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A list of previously published articles; ‘status updates‘ excluded.

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2025

Wednesday, 3 September 2025 : “Open to Work”
Sunday, 20 July 2025 : When life throws you a ‘bouncer’
Sunday, 6 April 2025 : First Set Mindset
Sunday, 2 March 2025 : This account doesn’t exist

2023

Monday, 2 January 2023 : What I Read in 2022

2022

Saturday, 3 December 2022 : Twitter –> Markdown FTW!
Sunday, 20 November 2022 : Designed in Sweden…
Sunday, 20 March 2022 : Bearing Witness to War
Monday, 3 January 2022 : Goals (2022)
Sunday, 2 January 2022 : Less, More & None (2021) – Review

2021

Thursday, 30 December 2021 : What I Read This Year
Saturday, 15 May 2021 : I ran all night and day…
Wednesday, 17 February 2021 : More on blogging…
Tuesday, 16 February 2021 : On blogging…
Sunday, 14 February 2021 : On Love…
Thursday, 4 February 2021 : Time Travel
Thursday, 21 January 2021 : On the value of failure…
Friday, 15 January 2021 : The Whole of the Moon
Sunday, 3 January 2021 : Morning Reading
Saturday, 2 January 2021 : Less, More & None (2021)

2020

Thursday, 31 December 2020 : Less, More and None (2020) – Review
Monday, 28 December 2020 : What I Read This Year
Thursday, 24 December 2020 : In the Mood for Love
Tuesday, 1 September 2020 : Perhaps there is another way
Saturday, 29 August 2020 : Do Not Track
Thursday, 13 August 2020 : The Antithesis of Mercy
Friday, 29 May 2020 : She Bangs the Drums!
Wednesday, 27 May 2020 : Scratching an itch…
Wednesday, 13 May 2020 : Quote
Tuesday, 12 May 2020 : People Are Pretty Decent
Thursday, 7 May 2020 : The Ancient Mariner Big Read
Monday, 4 May 2020 : May The 4th Be With You
Wednesday, 29 April 2020 : Purpos/ed Redux
Monday, 20 April 2020 : Drafts and Marked sitting in a tree…
Friday, 10 April 2020 : Support Local – Updated!
Sunday, 29 March 2020 : The Leaky Boat
Saturday, 28 March 2020 : The day after tomorrow…
Thursday, 26 March 2020 : It’s game on in the Michie household…
Monday, 23 March 2020 : We must open our eyes and see!
Sunday, 22 March 2020 : Playlists and Podcasts
Thursday, 19 March 2020 : Support Local
Wednesday, 18 March 2020 : Gen X and Proud!
Sunday, 15 March 2020 : In these dark and sombre times…
Sunday, 5 January 2020 : I’m standing “on the side of the egg”!
Friday, 3 January 2020 : Less, More and None (2020)
Wednesday, 1 January 2020 : Less, More and None (2019) – Review

2019

Monday, 5 August 2019 : Adieu
Sunday, 21 July 2019 : Banksy By The Seaside
Wednesday, 29 May 2019 : Fifteen
Sunday, 5 May 2019 : The Next Step…
Tuesday, 1 January 2019 : Less, More and None (2019)

2018

Saturday, 29 December 2018 : Less, More and None (2018)
Friday, 28 December 2018 : Reading to Run; Running to Read
Sunday, 9 December 2018 : Reclaiming My Domain (since August 2016)
Sunday, 14 October 2018 : Running Music
Thursday, 30 August 2018 : How I Lost Weight and Got Fit
Wednesday, 22 August 2018 : Hello World! Again.

2016

Saturday, 24 September 2016 : Make No Assumptions
Saturday, 14 May 2016 : Ask For Help
Saturday, 20 February 2016 : A Singular Gift

2015

Saturday, 10 October 2015 : Meaningful work? Learn to say no.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015 : Ai Weiwei
Sunday, 13 September 2015 : The Secret of Success

2014

Sunday, 28 September 2014 : Realize!
Thursday, 7 August 2014 : Connected Courses (#ccourses)
Sunday, 6 July 2014 : TSA – KS3 @ CCC (Slides)
Tuesday, 25 February 2014 : Open – Connected – Distributed: Learning [#TLAB14]

2013

Sunday, 24 November 2013 : The Great Discontent
Saturday, 6 July 2013 : Face-To-Face
Tuesday, 7 May 2013 : First Steps into Learning & Teaching in Higher Education [#fslt13]
Thursday, 11 April 2013 : On Chasing the Right “Zero”
Friday, 5 April 2013 : There’s an app for that… [iOS Edition]
Thursday, 4 April 2013 : There’s an app for that… [OSX Edition]
Thursday, 28 March 2013 : Every Day!
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 : #crit101 and Open Badges [UCL]
Saturday, 16 March 2013 : ‘Leashes not required’ – [#TLAB13]
Sunday, 10 February 2013 : Becoming an active, critical reader…
Monday, 21 January 2013 : Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference [#TLAB13]
Wednesday, 16 January 2013 : “Something I Learned Today”

2012

Friday, 28 December 2012 : Blog Feed Update
Monday, 3 September 2012 : Responsive Part Two (Fine-Tuning)
Saturday, 18 August 2012 : MOOC MOOC – Day Four
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 : MOOC MOOC – Day Three (Learning is Messy)
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 : MOOC MOOC – Day Two
Monday, 13 August 2012 : MOOC MOOC – Day One
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 : Responsive
Saturday, 7 July 2012 : Merlin Mann …on Workflow
Thursday, 5 July 2012 : Mitchel Resnick: Learning from Scratch
Wednesday, 4 July 2012 : TeachMeet Tees 12: ‘Leashes not required’ (V2)
Thursday, 28 June 2012 : TeachMeet Oxford: ‘Leashes not required’
Sunday, 6 May 2012 : Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong
Friday, 4 May 2012 : [TeachMeet Clevedon] AfL & Google Docs
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 : Independence & Community (The Purpose of Education)
Sunday, 29 April 2012 : Why the rush?
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 : ‘Leashes Not Required’ – A Google+ Hangout
Thursday, 12 April 2012 : [#ukedchat] Starting with a blank piece of paper: Design the school of your dreams.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 : iPhone Apps (2)
Monday, 9 April 2012 : Quote
Thursday, 5 April 2012 : iPhone Apps
Wednesday, 4 April 2012 : Cultivating a brand (caring for your digital self)
Thursday, 29 March 2012 : Noise Filter (@HibariApp)
Saturday, 17 March 2012 : Why @HibariApp has fast become my Twitter app of choice
Sunday, 11 March 2012 : Quote
Sunday, 11 March 2012 : The tranquility of the creative act…
Friday, 9 March 2012 : Clarifying where I stand on ‘Kony 2012’
Thursday, 1 March 2012 : Reflective Professional Development: A Literature Review
Sunday, 26 February 2012 : Sir Ken Robinson: Leading a Learning Revolution
Saturday, 25 February 2012 : Closure
Thursday, 23 February 2012 : [#ukedchat] Are schools (as physical spaces) necessary to facilitate learning in the 21st century?
Friday, 17 February 2012 : Looking Forward to Junior Year
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 : …on Learning Objectives
Sunday, 12 February 2012 : Image for @KristianStill re: Think Link
Saturday, 11 February 2012 : Study Group Teachers’ Conference
Wednesday, 8 February 2012 : TeachMeet Roehampton
Sunday, 5 February 2012 : Learning Futures: A move towards “educated hope”
Wednesday, 1 February 2012 : Reflective Professional Development: Opening Statement [#mainedu]
Sunday, 29 January 2012 : AFL & Google Docs [Presentation]
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 : Absence, Priorities, Focus and Reflection
Tuesday, 3 January 2012 : Check-in…

2011

Thursday, 1 December 2011 : 21st Century Literacy: Two Words
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 : Housekeeping: The Value of Less
Thursday, 3 November 2011 : #mainedu: An update
Monday, 17 October 2011 : What is Independent Learning?
Friday, 14 October 2011 : What does an independent learner look like?
Thursday, 13 October 2011 : [#ukedchat] Can we really help our students to become independent learners or are there too many constraints?
Saturday, 8 October 2011 : An edited life…
Thursday, 6 October 2011 : Inspired
Wednesday, 5 October 2011 : Taking a month off from blogging…
Monday, 26 September 2011 : Note to Mark Zuckerberg
Friday, 9 September 2011 : Mock Up
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 : Podcasts
Friday, 26 August 2011 : Perfect ‘Simple’ Note Making – Revamped
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 : There is no excuse
Saturday, 20 August 2011 : Before you can learn to say ‘no’, you have to decide what to say ‘yes’ to
Thursday, 18 August 2011 : Mac #Productivity Tip
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 : Yes or No?
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 : Reading Productivity
Sunday, 14 August 2011 : Read this…
Friday, 12 August 2011 : Listen
Tuesday, 9 August 2011 : Enough
Saturday, 6 August 2011 : Full Screen FTW!
Saturday, 6 August 2011 : Communicative Relationships: The Purpose of Assessment
Tuesday, 2 August 2011 : Thinking Space
Sunday, 31 July 2011 : Why I Became an Early Riser
Saturday, 30 July 2011 : iPad + Garageband FTW!
Friday, 29 July 2011 : In the wild and extended!
Thursday, 21 July 2011 : Google Docs in the Classroom – A Discussion
Wednesday, 6 July 2011 : Account Management
Tuesday, 5 July 2011 : Google+: A Space In-Between
Sunday, 26 June 2011 : Why this Apple fanboy loves his Android phone
Friday, 24 June 2011 : Twitter for Mac: Separate Windows, Separate Streams
Thursday, 23 June 2011 : Invite Them Back!
Thursday, 23 June 2011 : Illiteracy: Ignoring the root of the problem
Monday, 13 June 2011 : #purposedfutured
Sunday, 22 May 2011 : #mainedu: One module down, two to go…
Monday, 9 May 2011 : Audit
Thursday, 21 April 2011 : Is it time for education to embrace entropy?
Sunday, 17 April 2011 : Learning Taxonomies: Why ‘creating’ is a cognitive skill
Saturday, 16 April 2011 : Beware Walled Gardens – Part 2
Friday, 15 April 2011 : Beware Walled Gardens – Part 1
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 : Erm… did I mention that I love Notational Velocity?
Friday, 1 April 2011 : Desk!
Sunday, 20 March 2011 : Little and often
Tuesday, 8 March 2011 : Busting a hole in the wall (the purpose of education)
Saturday, 5 March 2011 : #writewell – A Gifted and Talented Writing Project
Monday, 28 February 2011 : In the Vital Hotseat
Saturday, 26 February 2011 : Redesigning jamesmichie.com(blog) – CSS FTW!
Monday, 21 February 2011 : Ceci n’est pas une pipe and the death of Media Studies
Thursday, 17 February 2011 : 10 things I’ve learned in a year of blogging
Sunday, 13 February 2011 : More on the challenges facing education…
Friday, 11 February 2011 : Education has purpose but faces huge challenges!
Tuesday, 8 February 2011 : Like me, just don’t poke me!
Sunday, 6 February 2011 : Writing: From idea to published post
Thursday, 3 February 2011 : Weapon of choice
Monday, 31 January 2011 : #edjournal: available to download – NOW!
Sunday, 23 January 2011 : Gove + Zuckerberg = Elitist Victorian Education 101
Friday, 21 January 2011 : Email productivity in five.sentenc.es
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 : Affecting Change
Sunday, 9 January 2011 : 3 things I do every weekend that make me a better teacher
Sunday, 9 January 2011 : 3 things I do every (school) day that make me a better teacher
Saturday, 8 January 2011 : Why I believe an 11″ MacBook Air is the ideal laptop for me
Friday, 7 January 2011 : Sharing What You Do Online – FTW!
Thursday, 6 January 2011 : Evernote FTW!

2010

Friday, 31 December 2010 : Google Docs In The Classroom – Part 4: What’s Next?
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 : #edjournal: available to read online – NOW!
Sunday, 12 December 2010 : Lifestream
Wednesday, 1 December 2010 : #24daysofadvent
Sunday, 21 November 2010 : 4D Books, Cover Work and a Retweet – QR Codes in Education
Monday, 15 November 2010 : School-based Enquiry: Google docs & AfL
Sunday, 14 November 2010 : MA in Education
Sunday, 7 November 2010 : #edjournal – Sneak Peek!
Sunday, 31 October 2010 : QR Codes in Education: A Burgeoning Narrative
Monday, 25 October 2010 : Share with Delivr
Friday, 15 October 2010 : Instapaper “Read Later” Button For Your Blog!
Tuesday, 12 October 2010 : Notational Velocity ‘Forked’!
Monday, 11 October 2010 : Stephen Fry on Language
Saturday, 2 October 2010 : QR-Codes In Education – Why?
Friday, 24 September 2010 : Google Docs In The Classroom – Part 3: Assessment
Monday, 20 September 2010 : Notational Velocity – Freedom To Write!
Wednesday, 15 September 2010 : Animating With Post-It Notes & Flip Cameras
Tuesday, 14 September 2010 : Why what and not where?
Tuesday, 14 September 2010 : Where? or What?
Sunday, 12 September 2010 : Perfect ‘Simple’ Note Making
Thursday, 9 September 2010 : #edjournal has a home!
Wednesday, 8 September 2010 : Assessment for Learning
Wednesday, 1 September 2010 : #edjournal (an update!)
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 : …these thoughts are my own!
Thursday, 5 August 2010 : #edjournal: an open call for articles!
Tuesday, 3 August 2010 : #edjournal
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 : Google Docs In The Classroom – Part 2: Collaboration
Monday, 26 July 2010 : Google Docs In The Classroom – Part 1: Signing Up
Saturday, 24 July 2010 : Boo #5: A Busy Week On The ‘Internets’!
Thursday, 22 July 2010 : I Have Moved!
Thursday, 22 July 2010 : Moving!
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 : Should I Move My Blog?
Monday, 19 July 2010 : jamesmichie.com
Monday, 19 July 2010 : Please Feel Free To Use My Stuff!
Friday, 16 July 2010 : Boo #4: Blogging
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 : Design as Teaching
Sunday, 11 July 2010 : May You Be Present Here And Now
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 : Boo #3: #TMMoodle, #ETRU & #readforjoy
Saturday, 3 July 2010 : TeachMeet Moodle
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 : Boo #2: Shipping, Gifts & Email
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 : Education Eye – Mapping Innovations
Monday, 28 June 2010 : Boo #1: Why AudioBoo?
Saturday, 26 June 2010 : Shipping, Giving Gifts & Combating the Email Onslaught
Friday, 18 June 2010 : Welcome to ‘the zone of optimal challenge’
Thursday, 10 June 2010 : Lino It – Online Stickies
Monday, 7 June 2010 : Blog Aesthetics & Improved Functionality
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 : Connecting With Parents Online (Part Three)
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 : Connecting With Parents Online (Part Two)
Monday, 24 May 2010 : Flip Cameras & Post-it Notes
Sunday, 23 May 2010 : “Fin ur txt msgs 4 hmwk; due 14.05.”
Sunday, 2 May 2010 : Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog!
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 : #mootuk10 (Holes In Walls & Cyberspace)
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 : Creating Desktop Apps With Fluid
Monday, 5 April 2010 : #edread – Ideas & Values
Sunday, 4 April 2010 : I’ve Been Chromed!
Sunday, 28 March 2010 : #edread or “e-dread”?
Sunday, 21 March 2010 : #edread – An Update! (Spring Is In The Air)
Thursday, 18 March 2010 : Connecting With Parents Online
Sunday, 14 March 2010 : #edread – An Update! (1 Week & 3 Days Since The Discussion Began.)
Saturday, 13 March 2010 : What I Did With My Year 8s Yesterday…
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 : Help Them Take The First Bite!
Sunday, 7 March 2010 : #edread – An Update!
Thursday, 4 March 2010 : #edread – A Crowdsourced Twitter Discussion About Getting Kids To Read.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 : Assessment For Learning With Twitter
Saturday, 20 February 2010 : New Blog! New iPod! An Update!
Thursday, 18 February 2010 : WordPress or Blogger?
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 : A Very British Education.
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 : New iPod! New Blog!