitating the knowledge practices and peer-to-peer learning at a three day face-to-face Workshop on "HIV/AIDs Prevention and Impact Mitigation ...

14. Recent Publications
(Portfolio/Publications)

... this page. Mavor, S. & Trayner, B. (2003) “Exclusion in international online learning communities”. In Electronic Learning Communities: Current Issues and Best Practices, Reisman, S. (eds) ...

15. Inclusion/Exclusion or 'Clusion (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... communities, in S. Reisman (ed), Electronic Learning Communities - current issues and best practices. Conneticut: Information Age Publishing, 457- 488. SIMON, R.I (1992) Teaching against the grain: ...

16. Intercultural Communication: some viewing lenses (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... culture-as-social-relations (including power) and inter-cultural practices, culture-as-narrative and inter-cultural dialogue. CULTURE-AS-ESSENCE Over the years I’ve struggled between satisfaction ...

17. Multiliteracies: a theoretical overview (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... Education and Training . Literacies (not Literacy), literacy practices and mutimodal literacies greatly affects my approach and designs for learning. The links on this blog mostly reflect the increasingly ...

18. Meta Thoughts
(Category)

Thinking about things like thinking, discourse, epistemology, power and ethics. It's where I can indulge myself in talking aloud about books I've read, narrative inquiry, discursive practices and ...