Given this is my blog I can write whatever I want to, including flip flopping madly between different points of view. Previously I wrote these posts: https://ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/going-out-of-my-head-thinking-about-headless/ https://ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/two-idiots-of-verona/ Today though I’m in love again with RSS and APIs can go take a jump. 2 things: … Continue reading This is my blog and I’ll be contrary if I want to
Like many, I’m a big fan of the SPLOT, and for a while I’ve wanted to spend a little time looking under the bonnet. Today turned out to be that day. https://twitter.com/ammienoot/status/1048958527279194114 When I’ve shown SPLOTs to colleagues at Edinburgh, they’ve liked the way that … Continue reading Getting inside SPLOTs
https://twitter.com/UoE_LTW/status/1042790396752003075 We’re a week out from launching a new blogging service – a project that has had a number of false starts and delays along the way – and I am so impressed with the work the team have done to get this there. There’s … Continue reading Academic Blogging; or what we did this summer…
https://twitter.com/sglassmeyer/status/926434426388656128 I saw this tweet a while back, and whilst it’s in the context of data collection in libraries, it speaks to something I hear in edtech conversations more generally and was reminded of again this weekend e.g. how we shouldn’t be collecting all this … Continue reading To collect or not to collect: that is often not the right question
The text below was kindly provided by Elizabeth Cumming and Jocelyn Cunliffe to support volunteer guides opening the Mortuary Chapel for Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2018. I’ve updated the text to include various links and images to help guides at least be a little familiar … Continue reading Royal Hospital for Sick Children: Mortuary Chapel History
On a recent trip to the University of Leeds for the EC-TEL conference, I spotted an interesting sign on a noticeboard. I looked up the Typeology website and read the following description: Who are we ? A team of members run Typology together as a … Continue reading Who knows where the audio track goes?
Rattling back up the tracks from Leeds after a super-fast visit to the EC Technology Enhanced Learning conference. Sadly I couldn’t stay for the main conference, but thanks to the efforts of Dr Adam Cooper, myself, Dr Maren Scheffel and Dr Liz Bennet had the … Continue reading EC-TEL 2018: Student Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards
I’ve told a few people about this and made at least on other person try it, so I’m going to blog it for posterity now. I scored a bunch of spicy peppers* on the cheap from the supermarket a few weeks back and was wondering … Continue reading Spicy liquor
Frances Bell and Catherine Cronin are running what sounds like it’s going to be a brilliant ALT-C session this year – A personal, feminist and critical retrospective of Learning (and) Technology, 1994-2018. Our session is based primarily on two perspectives. The first perspective is rooted … Continue reading Pulling threads
This follows on from a series of previous posts documenting some thinking about integrating WordPress with a VLE via LTI: Laying it all out to begin WordPress LTI Testing: Part 1 WordPress LTI Testing: Part 2 WordPress LTI Testing: Part 3 Doing the thinking above … Continue reading WordPress LTI Testing: Part 4
