Workshop/Conference Posts

Resonance has been a recurring theme for me over the past year, and this particular piece of music has afforded

Cello Weekend April 9-10 2022

This year the Cello Weekend is back! Saturday / Sunday April 9-10, 2022 at the University of Chichester, Bishop Otter

ESTA Summer School 2020

This August I'll be welcoming lots of string players to the University of Chichester Conservatoire for the European String Teachers

Cello Weekend 2020

Saturday / Sunday April 18-19 Time: 10am-4:30pm Venue: University of Chichester Workshops Masterclasses Cello orchestra Chamber music The Chichester

Cello Weekend 2018 in Review

It seems a lifetime ago that the 2018 Cello Weekend happened. Two very full months ago a wonderful cross-section of

OER18 Reflections

This morning at OER, I typed as I listened to the keynote. David Wiley started with definitions. (featured image CC-0

Cello Weekend 2018: April 14-15, 2018

Registration is open for this year's Cello Weekend! Email me for details...

Ukes from the UK: Musiquality in California 2018

A week ago I was in Los Angeles with a small group of my students and one of my colleagues.

Pushing the boat out: Creativity in the Open

Kamloops. Creativity in the Open. Out in the open. The Wilderness stretches as far as the eye can see, and

Applied Imagination: I think, therefore I can

Yes you can. That's a powerful refrain in my life, and it underpins so very very much. I had the

Value of Creative Education

@laura_ritchie modelling our own practice as creative educators in different medium @HerefordArtsCol —Sarah-Jane (@sarahjfc) 20 September 2017 I felt privileged

California Dreaming - the book

I haven't written on this blog in a very long time. Academically it is the busy season... strange though, classes

Making music everywhere: Cello Weekend 2017

Music everywhere. Cellos everywhere. Smiles, laughter, learning, good work, new strings, new learning. It is difficult to sum up what

California Dreaming: The Musiquality Book

Nearly there! In 2015 a group of my university students and I had an extraordinary adventure as we set to

Feedback is all around us: SEDA Workshop 2016

Linking Skills, Feedback, and Assessment to develop Student Agency and Achievement That was the title of my workshop at

BEST Ukuleles #OER16

I did bring a suitcase of ukuleles to #OER16 in Edinburgh. It was as part of the BEST (Build Engage Solve

California Dreamin'

I've had another adventure in learning and teaching... and sometimes when things are so good, it is hard to begin

#HEAOpen is here!

Embracing Open Learning Today's the day! I'm running a day long workshop for the

Embracing Open 20 Jan

Participation Communication Process Creativity Feedback Reflection These are all words that, for me, are synonymous with aspects of good teaching

I got something to say.

Every day is a journey in learning and life and this past year has been no exception. I remember starting

Musiquality at RAISE15

Many thanks to Fiona Harvey for live streaming our presentation at the RAISE (Researching, Advancing, and Inspiring Student Engagement) conference in

A story of connection

A friend of mine asked for some stories of connection for an upcoming conference presentation he is giving... and here's

Music and the soul

This morning a friend shared this, page 155 from the Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, (it comes right after the

#Musiquality adventures in Open Source Learning

The first Open Source Learning collaboration has happened... We did it! Six of us on this side of the pond

Leaving on a jet plane! #Musiqulity

Well we're crossing the pond! Here are some very excited faces at the unreal hour of 6am... on the way

It has begun. #Musiquality

The project that has become Musiquality is actually hitting the road. I jump on the plane in two days, followed

The sounds of many cellos, and a soprano, and a harp, oh, and some cups

The Cello Weekend 2015 was a blast! We had 26 cellos playing together as an orchestra, and throughout the two

Just a dollar....

This is a #Musiquality update, and boy am I proud of what we have been able to accomplish. Where are

Projects, projectiles, and provocations

I haven't blogged in a few weeks and time has been slipping through my fingertips. Oh, there's been plenty on- Many

Instrumental Disruption

Reflections on my surprise visit to the two-day Expo at Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab. I presented a session over

When you dare to ask...

#Musiquality is one big adventure: Me, 5 students, 5,000 miles, raising a whole load of money to cover costs and

The Resonance of #Phonar

It all began at the HEA conference in July 2014. Jonathan Worth and I were both presenting on behalf of

#Muisquality update

I was interviewed yesterday about the project - you know - this whole co-learning California recording music adventure that my

Cello Weekend 2015 Join us!

Registration is open for this year's Cello Weekend. Email me for details!

#Phonar. yes, this was very very very ...

I love teaching spaces that make me smile even before anything happens. When I walked into the Disruptive Media Learning

Connecting, allowing, and learning

Over the past month I have had the privilege of going to both the University East Anglia and the University

Keynote at UEA 3 Sept. 2014

HEA Conference 2014: Experiential Learning 'Speaking through Sound'

This is an extract from what one of the participants, Dr. Fabio Aricò, had to say about the session at

Something's Happening: what they said...

Something's Happening was an HEA funded, day long workshop run by NTFs at the Arts University Bournemouth. I was one