Mc² = E Learning Reflections

If you read my previous blog, Music has really influenced my thinking of late.  It's always been a big part of who I am, but more recently I've found myself thinking a lot more about words, lyrics and meaning.  Perhaps this is just a reflection of the fact that I'm getting older and the thumping dance tracks don't quite appeal to me as much as they once did.  But, in a reluctance to admit to the advancement of time, I prefer to think it's more a reflection of my own learning journey as I think about my current and past experiences. ( " A Treasury of Gregorian Chants "  by  StudioMONDO  is marked with  CC PDM 1.0 .) But this week I've been thinking a lot about by school music classes.  I loved learning about the history of music and how musical styles progressed through the centuries.  One of my favourite texts on the subject was a book entitled Stylistic Harmony  by Anna Butterworth (1994), a lecturer that I had the privilege to study wi...

  It's not a secret that I love horror movies.  Vampires, aliens and killer sharks are all just a few references from the baddies that proliferated my formative years as a film viewer and critic.  The epic battles between Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are among the Hammer Horror classics I still enjoy.  However, thanks to a recent keynote given by @mweller, I got to thinking about one of the horror classics in a whole new light.   ( "Top Ten Horror Movies!"   by  AntMan3001  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 ) In my own mind I had always thought of the zombie as a malignant, slow moving and mindless creature driven by a relentless need to consume.  Invariably plot lines show zombies emerging as a result of some environmental catastrophe in which some toxic agent is released (an irony not lost on me in the current climate).  Zombies multiply their numbers, and thereby gain strength in numbers, by biting their victim.  If ...