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Jack Lowe

@jackalowe.bsky.social
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A geographer who makes games and interactive stories. Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: pinthetale.co.uk jackalowe.co.uk

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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m at #thebigthing – an annual gathering of the UK’s immersive arts community – in Llandudno, presenting on a significant nationwide project I've worked on since February with my UWE Bristol colleagues Verity McIntosh, Amy Densley and Simon Moreton. (Pics from my walk on The Great Orme yesterday!)
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In August, I was part of the @pmstudiouk.bsky.social team running Make Shift Camp. This was a 5-day game-making camp for early-stage creatives in Bristol who are interested in exploring play with technology and developing creative ideas in collaboration with others.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One week today, Wednesday 15th July, writer and poet Bridget Hart and I will be running a place writing workshop at The Studio in Bath, where we’ll be using what3words and a range of interactive and playful methods to inspire us. Sign up here: thestudioinbath.co.uk/events/place...
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Place Writing with Pin the Tale - The Studio
Pin the Tale is a creative writing workshop that brings storytelling and place together through digital mapping. Bath is teeming…
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚨 Our Annual Symposium is tomorrow! Join us online from 9:45am for a day exploring the digital geographies of fragility, ending with Professor Margath Walker's keynote, The Fragility of AI. Programme & last-minute registration: digitalgeographiesrg.org/9-july-2026-... #DGRGAnnualSymposium2026
The image shows a bio of Professor Margath Walker. The background is pink with a white border. The title reads DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES RESEARCH GROUP ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2026. On the left is a picture of the Professor with curly hair, black glasses and a beige jumper, smiling at the camera. On the right is a QR code to visit the DGRG website. Her bio reads: Margath Walker is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geographic and Environmental Sciences and School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on technology, critical social theory and political geography. Her book, Spatializing Marcuse: Critical Theory for Contemporary Times (Bristol University Press) is the first to develop a geographic perspective in relation to the social philosopher, Herbert Marcuse. She has published widely on the geographies of artificial intelligence, borders and belonging and how social theory can explain current political dynamics. She is currently co-editor of the RGS-IBG Book Series. This is followed by a short call to action: "Register and join us online on 9th July 2026 from 9.45am UK time"
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sharing this again for those in London on Wednesday. what3words is a superb tool for getting your creative writing juices flowing. Join us in this free workshop where we'll have a go at place-based writing using 3-word addresses! #creativewriting #place #psychogeography #what3words #storytelling
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🏆 The DGRG is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in any area of digital geography. The winner will receive £100 and have the opportunity to showcase their work through DGRG channels. Submit your nominations by 22 July 2026. Full submission information below 🔗
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Digital Geographies Research Group | Undergraduate dissertation prize
Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in digital geography showing original research, critical analysis, and/or innovative methodology.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
London people interested in place-based creative writing and storytelling: this free Pin the Tale workshop is coming up on 3rd June as part of the Festival of Storytelling run by @kings-dfi.bsky.social!
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Buckle up, buttercup! I'm going to do a thread with all the cool stuff going on in our King's Digital Futures Institute free Festival of Storytelling, taking place in central London on 2-4 July and open to EVERYONE. @kings-dfi.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This happened last week! Street2Boardroom, a board game I designed and wrote, has had its first commercial print run. I received my own copy and found it incredibly satisfying to be able to physically hold something I’ve made, as most of my creative work is digital!
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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Nominations are now open for this year's Society and Research Groups undergraduate dissertation prizes 🏆 Know students who’ve produced outstanding work across different areas of the discipline? Departments can submit nominations by 22 July. Find out more 👇 ow.ly/xM3o50YJYmW
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Undergraduate dissertation prizes | RGS
Annual undergraduate dissertation prizes, including the Alfred Steers Prize, awarded by the Society and its Research and Working Groups.
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The Chinese Room @thechineseroom.co.uk · 30/04/2026
For many of our colleagues across the industry "Kaleidoscope" is already a classic - an excellent book with 100 essays by 100 Narrative experts each offering a distinct perspective on the craft of storytelling in games. www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/ 1/4
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This Thursday 23rd April 6.30 – 8pm, have a go at creative writing with what3words! I’m running an ONLINE workshop with The Writers’ Block, where we’ll be using the idea of 3-word locations to open the door to memories, imagination and new ways of seeing places. www.tickettailor.com/events/thewr...
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Buy tickets – Pin the Tale - Online Workshop – Zoom
Pin the Tale - Online Workshop – Zoom, Thu 23 Apr 2026 - Join us for a relaxed and inspiring evening of creative writing, using the idea of three-word locations to spark stories about the places that ...
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Pin the Tale, my what3words storytelling game, has won the 'Best Use of Digital Humanities for Fun' award in the annual Digital Humanities Awards!! I'm thrilled, honoured and a little in awe.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨My what3words storytelling game Pin the Tale has been nominated here for an award! 🚨It's purely determined by public vote, so would be hugely grateful if you could vote for Pin the Tale in the last category of this form (do check out + vote in the other categories too if you can!)
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I had such a brilliant time chatting to @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social about world-building from material details, building plausible deniability into your settings, and how players love to be historians so you may as well embrace it with your narrative design. Give it a listen!
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How can what3words be used as a tool for creative writing and storytelling? In this article for The Writing Platform, I discuss the trends I have noticed in how people write stories with what3words on Pin the Tale: thewritingplatform.com/2026/03/what...
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What3words as a storytelling technology in Pin the Tale
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States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
👋 Now say hi to Jack Lowe (he/him), our Prize Co-ordinator, helping to recognise outstanding research in digital geographies. @jackalowe.bsky.social recommends you check out Pin The Tale (pinthetale.co.uk) and this free mystery game (interment.itch.io/play) to wave Monday goodbye! #DGRGCommittee
The image is a profile of the Prize Co-ordinator Dr Jack Lowe. On the left is an image of Jack smiling, wearing a hoodie in front of a multi-coloured wall. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...JACK LOWE Knowledge Exchange Manager, UWE Bristol". The beige text box below reads, "Jack is the creator of Pin the Tale: an online, map-based game about discovering and sharing stories connected to places in the UK: pinthetale.co.uk. Something fun to share with the community:  If you’ve ever wandered through an old graveyard, looked at the barely readable headstones and imagined the lives of those buried there, you might enjoy this little free mystery game: https://interment.itch.io/play". A final black box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: Place, digital games, creative methods, locative and mobile media, psychogeography". The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New Pin the Tale newsletter out today, with details of an event this weekend about mapping unofficial stories of Bristol, and sharing some of the wonderful poetry written during our recent workshops hosted by Watershed: mailchi.mp/9adcda28d944...
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Mapping unofficial stories
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Pin the Tale will be part of this wonderful event in Sparks on 15th Nov about mapping meaningful landmarks and unofficial place names in central Bristol. Will be old maps galore and plenty of fun, interesting and creative things to do. Drop in any time 11am-5pm and bring fellow Bristolians with you!
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Last Thursday, Bridget Hart and I ran an online version of our Pin the Tale poetry workshop, hosted by @wshed.bsky.social. Deeply inspiring + moving to hear the site-specific poetry our participants wrote in a short space of time. Many of these poems have now been uploaded to the Pin the Tale map.
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2 @geogdurham.bsky.social
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Watershed @wshed.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Are you a Bristol-based poet? If so, we’re inviting you to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place. Join us for FREE online Thu 16 Oct 18:30. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13457/p…
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Pin the Tale: Poetry Workshops
We’re inviting Bristol’s poets to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place, created by Pervasive Media Studio resident Jack Lowe.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Was an absolute joy hosting a Pin the Tale poetry workshop at @pmstudiouk.bsky.social last Thursday with Bridget Hart. Participants shared poems about places all across Bristol, written using what3words addresses, and we even wrote a collective poem about Bristol’s iconic Turbo Island!
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Verity McIntosh @veritymcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Delighted to share the first research report from @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social It's a deep dive into the immersive arts exhibition and distribution ecosystem, bringing together interviews and recommendations from an incredible group of experts. immersivearts.uk/news/first-r...
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First Report: Early days of the immersive exhibition network - Immersive Arts
Over the past 10–15 years, the appetite for immersive work both from artists and audiences has grown faster than the networks supporting it. This report brings together insights and recommendations fr...
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
After a couple of weeks away on leave, got a warm fuzzy feeling from writing our latest Pin the Tale newsletter. It shares news of our latest software update, successful and upcoming workshops, and our recent Container Magazine piece. mailchi.mp/78b0b7ed3c28...
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Our first software update!
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you? Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Small update: Pin the Tale no longer needs GPS to be active to load the map! If you were ever met with an infinite loading screen, it’s because location was being blocked on your device. This won’t happen anymore! (1/2)
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I wrote a design diary about the intersections of macro & micro history and how they can be used for worldbuilding and writing. It’s about our work on Amberspire, but I think it’ll be of interest to both game devs, writers, and historians interested in creative histories more generally 🌒
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Our latest Pin the Tale newsletter was sent out earlier this week, telling of some exciting developments in the land of what3words storytelling: mailchi.mp/959fcc48aadd... Expecting to send out another issue pretty soon; there's lots happening!
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Pin the Tale is a featured what3words product!
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Just published! I wrote an article for Container Magazine on my what3words storytelling game Pin the Tale: what it is, how people have used it and what it means for how people engage with places: containermagazine.co.uk/pin-the-tale...
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Pin the Tale: Engaging With Place Through Site-Specific Storytelling
Dr. Jack Lowe presents insights from creating Pin the Tale, an interactive map for people to tell and locate stories about places in the UK.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The immersive artists I informally call "the Children of Punchdrunk" have been experimenting with overt game mechanics in their work for a long time, so it's fascinating to see Punchdrunk finally debut this oft-teased video game/theatre hybrid!
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Punchdrunk to premiere Lander 23, a video game/immersive theatre hybrid show
The bold new show runs at their Woolwich home
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Really excited to be part of this workshop on Place-Based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World at RGS-IBG this year. A fantastic line-up; should be of interest to all who engage with cultural and digital geographies.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Proud moment for Pin the Tale: what3words have listed us on the Products page of their website! Thank you to the what3words team for their enthusiasm and support for what we’ve made. #geography #geosky #map #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is me with the amazing Bridget Hart. We’re running TWO poetry workshops with my story-mapping platform Pin the Tale in October, one in Bristol (2nd) and one online (16th). Join us to explore writing poetry inspired by place and by what3words! www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1345...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"My father saw his migration as necessary; he has only ever seen mine as narcissism" Kasim Ali on family, place and migration observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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‘What did we do to make you want to leave?’ | The Observer
Writer Kasim Ali is one of the few members of the community he grew up with in Birmingham’s Alum Rock to have left – and his family can’t understand why....
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Martin Smith @mrtnsmth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I’m leaving poetry zines in random places to be found by strangers. They each contain instructions to the finder to take the zine with them and leave it somewhere else. In the linked post I start to map out where the zines have been so far.
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Zine experiment - Week 4
Mapping where the zines have been.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I shared two publications discussing research methods for understanding app use on smartphones in a blogpost - both part of the TRAVIS research project led by the estimable @kattiid.bsky.social‬.
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Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews – new paper alert!
Really happy to have been a small part of this new paper in Qualitative Inquiry, called 'Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews.' It's available open access here: and this is the abstract: The article examines what happened during 50 semi-structured interviews that were designed to focus on the visual content of interviewees’ social media feeds. During these encounters, interviewees were invited to talk about content that appeared on their social media apps while showing their phone screens to the interviewer.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Have now run two creative writing workshops with Pin the Tale in Bristol and delighted to say that they were a success! We’re now planning to run more over the next few months. To hear about these when they’re announced, sign up to the mailing list here: mailchi.mp/ab35b137905d...
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This evening in Stokes Croft! Come along to Cafe Kino and have a go at doing some creative writing using what3words addresses. All welcome, no creative writing experience necessary: hdfst.uk/e132698
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Was a real joy to meet and re-connect with so many kindred spirits at #MIX2025 in Bath yesterday, themed around 'Writing with Technologies'. A particular pleasure to present about Pin the Tale in the Navigating Place through Digital Narratives session. Huge thanks to the organisers for a lovely day.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New Pin the Tale creative writing workshop happening ONE WEEK TODAY, Thursday 3rd July, 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Café Kino in Bristol. Explore Stokes Croft with us on a summer evening and get inspired to write stories! #Bristol #creativewriting #writingcommunity #writing #prompt
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Writing About Place: Creative Writing Workshop with Pin The Tale at Cafe Kino
Join narrative designer Jack Lowe and writer Elinor Lower for a relaxed workshop exploring writing about / from our surroundings. This guided workshop will feature warm-up exercises, solo writing tim...
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Final call for our Pin the Tale creative writing workshop this Sunday 11am @ Arnolfini Café! Open to all, no experience necessary. Your chance to have a go at doing creative writing inspired by what3words and places on Bristol’s harbourside. Tickets here: hdfst.uk/e131877
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Writing From Place: A Creative Writing Workshop with Pin the Tale at Arnolfini Cafe
Join narrative designer Jack Lowe and writer Elinor Lower for a relaxed Sunday workshop exploring writing about / from our surroundings. This guided workshop will feature warm-up exercises, solo writ...
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
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Martin Smith @mrtnsmth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A new thing. I like the idea of a poem interrupting someone’s day. I’ve only recently, in the last few years, been actively and deliberately reading poetry. I was made to teach it one year, against my loud objections, and I fell into a rabbit hole I’ve never been able to get out from #poetry
A homemade zine titled Take This With You & Leave It Somewhere Else.The inside cover of a zine with instructions to take the zine with you, leave it somewhere else and tag the author on social media.2 homemade zines titled Take This With You & Leave It Somewhere Else.
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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New edition of the Pin the Tale newsletter is now out! Sharing news of upcoming creative writing workshops in Bristol and some wonderful examples of stories written by our players. You can join the Pin the Tale mailing list here: mailchi.mp/ab35b137905d...
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Creative writing with Pin the Tale
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One more day to go!! We're so excited our free online symposium Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital is happening TOMORROW! Don't miss out, register now: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #DGRGSymposium2025
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