You may have seen a recent WonkHE article about playful leadership The case for playful leadership | Wonkhe It announces a new research project called Re:PLAY * and I am pleased to say that ISG University of Edinburgh is a partner in this research. It was interesting to me that when the ISG directors had …
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Re-Opening the Eleanor Ormerod Room
I was very pleased to add another space named for inspirational women in STEM to our collection. Celebrating the re-opening of the Eleanor Ormerod Training room in the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library was fairly simple since Eleanor’s info board was already in this room, The LST team have refitted the room and installed lovely …
nice weather for ducks
On some of the hottest days of the year this week, I ventured southwards for two conferences, both featuring birds and both styled in hot pink. EchoExperience25 at the University of Nottingham https://info.echo360.com/attendee-hub-echoexperience-emea and UCISA Women in Technology in Liverpool WiT25 – UCISA At WiT Katie and I spoke about what works in our …
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-04-20
I ran into this on Bionic Teaching and thought it was worth making note of. There are lots of resources out there for web accessibility, and it’s something I talk to people about from time to time. I’m grateful for the course W3C put together and the course I took at UAlberta. I make use…
A Field Guide to Working in Higher Education
I am pleased to get my hands of a copy of this new book A Field Guide to Working in Higher Education The book is designed to support new lecturers who are joining HE from a background in a professional area or career rather than a career in academia. These new teachers draw on different …
how does your garden grow online?
I was delighted to be invited as to National College of Ireland to speak as part of their ‘Assuring Quality in Fully Online Programme Delivery’ event last week. A lovely excuse to visit Dublin again. I chose a gardening theme which enabled me to talk about the time it takes to grow online learning and …
adult Jewish human female
It was my honour this weekend to be part of a Bat Mitzvah ceremony for the daughter of one of my oldest friends. The Bat Mitzvah girl has grown into an engaging, lively, curious and clever young woman and it was lovely to see her take this step into adulthood as she comes of age. …
Ever wonder how much energy your chats with LLMs use?
I came across this tool via Sasha Luccioni on LinkedIn. I started following Di. Luccioni’s work after listening to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 19 – The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models. That quote about “how much water getting ChatGPT to write your email” you’ve probably seen all over social…
Not being bored is why you always feel busy
From Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel, this post reminded me a bit of the Note to Self Bored and Brilliant challenge from maybe decade ago. It also echoes of one of the lessons I’ve learned from karate, to be weary of the three Zs (“zees”): too busy, too lazy, too easy. Anyway, it lead to to…
AI Badge – AI Usage Transparency System
I came across this one via Tom Woodward’s Bionic Teaching. If you land on the page in French there is an English version. Badge AI was created by Philippe Bourque, CEO of Cérebrum and an Artist Engineer from Quebec City. Taking inspiration from Creative Commons, Badge AI offers a framework for creators to show how…
Course Design Should Cost Zero…or not.
I’d thought about ignoring this one until AK posted Course Design Should Cost Zero…or Not. AK always ends with “your thoughts?” so I guess here I am. I ran into the “kerfuffle” via Downes, although I also follow Crosslin, Wiley, AK, and used to follow Siemens although he’s moved around a bit since I read…
How to Use Digital Learning – Part Deux
As I mentioned in How to Use Digital Learning – Part I (gee was that already months ago?) last June I had the priviledge of having work shared with the world alongside so many amazing contributors in the edited book How to use digital learning with confidence and creativity. I’ve been reading it from start to…