Monday

• Submit proposal to QAA Enhancement Themes conference – joint proposal with a student colleague.
• Meeting with our CIO and programme team members to look at some aspects of distance learning tech.
• Exec meeting – planning.
• Catch up with Ewan on Wikimedia activities.
• Learning Technologies Advisory Group meeting – reviewed papers going to LTC including eExams and MOOC Strategy.

Tuesday

• Annual Leadership Away Day

Wednesday

• Learn quarterly service review
• Blogging project kick off
• Review Timetabling integration / lecture recording scheduling workflow with Colin and Alan and Marc.

Thursday

• Aurora mentoring meeting with a colleague.
• Meeting with Cathy Bovill with Euan  and Annie to discuss mainstreaming lecture recording into IAD help and guidance resources.
• Sort out lots of staff development requests.
• Finalise PRAF paperwork.
• College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science RAG reports.

Friday

• GDPR documents for Student Systems colleagues.
• Prep with Ross and Myles for their meeting with Academic Services – use of Learn to support class rep comms to students.
• Comms catch up with Lorraine.

Monday

• Meet with Institute for Academic Development colleagues to check plans, process and money for PTAS project calls.
• Work on job descriptions for 2 team manager posts and re-draft a job ad for a senior service manager / learning technologist role.
• Discuss a ‘state of the art’ workshop with to introduce colleagues to some thinking around key technologies and current capabilities.
• Review comms plans for our lecture recording programme.

Tuesday

• Exec meeting and catch up with Kevin. Lots of recruitment to get going with.
• Catch up with Stephen and catch up with Mark. Review the resource planning spreadsheet.
• Submit proposals to Digital Transformation call for ideas.

Wednesday

• Plan an all ISG staff event to share all the AI projects ongoing at the moment.
• Business processes update for lecture recording / timetabling integration – feedback from the PM on the recent workshops.
• Work on HR paperwork stuff.

Thursday

• Specify reporting requirements for lecture recording with the team and our PM.
• Reviewed the draft of our institutional learning analytics policy.
• Catch up with Colan on GDPR prep activities.
• Catch up with the team on the Eesysoft pilot.

Friday

• Working from home – writing up TEL031 final project report and making notes for blogging kick off meeting.

Wednesday

• Cleared the decks and sorted my diary for the next few months ahead – blocking out all of March for travel.
• Bit of work on my CMALT portfolio.
• Reviewed 2 LAK Hackathon proposals.

Thursday

• Did some HR stuff.
• Struggled through half the day then went home feeling grim.

Friday

• Continued to feel grim.