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Australian Paralympic History Project: October 2018 Workshop
Workshop participants The Australian Paralympic History Project held a workshop in Sydney on the weekend of 27 and 28 October. Tony Naar shared news of the workshop on the Project’s Facebook page...
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#EL30 Graphing
Week 3 of Stephen Downes’ E-Learning 3.0 course is looking at Graphs. Stephen recommended some resources for this topic. These included: Vaidehi Joshi’s (2017) gentle introduction to graph theory. In...
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A Fra Mauro kind of week
Fra Mauro was a cartographer. He lived in the Republic of Venice in the fifteenth century. I found out about him in James Cowan’s (1997) A Mapmaker’s Dream. In that account, Fra Mauro welcomed...
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Making sense of data practices
Laura Ellis has been writing this week about solving business problems with data (link). The alert to her post came shortly after another link had taken me back to a presentation by Dan Weaving in...
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Performance Analytics and Pedagogy
Some recent posts have encouraged me to think about pedagogy for a new age of performance analytics in sport. It started with Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel‘s speakerdeck Let them eat cake (first)! (link)....
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Discovering Ma
By chance, I heard someone talking about ma today. It was a conversation about minimalism and architecture. Ma is a Japanese term. The Unique Japan web site (link) observes: Ma is something that...
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Sharing research journeys
Researchers have some important decisions to make about the ways they share their discoveries. Back in 2017, I was struck by Biecek Przemysław and Marcin Kosiński’s discussion of the use of the R...
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Augmenting, interacting, reflecting
I have revisited Douglas Engelbart’s 1962 paper Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (link). I did so after Mark Upton shared links with me to Dan McQuillan’s Towards an anti-fascist AI...
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Paul’s PhD
Paul Perkins (link) is about to submit his PhD at the University of Canberra. His title is Can a modified, low-risk form of boxing achieve significant community uptake? It is the culmination of a...
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Sharing news
Each week an O’Reilly newsletter arrives in my email inbox. I am not sure when I signed up but I am delighted I did. This week the newsletter brought an article by Avinash Kaushik titled Responses to...
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Writing a report
Earlier this week, Avinash Kaushik wrote about Responses to Negative Data (link). Shortly after his post was published, I found a link to a Turing Institute blog post, written by Franz Kiraly, What is...
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Microcontent: narratives and attention
How do online courses engage learners? Alan Levine explores this issue in a post titled Seeking Answers: Can a Narrative Tie a Course Together? (link). He asks “what would it take to apply a...
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Connecting
A couple of days ago, Maha Bali wrote about connecting virtually (link). I was very interested in the ways she explored personal and continuing learning in her post. Part of her experience was...
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Microcontent: a Common Microcredential Framework
The European MOOC Consortium has launched a Common Microcredential Framework to create portable credentials for lifelong learners (link). I see this move as an important step in the creation of...
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My Project
Back in June 2008, I started writing this WordPress blog (link). I had written on other blogs before and had first dipped my toes with Geocities in the late 1990s. In 2008, I was emboldened by CCK08...
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Appropriate?
I have spent some time discussing learning in recent weeks. In one of my conversations, I spoke with my daughter, Beth, about her interest in approriate technology. I was really impressed with her...
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Collecting data from the Women’s Football World Cup 2019
I am delighted there are so many ways to collect data from this year’s Women’s World Cup football tournament (FIFA link). I have data going back to the 2011 Tournament (link). These are shared on my...
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Looking at win probability
I was following some data live on the Australia v Brazil group game at the 2019 FIFA World Cup (link). It was the first time I had noticed that a Live Win Probability was being used in this way and I...
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Cowplot
Earlier today, Mara Averick shared news of Claus Wilke’s cowplot package (link). Claus has an introduction to the new features of cowplot (link) and a more detailed set of all vignettes (link)....
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George Box and Robustness
Earlier this week, I worked my way through Giora Simchoni’s presentation on Deep Visual Inference: Teaching Computers To See Rather Than Calculate Correlation (link). One of Giora’s slides was: As...
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