I can relate to this
Debbie WisemanAudio player: Debbie Wiseman : Desert Island Discs"Take me through your working day," said Kirsty Young.
If I've got a deadline
I love very, very, early in the morning
The best time of day because there is nobody around, its quiet
I love between 6 and 9
There's something about having to focus
If I didn't have a deadline I'd sit at the piano and waffle; I'd procrastinate.
Do you relate to this?
Owl or lark?!
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| From E-Learning IV |
Fig. 1. Malcolm Gladwell - Desert Island Discs
A fascinating insight to someone who connects the latest thinking from all kinds of disciplines and often gives senior academics a drubbing. He challenges anyone who suggests that the Internet is damaging the brains of the connected youth to come up with the research; actually, between them, the OU and Australian Universities have thus far shown that as far as their brains and our brains are concerned it's business as usual.
Like so many episodes of Desert Islands Discs a magical way to learn something new or to gain a deeper insight into someone.
Fig. 1. Edmund de Waal - Ceramics and Creative Writing
In discussion on Desert Island Discs this week. Some marvellous insights into his take on the creative process - the confidence to make it up if it all goes wrong, as Ella Fitzgerald does in the particular track he chooses of her singing Mack the Knife and forgetting the words.
Edmund de Waal
Desert Island Discs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01p067p
Sunday 25th November 2012
'This is making it up as you go along. This matters to me because this is what the experience of making things is like. That’s improvisation. That’s when when you think you’ve got it made before you start. And then … it all goes … it doesn’t go wrong - it goes different'.
Frank Cotterell-Boyce the English playwright and author was featured on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs a few weeks ago. He remarked that as a boy he was held back in the final year at Primary School because he was too young. Far from being a negative experience he said that it empowered him - he had done it all before, of course he knew the topics.
I feel as if I should sign up for 'Innovations in E-learning' H807 next year, not just to get my head around the topic more fully (its a gargantuan topic on which you could never know enough) but because by then there will of course be new innovations to talk about.
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