About this Blog

An Otoscope is an instrument used to look inside the head, specifically to examine the inner ear. I thought this would be a good name for a blog which tries to do just that: to give you a glimpse of what's going on inside my head as I write my doctoral thesis.

Since my research centres on the role of communities of practice in the use of artefacts in virtual learning environments, most blogs published here will be sketches exploring CoPs, material culture, digitisation, e-learning or other flights of fancy.

Although I'm jointly appointed by the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the views (and mistakes) in this blog are entirely my own.
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