I’ve been casting around for an image to head my blog and have been looking for something to do with Antarctica. I finally found one. It’s an image of Antarctica called “Antarctica Sailing Trip” (by 23am.com; licensed under CC BY 2.0) and I thought I’d say something about why I chose it. In my previous post, I mentioned that I chose a theme, Spaces, to work with across the different blocks of this course. So I’m going to be thinking about learning spaces, teaching spaces, and governance spaces across this course. I’m going to see whether I can tie my interests in questions about trust, trustworthiness, privacy and governance into all this too. We’ll see how it goes.

Why Antarctica? Well, we have a lot of networked spaces in education right now and I’ve started to wonder whether some non-networked spaces might be really important to have too. I guess I imagined Antarctica to be one of least networked places left on Earth so that’s why I went looking for an image of it that I liked. I’ll say more about Antarctica in a future post and maybe why I chose this image of Antarctica in particular. In my next post I want to say something about our trial data visualisation and what I learnt from it.

Last but not least, the image I’ve used for the heading of my blog is:

“Antarctica Sailing Trip” by 23am.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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