This 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
Category: brain-fluff
Notes from #LAK18 Day 1
Jotting 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
Say it with bots
As 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
sonic vapour trails
A Christmas playlist sparked a loose conversation on Twitter, which continued when we bumped into each other at a book launch at ECA, and has had me curating a playlist over the last few weeks to contribute to James Lamb’s Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project. https://twitter.com/james858499/status/955422466872049664 … Continue reading sonic vapour trails
Last week was emotional
I had a tough week last week. One of the hardest I’ve had in a while. I’ve been working on my CMALT portfolio (Certified Membership of the Association of Learning Technologists) for a while and there was another submission deadline on 31 January. CMALT is … Continue reading Last week was emotional
Beyond the tide, love
A conversation on Friday night threw me back over the weekend into reminiscences of growing up on the Fife coast and how much I like being around water. I live not far from the coast now in West Lothian – a few miles only – … Continue reading Beyond the tide, love
Laying it all out in order to begin
WordPress, and linking it to a VLE as a blogging tool, using LTI. Please don’t hit me with a barrage of comments about why I don’t just use WordPress *instead* of a VLE (I’m looking at you in particular Lockley). There are reasons. About 4,500 … Continue reading Laying it all out in order to begin
Things I am going to try in 2018: Listening to new things
https://twitter.com/ammienoot/status/949969161287028736 I think I may have accidentally created a new project for myself for 2018. I thought in response to the tweet above, I might get one or two suggestions back. I was kind of expecting Nicola Osborne would have more than that, but otherwise … Continue reading Things I am going to try in 2018: Listening to new things
Research SPLOTs?
https://twitter.com/projectsoothe/status/948644779352576000 On reading the above, it occurs to me that perhaps we should be rolling SPLOTs into our toolsets for research too. I can see how well the image, video and writing ones could fit with a number of citizen science / crowd sourced research … Continue reading Research SPLOTs?
Some things that happened in 2017
Each year whips by at a cracking pace. I’ve managed to make a relatively sustained effort on blogging this year and, as the year has progressed, I’ve found myself referring back to things I wrote earlier or sending links on to colleagues and friends. So, … Continue reading Some things that happened in 2017