Participation Communication Process Creativity Feedback Reflection These are all words that, for me, are synonymous with aspects of good teaching and learning. I didn’t always use all of these in the context of ‘open’ the way I do now. Why the change? I was never against the idea, and I think I always practiced both …
We’ve all heard about thinking outside the box. How about thinking outside the bucket? What about thinking outside… Outside the discipline? Outside the medium? How about opening your mind beyond the box? In couple of recent classes I asked my students to show me music. I did’t want an essay – did’t want to have …
The project that has become Musiquality is actually hitting the road. I jump on the plane in two days, followed two days later by the other 5 in the group. When this started back in September – as a fleck of excitement in a skype call – we had no idea where it would go …
(1 min read) It’s sort of that time of year- lots going on, lots of activity, lots of lots. We went away. Not away from the people, in fact we’ve been a sea of people, but away from the routine, away from the habit, away from mountain of lots to do, and I learned to …
Yesterday I found myself running. running from a lecture to the train running from the train to the tube running to another meeting running to reply to the emails running and running and running and then I stopped. I have a weekly meeting that, at the moment, keeps me grounded in hope, friendship, and a …
Photo CC licensed here: http://bit.ly/1sKGYNL (3 min read) Last night’s #ccourses webinar had some really inspiring moments, and several people picked up on Howard Rheingold saying “if you’re not falling off it, you’re really not exploring the edge.” (the full quote is below, and timestamps are from within the webinar for reference) This really resonated with me. …
I loved the Daily Connect suggested by @dogtrax where we were invited to write something and various long-established writers would also contribute. It took me back to childhood days of playing on our Texas Instruments computer with a programme called Eliza. As far as I was concerned it was a great game where you had …
This is a story of a connection that spans time, continents, and generations. It started with a glance at my ‘others’ message box on facebook. You know, if you aren’t friends with someone (and yes, my security settings are that way inclined) then if they message you it stays hidden in this ‘other’ box without …
1 min read Just up! What makes a melody? It’s week two of MUS654 in Chichester (England), and the second session is here! … well on the link above (or via the dropdown menu), and it starts like this: Pitch is everywhere… How are pitch and melody related? Last week you we explored the experience …
(in response to the #ccourses question Why do you teach?) 1 min read This is me: I have always been hungry – hungry to learn, hungry to know and connect to people, and hungry for homemade chocolate chip cookies (I completely blame my sugar-coated childhood for that one). As for the question why? Why is one …