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Music for writing: Playlist exploring the role of music in academic writing

Music for writing

James Lamb, a friend and colleague from our years on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and subsequently from shared projects like Edinspace and Elektronisches Lernen Muzik, has posted recently with an excellent playlist of tracks nominated by students. Introducing Volume 2 of Music for Writing, the product of this exercise that […]

My playlist for post e/mlearning projects: euphoria leading to exhaustion

I am working with a few colleagues from the University of Edinburgh on a project (elernenmuzik) exploring the role of music and sound in elearning. In fact, a recent conversation I had with them at the AoIR Conference in Manchester provided a good chance for us to meet and reminisce into the wee hours of […]

Faithless’ “Mass Destruction”: Mobility as a musical organizing principle

I reserve the right to post on non-mobile-learning topics from time to time, harkening bark to the origin of this blog many many years ago. From time to time, sometimes I just want to post some music. This is Faithless’ “Mass Destruction”, a track that is a bit dated already (while still topical, mentions of […]

Music 3.6.2010: Beirut

I don’t have a lot by way of anecdotal evidence for this particular round of music, but today’s choice is Beirut. Everyone out there might be thinking this post would have been significant in 2005, but I like to let things linger with my music for at least 3 years, almost like a nice Port. Beirut is […]

The Band: Canada, America, Blogging, and Bliss

I don’t claim to know anything about music. I mean I can’t read music, write music, even play music. Although I do a mean air guitar. It took a good session and a good talking to by a good friend to realize that I was even a left-handed guitar player (as a 34 year old […]

Shout Out Louds: Song of the Day for 8.28.2009

Rock on my Swedish friends. The band is Shout Out Louds. The song is Very Loud. I highly recommend it at work to plow through some repetitive task. Brilliant, foot-tapping jibber jabber. Head off to iTunes and get it now. Download it here. Shout Out Louds-Very Loud