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Columba Learning:
Giving a Voice to South Africa’s Youth

Posted on September 1, 2016 by John Connell

I have visited South Africa many times in the past, but my most recent trip, just last month, in August 2016, has undoubtedly given me a wonderful experience th...

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Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...

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The Tree of Creativity

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

The world has already moved beyond the point where we need professional mediation to create, for example, a polished piece of video. Anyone today can choose to ...

Books/Creativity/Internet/Learning/Media/Teaching/Technology/Web

Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!

Posted on February 17, 2015 by John Connell

Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...

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The Obligation to Daydream

Posted on October 20, 2013 by John Connell

Neil Gaiman, in the Guardian Review, 19 October 2013: Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in A...

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