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
Tag: edtech
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
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
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
A month of Blogs.ed
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
A few loose WordPress LTI threads
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
Containing the Future – OWLTEH18
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
Apprentice SPLOT Maker
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