The Ed Techie
Martin Weller's blog on open education, digital scholarship & over-stretched metaphors
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Oct 26 Round-up
One aspect of my old existence that still persists is that of examining PhDs. This was always one of the roles I enjoyed the most. Last month I went to Sligo, where I examined a PhD along with my good friend Tom Farrelly. It was successful and as always I learnt a lot about a…
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First Novel vs Second Album Syndrome
I have a bit of a theory about why people talk about first novel, but second album, syndrome. As I’m no longer an academic, I can just have a theory and don’t need to back it up with evidence or citations, so here goes. First novel syndrome is usually characterised by…
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Rambling about curiosity
I was thinking about curiosity the other day, so now you have to suffer through my rambling thoughts. What brought it to mind was a couple of conversations I’ve had with people recently, where they exhibited a distinct lack of curiosity. I have some sympathy with this because,…
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Sept 26 Round-up
Despite being retired, September still has a back-to-school feel about it. After an enjoyable (but hot) summer it was good to get back to my desk again (and to wear jumpers). Things I enjoyed this month: The massive facepalm of the republicans thinking they had a gotcha moment…
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Flow vs Grind
No, this is not a comparison of dating sites, but rather a reflection on recent writing experience. I’ve published my second novel (I know, why haven’t mentioned this before?), and the writing of that came pretty easily. The characters led the plot and it flowed fairly quickly,…
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Hold me back
It seems that periodically we get a story about how AI vendors are fearful about the awesome, apocalyptic power of their tech, and for God’s sake, won’t someone stop them. There’s been a recent round of this from Anthropic. I’ve wondered what the intent behind these stories was,…
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Life beyond ed tech
As part of the DS106 Radio Summer Camp, I did a session with Clint Lalonde on life after ed tech. I’ve been retired for two years and Clint is heading for retirement. We’ve both been in open and ed tech fro a while so thought it would be fun to discuss things outside of that…
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August 26 round-up
It’s been an August which saw severe drought across the UK, and wild fires raging in South Wales, so we went to bed with acrid fumes every night. Against this backdrop there are plans to build huge data centres in Cardiff which will use water, generate fumes and add to…
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Publication day
My new horror novel, The H-Index, is coming out on the 1st September. As an indie horror writer all of the promotion comes down to you. But luckily there are so many services willing to take my money to do it also! Some of these are better than others. Here’s what I’ve tried:…
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The Death of an Academic
Like most people working in higher ed, I was horrified by the treatment and death of Professor Jason Arday. It was naked racism, purely and obviously. As a white man, I don’t have the voice to speak to that pain, so here are some Black writers who put it more eloquently than I…