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Mark Holloway
@markgh.bsky.social
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Father, husband, #WBA supporter. Making slow progress with an Ed D on the value of the Personal in Writing (I think) while working in Higher Education. Still believe in education as a force for good.
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This was a brilliant session. Proud of the scruffy by meaningful artefacts I took away from it. #ALDCON25
A collage, an envelope, and some hand written notes.
June 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Room with a(n amazing) view for #ALDCON25 Day Two.
Greenwich Park on a sunny day. A half-open window with a view out onto Greenwich Park. A person speaking in a lecture theatre. There are three windows with views out onto a green park.
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Brilliant day at #ALDCON25. Enjoyed thinking, learning, and talking about embedding academic skills, the vital human-ness of writing, transitions, metaphors, data, and criticality. Managed to curate my day so that Daniel Pearce was the headline act…and what an amazing location. Beautiful.
Greenwich University under a blue sky. Sharon Perera and Amy Sampson presenting on an online pre-arrival course for students at the University of Greenwich. Deborah O’Neill giving a presentation on metaphors for Further and Higher Education in Scotland. Daniel Pearce from the University of Hertfordshire presenting on his research and practice in the use of documentary films to teach critical thinking skills.
June 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Loved learning about brilliant work done by @djrgrey.bsky.social and @katrinanavickas.bsky.social at #HertsImpactSymposium2025 today. New additions to my vocabulary: “baby farm” and “settlement house”.
Graphical notes on a presentation by Daniel Grey. Daniel Grey and Katrina Navickas presenting. A panel discussion on a state with a backdrop of graphical notes on a series of presentations.
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Important takeaway from #HertsImpactSymposium2025 : everyone should subscribe to @cilloyd.bsky.social’s Books Up Close podcast : youtube.com/@booksupclos...
Chris Lloyd presenting at the Herts Impact Symposium
June 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Fascinated by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social livescribing (on the left) at #HertsImpactSymposium2025
A speaker at a conference standing at a podium with two large screens behind him. One features a slide featuring the conference title; the other slide features a live drawing - graphical notes being taken to tell the story of the symposium.
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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“First, they laid claim to resources that were not their own, but they designed rules that suggested that they were their own.”
Screenshot of a transcript of the podcast linked to in a previous post. The words are: What do you mean by that? If you think about the long history of European colonialism and empires of old, there were several characteristics of empires of old. First, they laid claim to resources that were not their own, but they designed rules that suggested that they were their own. They exploited a lot of labor, as in they either didn't pay the labor or they paid that labor very, very little. And they were in a fierce competition for domination. And that was justification for why they had to be an empire and why they had to exploit all that labor and extract all those resources. They also did this under a civilizing mission.
May 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Bee-ing
A bee seeking pollen from purple salvia flowers.
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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“The journey will only properly come into being with the diary that I shall write”.
A cartoon illustration on a map embarking on a voyage, suitcase in hand and map under his arm. A speech bubble contains the words “THE JOURNEY WILL ONLY PROPERLY COME INTO BEING WITH THE DIARY THAT I SHALL WRITE.”
May 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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It’s the third of May.
The Third of May, a painting by Francisco Goya depicting captured insurgents being lined up against a wall and shot.
May 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Cornwall is a bit special.
The waterfall at St Nectarn’s Glen, near Tintagel in Cornwall.
April 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Took me 21 seconds to change this lightbulb… 🙄
April 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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6 pages into #MoreThanWords and @biblioracle.bsky.social is delivering brilliantly!
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The keep-cups and the man-bags that your grandad would have wept to see you buying. #studyday
A grey Manhattan Portage messenger bag and a ‘natural’ coloured Huskee keep-cup on the driver’s seat of a frankly crap car.
February 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM