by Sayraphim on March 29, 2020

So the world is in upheaval. A global pandemic is shutting down entire countries, shops, schools, universities are all closed and, students, parents and teachers are all scrambling for online learning. In the first week in Australia, I was still teaching. Students came to class but were scared, uncertain about the future or the present, […]
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by Sayraphim on March 29, 2020

So within the last week, much of the US and UK (and Australia, but that doesn’t really factor into this blog post) has shut down. Amongst many other things, this means that very quickly, TV hosts were having to do their shows without audience and then, almost immediately after that, forced to do their shows […]
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by Sayraphim on March 29, 2020
by Sayraphim on February 24, 2020

Today’s momentous event was posting my edutube phd acceptance letter – WHOOOOOO!!!! I filmed it for posterity (and social media) using instagram, which the second after I finished filming decreed the video wasn’t long enough & thus it didn’t save. There’s no second takes posting a letter, so instead of a video, here’s me contemplating […]
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January 31, 2020

I was talking to Zoe Glatt, an academic doing her phd on youtubers at LSE, a while ago, and she pointed out that most academics studying youtube don’t actually have a youtube channel. This was a surprise to me, cause I think it’s really valuable to have hands-on experience with the thing I’m studying. And […]
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December 20, 2019

So the kinds of reality tv I like are the ones where people make things – Project Runway, Masterchef, Sewing Bee and the sequined gloriousness that is RuPaul’s Drag Race. But I also think that they shape the ideas and creativeness of those who watch them. Let’s chat about the Masterchef/RuPaul effect. So Masterchef, if […]
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