I’ve had some cause to reflect this week at how great the people I work with are, and in particular the band of colleagues who – much against their better judgement I’m sure – consent to work in my team. Since launching the new Blogs.ed … Continue reading We’re on a roll
Category: brain-fluff
Some myths by which we live
“I have always argued that we can’t live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell … Continue reading Some myths by which we live
Meaningful networking
Tonight we ran our first Girl Geek Scotland event of 2019, focusing on Meaningful Networking. It’s taken a lot of work to transition the organisation over to a new leadership team and we were delighted to finally be underway with a new programme. I love … Continue reading Meaningful networking
Benign Surveillance – some rough notes
A chance meetup with a colleague, friend, mentor today led to a short conversation with him and another colleague about data, surveillance and caring for our students, and some follow-on thoughts which I’m scribbling here for posterity and future thinking. I made my brain squeak. … Continue reading Benign Surveillance – some rough notes
How to Procure Open Source
As part of my work as a Board member of the Apereo Foundation, we’ve been working on new content to more clearly make the case for adopting open source, particularly in education. Alongside that we’ve been working on developing open source health measures that will … Continue reading How to Procure Open Source
NetNarr Follow-ups
I did an online studio visit with some students from Kean University as part of Mia Zamora’s Networked Narratives class. This post is to collect up a few links that I think might be useful follow ups for anyone who watched. The remit of the studio … Continue reading NetNarr Follow-ups
Pop Up Ed Tech, Trust, and Ephemerality
This post captures a back and forth text conversation that Tannis Morgan and I had about an idea that piqued her interest from my NGDLE rant in 2017. I really enjoyed the way we worked this up between us. I wrote a lot of it … Continue reading Pop Up Ed Tech, Trust, and Ephemerality
Head like glue
A day laid up in bed feeling achy and sore, with a head like glue and a 40-a-day cough led to an appeal for podcast recommendations from Brian Lamb (and internet lols and memes which I notice I didn’t get any of – just “Fear-mongering, … Continue reading Head like glue
2018: Apparently it’s been rather busy
I wrote my first yearly review last year, prompted by that there Lorna Campbell and found it a useful (and perhaps cathartic) process so we’re going to do it all again for 2018. In no particular order, this is stuff I’ve been up to or … Continue reading 2018: Apparently it’s been rather busy
Subtitles again
I wrote a short piece recently about audio tracks and transcription in relation to a sign I saw for a coop called Typeology, and some work we are about to do on subtitling. A lot of the investigation that has been done so far in … Continue reading Subtitles again