Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve just finished embroidering a piece for my friend Lindy Richardson’s Processions project – a banner which will join us on the Edinburgh Procession on 10 June, to mark 100 years since the first Suffrage Act. Hopefully I’m not too late – like a bad … Continue reading Tracings (don’t look too closely)
Reading Time: 4 minutesA sunny Monday morning in Edinburgh (one of the signs of the apocalypse) comes with the good news that a proposal to run a half-day workshop at the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning has been accepted. Student-facing Learning Analytics – Principles for Design and … Continue reading Signs of the apocalypse and learner dashboards
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of our multi-year lecture recording programme we are funding a special call within the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme for small research projects. It is important that we properly evaluate such a major change to what happens in our learning and teaching environments (physical … Continue reading Research-led learning
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have great intentions to blog all the best experiences I have, but usually end up finding myself massively over-stimulated and therefore barely coherent. In the interests of not forgetting (and reflecting that I *still* haven’t finished any of my blog posts from LAK18), I’m … Continue reading Sharing a few notes on #OER18
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve started fleshing out my talk for OER18 and I have a pretty clear idea of the points I want to make – I’m going to talk about how teaching open skills is an investment in lifelong learning and digital citizenship; and expand on that … Continue reading Sparks and green spaces
Reading Time: 1 minuteIn writing a quick post to archive our tweets from the PressEd Conference today I can see just how many fragments and drafts of posts I’ve created over the past 4 weeks as I’ve been traveling. I have *a lot* to write about at the … Continue reading Blogging tropes
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday myself and Jen Ross took part in the PressEd Twitter conference, brilliantly organised by Pat Lockley and Natalie Lafferty. They had the genius idea of re-mixing the Public Archaeology Twitter conference format and with much heroic cajoling succeeded pulled in over 40 presentations from … Continue reading Digital Education and WordPress: an historical romp for #pressedconf18
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year I am celebrating International Women’s Day whilst travelling at a conference in Australia. I’m attending the Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference in Sydney and am enjoying spending time with many wonderful women colleagues and their stimulating ideas. The conference is being held in … Continue reading Reflections on #IWD from a different time and place
Reading Time: 3 minutesJotting down a few notes from day 1 at the #LAK18 conference in Sydney before I forget them. I’ve got the usual grand plans for writing blog posts but as my WordPress drafts indicate, best laid plans etc…* I did my pitch for the 2 … Continue reading Notes from #LAK18 Day 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a special Valentine’s treat, Colan, Stratos and myself organised a session for our colleagues in Information Services on AI and chatbots – aiming to draw together and share info about the various activities we have going on in this space. We did some intro … Continue reading Say it with bots
