Rebecca Ferguson

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YouTube video by MANGLEDVIDEO News at Ten ITV with Harry Hill (2003) Loch Ness Monster

There's a tiny bit here www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgtc...

Photographs IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs covering the cause, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to present day.

The Imperial War Museum has the complete B and BU Series of British official photographs - all 23,000 of them www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Hey folks - posting for a colleague, they're looking for Kenyan voice actors of any gender with access to a good remote recording setup. It's a paid role - if you're interested, please comment and I'll pass on your info

(if you don't fit the brief, signal boosting is appreciated, thank you!)

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Looking forward to discussing this on #Pedagodzilla

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

This is all interesting - scroll forward to 17 minutes if you're only interested in the bird reproducing the PNG data

When you say 'the country', it had also witnessed the Act of Union of 1707, which had fused England and Scotland together as Great Britain

bsky.app/profile/abro...

Just threw out the last of my Zip disks. And my Amstrad disks. Now I'm deliberating about the last of my cassettes

23 July 1915 Left London 23rd 5am At Lpool 10am [This entry was added to 22 July rather than forming a complete entry.] Commentary At 8am on 22 July, George was in a trench. A little more than 24 hours later he…

Left London 23rd 5am
At Lpool 10am

George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...

It’s cherry plum season in Milton Keynes

Your morning cartoon:

US nuclear weapons ‘on UK soil’ for first time in 17 years Flight from New Mexico to RAF Lakenheath believed to have dropped off B61 nuclear bombs that can be carried by Britain’s new F-35A fighter jets

US has stationed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in nearly 20 years for potential deployment on a new squadron of British jets.
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Cartoon, ten penguins stand next to each other in two rows of five. Each has their own prop and/or costume relating to their title. The first row of penguins (from left to right) are labelled "The pragmatist, The Philospher, The Unknown, The Explorer and The Maverick." The second row "The Famous Scientist, The Absent Minded Professor, The Wizard, The Maestro and The Master."

Make your research come alive with Visual Thinkery - this time using the playful mask of a cartoon character to explore a very serious topic: different types of PhD supervisors!
(created for GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision) with @rfarrow.bsky.social.

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All these normally reliable sources failing to make the obvious video. I feel a conspiracy theory coming on

Lol

And if he goes with Middle English, which part of the country's Middle English will he go with?

Isn't everyone's search history like that - a real-time visualisation of thought processes? (Though I'd recommend reducing the amount of info you supply Google with by switching search history off.)

YouTube video by Eileen Kennedy Learning Types and Learning Technologies

Another try - Diana Laurillard www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_C5...

YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFaZ...

YouTube video by Tony Hirst changing expectations

Or one of Tony's ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTl...

Martin Weller

SOmething by Martin Weller, maybe? www.youtube.com/edtechie

17 July 1915 Showery find robin’s nest with three young ones in O5 Fatigue at night for rations to Brasserie take the road instead of using comm. trench Mine up in R trenches Commentary Robin chicks. Image from…

Showery find
robin’s nest with three
young ones in O5
Fatigue at night for rations
to Brasserie take the road
instead of using comm. trench
Mine up in R trenches

More about the #WW1 #WesternFront in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/1...

In fact, if the country as a whole were like Orkney Library, the world would be a better place.

Courtyard in front of Orkney library. Paving stones on the ground, three stone balls in view and also a bench in the shape of an open book with a shoal of mosaic fish swimming across its back and seat

No trip to Orkney is complete without a visit to @orkneylibrary.bsky.social My general feeling is that all libraries should be like this one

Interior of a bookshop with fragments of poems hung on boards. The ones visible here are 'to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep'

Reminder of @malevolent.ca in the bookshop in Alnwick

Sycamore Gap: Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers sentenced for felling famous tree - live updates The chopping down of the tree in September 2023 led to a huge outpouring of anger and emotion.

36,000 people currently watching the live blog of the Sycamore Gap verdict www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...