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Last Friday's UKLA research symposium gave us multiple perspectives on children's writing. Debbie Wells-Rowe opened with a critica...

I'm currently writing a piece based around The Trashmaster . The Trashmaster is of interest from several points of view: it is an exampl...

With a bit of help some of the problems associated with Barnsborough seem to have been circumvented. Yesterday, Chris, one of the teachers w...

When I find myself constantly gnawing at an idea, it usually means its got something to offer me. This is the case with Cathy's notion ...

Research, like photography, is a selective record of things that have already happened. The writing of research is inevitably retrospective,...

3 years ago my mother was taken ill, she was hospitalised, and never returned home again. She had 2 Siamese cats and I brought them up here ...

I caught an interesting segment on the radio today which was about bare-knuckle boxing in the early C19th. Given that I'm reading Bonnie...

I just wrote a paper called 'Mobile practices in everyday life' - and now, stepping back from that work I find myself wondering abou...

My blog is like an old friend - I like to keep company with it on a regular basis - even if it's just to give narrative fragments of my ...

In everyday uses of the word, literacy associates with being able to read and write. But making meaning, by locating, organizing, and unde...

I'm not sure where the media obsession with food came from - it seems to fill the newspapers and swamp the TV schedules. Perhaps I shoul...

At the CSU technology symposium, we were once again alerted to the ways in which our casual searching behaviours may be shaped by search eng...

This is actor Jack Thompson, ending with a Riverina rhyme. Many thanks to Barney Dalgarno for this link. At the risk of undermining the en...

I had a great day at the symposium organised by the Technology and Teaching Practice Group at CSU. The presentations were great and in fac...

I went for a cycle ride at the weekend. Riding round Lake Albert I thought of three possible future for education. They are: Deletion scho...

OK, so when you have a bit of down time, what do you do? Well, I'm always drawn to the places with the most interesting names. I remembe...

Reading Bauman is a bit like listening to Leonard Cohen. He's either gloomy and predictable, or sad and beautiful, depending on your fra...

What might the study of literacies look like if it was set free from its histories of theory, its well-rehearsed models and research routine...

Wagga Wagga is a great little place. There's a picture of the Lagoon I took yesterday evening. I'm so fortunate to be so well looked...

I looked in the mirror this morning, saw my face, and thought well there's the history of use. That's after more than 20 hours of fl...