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
Tag: edtech
Getting inside SPLOTs
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
Academic Blogging; or what we did this summer…
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…
To collect or not to collect: that is often not the right question
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
Who knows where the audio track goes?
On a recent trip to the University of Leeds for the EC-TEL conference, I spotted an interesting sign on a noticeboard. I looked up the Typeology website and read the following description: Who are we ? A team of members run Typology together as a … Continue reading Who knows where the audio track goes?
EC-TEL 2018: Student Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards
Rattling back up the tracks from Leeds after a super-fast visit to the EC Technology Enhanced Learning conference. Sadly I couldn’t stay for the main conference, but thanks to the efforts of Dr Adam Cooper, myself, Dr Maren Scheffel and Dr Liz Bennet had the … Continue reading EC-TEL 2018: Student Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards
WordPress LTI Testing: Part 4
This follows on from a series of previous posts documenting some thinking about integrating WordPress with a VLE via LTI: Laying it all out to begin WordPress LTI Testing: Part 1 WordPress LTI Testing: Part 2 WordPress LTI Testing: Part 3 Doing the thinking above … Continue reading WordPress LTI Testing: Part 4
Going out of my head thinking about headless
Since coming back from Verona I’ve been continuing to think thoughts about headless WordPress, and even more so again when asked at the start of this week how we could make the University “Teaching Matters” blog be a part of the University website. The immediate … Continue reading Going out of my head thinking about headless
I think I’m going crazy, I’m gonna go radge
So it seemed like everyone had the SPLOT love going on today. Whilst I was waxing lyrical in a meeting with some students, Jim Groom was knocking one out on the blog after spending time with Daniel at Coventry. I was meeting with some students … Continue reading I think I’m going crazy, I’m gonna go radge
“At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun”
Whilst on a recent holiday to Verona I had the pleasure of snatching a few hours of chat over a drink in the sunshine with Jim Groom, during which he relentlessly argued the case for more use of the WordPress API for syndication and aggregation. … Continue reading “At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun”