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SMUDGE SKITTLE est arrivé!
The arrival of this little inventory of resources for creative researchers was every bit as anticipated and exciting as the arrival of a beaujolais nouveau. Rather than fireworks, music and lots of wine, the arrival of SMUDGE SKITTLE – and no less importantly the...
Know Your Writing* Software
It seems curious that so rarely we stop to reflect on the word processing software and other digital tools of writing we use every day, given how much work they do for us. Or how much work they do for our students – I’m thinking of you, teachers of writing…
Academics Go Walking, Talking, Writing*
* Feel free to borrow from our arrangements and experience to stage your own Walking, Talking, Writing event. We would be grateful if you made a reference to this site and passed on the link to it. Part I – Motivation A desire to organize an event for...
Literary Double-Bill
I arrive at Gus Fischer Gallery for the launch of The Three Lamps Journal at 5.30 on the dot. There are catering staff walking past with plates of sushi and bottles of Merlot so I gather I am in the right place. However, at 5.40pm there is a...
working title
Written by Toyah Webb & Bianca Rocca how to reconcile what the internet has done to me…a debris of information, collection, hoarding, storing, sharing, digesting, eating, disposing, appropriating, copying, pasting. spell check, codes, incognito, hyperlink,...
Factionalisation: Writing as a method of inquiry
Written by Toni Bruce and Esther Fitzpatrick Factionalisation is a creative method of writing research. To make sense of data generated we employ Richardson’s (1994) writing as a method of inquiry to extend sociological understanding. Narrative forms of...
Weaving knowledge, weaving words
This workshop ‘to explore a different way to think about writing as a process of harvesting, preparing, creating and presenting knowledge’ was a delight. An introduction to traditional harakeke (flax) weaving in the evocatively beautiful Waipapa marae shone a...
Weaving knowledge, weaving words
This workshop ‘to explore a different way to think about writing as a process of harvesting, preparing, creating and presenting knowledge’ was a delight. An introduction to traditional harakeke (flax) weaving in the evocatively beautiful Waipapa marae shone a...
Feeling the word
The Feeling the Word workshop was such fun, I clean forgot that I was meant to be blogging about it. Whoops! As promised in the flyer, choreographer and performance writer Dr Alys Longley invited us to think of our bodies as writing tools. Writing familiar names in...
From language to learning analytics
Given the statement above, it is disappointing that in recent years, while learning analytics (LA) has increasingly offered opportunities to monitor student learning through online assessment, the capacity to analyse students’ free text responses has not advanced as...