I’m making some sort of half-baked effort to clear some posts out of my drafts folder. I’m resigned to the understanding that many will never see the light of day – their time has now passed – but this one is still relevant, and something … Continue reading Some thoughts on extending the LTI Plugin for WordPress
Since I met Tim Drysdale last year we’ve spent some not-small amount of time talking about remote labs, and non-traditional practical work (NTPW) more generally (if you know Tim, you know he can *talk*). I’ve enjoyed the intellectual thrill that comes with learning about and … Continue reading Sustainability and non-traditional practical work
We’re very swiftly moving towards the end of a 3 year programme of work to implement Lecture Recording at the University of Edinburgh and are writing up all sorts of pieces to capture the activities and learnings. The first year of the programme in 2017/18 … Continue reading Looking back on another year of lecture recording
This post, or something like it, has been rattling around in my head and in my Drafts folder for the better part of 18 months now. Since I’ve been doing an amount of work around chatbots and conversational interfaces, and more is coming, I want … Continue reading Dreaming Nefertiti: Ancient queens and chatbots
I said I’d share some recommendations for plugins and themes for a friend who is setting up his own blog (there was *definitely* no alcohol or coercion involved in this decision making, just to be clear) and so it seems sensible to do that by … Continue reading Setting up my own WordPress site – what was I thinking?
The PressEd Twitter conference took place again yesterday, thanks once more to the tireless efforts of Pat Lockley and Natalie Lafferty. This year I flew solo and did the hard work myself. EGads! I had to make some gifs and everything and they were rubbish. … Continue reading Tweeting solo: #PressEdConf19
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
“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
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
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
