Along the lines of the last post I commented on from Doug Belshaw, this also reflects on identify and how what you do for work my swallow that. I’m more familiar with Mike Monteiro’s talks, F*ck You Pay Me, and What Your Client’s Don’t Know and Why It’s Your Fault. Both are excellent watches/listens. That’s…
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What do you *like* to do?
Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel always has interesting stuff to read. Here he shared an excerpt from Kai Brach’s “Dense Discovery” newsletter that resonated with me, what to do with that terrible social interaction that begins with “What do you do?” There was some interaction I was in over a decade ago where this question came…
Stop Trying to Make AGi Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen!
This is another response from Matt Crosslin to George Siemens on AI. I came across it in OLDaily. Downes notes first the comparison of companies, governments, etc. as a sort of intelligent system. But that if you remove all the people, the company, government, or social system ceases to function (much like a Mechanical Turk)…
media, AI and students
I am pleased to be able to offer paid work to 20 student interns to work in ISG as captioners. Alongside AI tools which generate automated captions and transcripts, the human captioners ensure that the standard of quality is good enough to support students with hearing difficulties. This semester (to 5th March) they have …
International Women’s Day 2025
It was my pleasure to sit on a panel of women leaders talking about our careers in tech. We had a friendly audience and the event was very well organised by Ellen, Fiona and Katie. One of the questions from the floor was about women who have inspired us, and we all chose women who …
Get That Bird Off Your Book (a how-to)
I had a question come in recently about how to deal with social media icons, and share buttons, on a Pressbook. There is one social media platform in particular that was at the root of the question. So I’m cataloging here for authors, editors, network admins, etc. a few different approaches you could take. Option…
renewing senior CMALT
I am pleased to have passed the peer assessment for the renewal of my Senior CMALT. It didn’t take very long for the assessment to happen, for which I am grateful.
The fact that I do this openly on my blog and no special log-ins or access is req…
HTML Tip – Links to Text Fragments
I’ve slowly gotten more comfortable over the years with popping open developer tools to inspect webpages to see how things work or to figure out what the heck is going on. Today a colleague and I were discussing options for linking to external sources for training. There are challenges with resources in elearning. You could…
Kawartha Teaching & Tech Conference 2025
Overview I had the pleasure of presenting at this conference (with two astounding collaborators, Jen Loewen and Julie Maier), and hearing about the work going on across the world in teaching and technology. My brain is throbbing a bit, but I tried to capture some of what I learned today here. Student Keynote The conference…
Saying goodbye to VLEs we have loved.
I have written before about the sad death of Aggie Booth and the end of Bodington VLE. Now it is time to wave goodbye to University of Oxford’s WebLearn. There is a celebratory event this week to remember our time working with WebLearn and all the support and innovations we shared in running and using …
The role of profiles
Currently, all staff members within the University are able to create a profile on EdWeb which enables them to present personal information, including biographical and contact details in a number of fields. This allowed information to be shared across multiple pages from a single source by adding the staff’s unique user number (UUN). Colleagues were …