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Scholarship
I have a very vivid memory of first hearing the word 'scholarship'.
I was sitting on the floor in a morning assembly at the Buckley...
Space and Place
Background
I am becoming more and more interested in space and place.
In this blog I have posted about Hometown Memories, Learning Spaces and the emergence...
Of Personal Experience and Research Questions
Last December I posted an extract from my PhD thesis.
In this post I share my introduction to the thesis (written in 1989). I do...
Small and Connected
A few days ago I received a beautiful photograph.
Our daughter Beth sent us a picture of our granddaughter's first pair of shoes.
The smallness of...
Lloyd Lowell Messersmith and the Origins of Notational Analysis
Background
This is a revised version of a paper I wrote in 1994 to celebrate the life and work of Lloyd Lowell Messersmith.
I reproduce it...
Open Language
UCNISS submitted an open tender to the Australian Paralympic Committee this week.
We submitted a proposal to produce A History of the Paralympic Movement in...
Wireless Experience
I have been thinking about wireless systems this week.
At the weekend I was in Tasmania using a wireless Internet connection that gave me access...
Knowledge, Control, Switches
It is forty years since the publication of Michael F D Young's Knowledge and Control. This week I was reminded of this influential publication...
Goal Scoring in Association Football: Charles Reep
Background
Back in 1996 I had an opportunity to meet Charles Reep at his home near Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
I spent a day in...
Fate and Fortune?
This week has thrown up a number of opportunities for me to contemplate fate and fortune.
In my synchronous life I have attended a selection...
