We launched our new University Academic Blogging service a month ago, with a significant new piece – our Blogs.ed WordPress platform – and it’s been a sheer delight to watch Blogs.ed grow. I’ve mentioned in a previous post that as well as being closely aligned … Continue reading A month of Blogs.ed
There are about 8 blog posts queued up and needing written before things start to fade from my memory. I’ve even made a list in case I forget them. However, I can’t quite stop myself from just quickly bashing this one out if only to … Continue reading A few loose WordPress LTI threads
All the best ideas start with a good lunch, and so it is with this one. Some time ago, my colleagues Jacky MacBeath, Rachel Hosker, Melissa Highton and I were mulling over lunch in the Art College cafe as to what we might do to … Continue reading Making an exhibition – thankfully not of oneself
The last 4 days have been crazy, overstimulating, mind-blowing. A day in Coventry for a MozFest fringe event, a day in London at the V&A, 2 days at MozFest. 1 more day of art immersion left to go… I’m not entirely sure I’m going to … Continue reading Containing the Future – OWLTEH18
Continuing my foray into enquiry-based, self-regulated, mastery learning, I’ve been hacking away at some more SPLOT code. After my last efforts I felt like I now had enough knowledge to try customise the SPLOTBox theme to see how well it might fit my requirements for … Continue reading Apprentice SPLOT Maker
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
