Monthly Archives: April 2014

Drawing, Drones, Deliveries and Decisions

Hello all, it’s Kate Bentham here looking after Weekly Blog Club for week 16, I hope you’re all well and looking forward to finding out about the amazing 15 blogs we’ve had submitted this week. Big thanks to all our

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Drones – opportunity or threat?

I always enjoy reading blogs from Mark Braggins as he tends to introduce me to something new in the technology world, and I learn loads for reading them. This blog is no different as Mark discusses the possible opportunities and

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SKY DIVING

A great blog from Shelagh Creegan who reflects on her guest host of the @WeNurses chat site. Shelgah introduces me to the term Sky Divers, which refers to other social media enthusiasts, and also to SoMe leadership, communication, learning and outcome based

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South West Trains and Engineering work.

Football supporter Peter Olding has been inconvenienced when travelling to home games because of months of Network Rail engineering works, causing him to catch the replacement bus service to see his beloved AFC Bournemouth play. South West Trains posted a tweet recently

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Pizzas are delivered………

On the Dumfries and Galloway Health blog this week we hear from Consultant Midwife Karen King. Karen blogs about promoting women to have a normal birth and the crucial role midwives have in supporting this. The emphasis in Karen’s blogs

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Hatton Gallery drawing session 8

Janet Davis blogs about session 8 of Hatton Gallery drawing group and the work she did on collage. Janet explains that the inspiration for this session came from Eduardo Paolozzi’s Bunk! exhibition and pop art. Janet also looks at the

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Hatton Gallery drawing session 7

The theme for session 7 of the Hatton Gallery Drawing group was Marilyn Monroe, and Janet Davis shares with us the image she created from the exhibition of photographs. Janet draws a reflection of an image of this iconic woman.

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Angel Community Garden, Tonbridge

This week Karen Hart writes about the Angel Community Garden which is a project initiated by the local community to transform the featureless edge of a shopping centre car park. Karen talks to one of the many volunteers to celebrate the

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Paris or Rome?

Carolyne Mitchell continues her thoughts on decision making in this next installment from her blog. Carolyne discusses how the choices we make are not only linked to our emotions from choices we’ve made in the past but how we are often

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Welcome to Easy Street

In this blog Carolyne Mitchell shares with us some of the teaching of Dan Arielys and his course Beginners Guide to Irrationality. The blogs looks at decision making, and how people rely on contextual information to make judgements. Carolyne discusses

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