Daily Mail, 3rd May 1956 What happens when a Princess driving her own Rolls-Royce hits your car? Mr. Leslie Schutt told yesterday. He was heading home for lunch ln his Standard Eight when, suddenly, right in the back – bump! Curly-haired Mr. Schutt. 26-year old paint salesman. frowned darkly in his mirror to find staring […]
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My Concorde bucket list
So far I have managed to tick 4 Concordes off the list, Reg. No. Location First Flight Last Flight Supersonic Flights Seen by me F-WTSS 001 Museum of Air and Space, Le Bourget, France 02/03/1969 19/10/1973 249 G-BSST 002 Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England 09/04/1969 04/03/1976 196 G-AXDN 101 British Airliner Collection, […]
Daily prompt: what activities do I lose myself in?
What activities do you lose yourself in? For me it’s reading, family history research and jigsaws. In a weird way, they are all linked. I have to read to do the family history research, and what I find is like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle as I try to piece together the lives of […]
International Women’s Day 2024-Bessie Watson
My honour to open the Bessie Watson Lecture room on International Women’s day. Beautiful ribbons in green, white, purple and red! Not yet 100 years. Thank you to Lauren Johnston-Smith Lesley Greer, Katie Grieve Karen Howie Ellen Groen, Susanne Knowles for organising and Gillian Kidd for the fabulous artwork. These women have got the skills …
Building a new learning platform for University of Edinburgh
It’s not often you get to start from scratch putting together a new learning platform for a University. Most learning technologists and digital leaders have experienced the procurement of a replacement VLE, or a migration or upgrade. It is rare that we get to work with partners to design from the start, thinking about the …
Summer interns 2024
I aim to promote an inclusive culture in my organisation. I have a focus on promoting cross-generational working. We welcome student interns as staff, and while not all students are young, they do tend to lower the average age about the place. I am delighted to have such a great group of interns who will …
Marking and Assessment projects 2024 – a crowded space
There is a sudden urgent interest in improving systems which support assessment in the University. Possibly related to the considerable impact felt from the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by the staff union (UCU) last year. The role of learning technology systems in enabling assessment, and the student experience of assessment ( and feedback) is …
International Womens Day 2024
This year we will be naming of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women’s Day 2024. Please join me from 9.15-10.15 a.m. on Friday 8th March to honour Bessie Watson (1900-1992), Scotland’s youngest suffragette. Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women’s Social and Political Union in …
FLORA Project
FLORA (Feedback, Learning, Online Rubrics and Assessment) Ensuring staff and students have an appropriate platform for Exams / Digital Exams Digital tools to support assessment done under exam conditions (with an open question about what ‘exam conditions’ mean in digital contexts … could be in-person computer lab, online, take-home … and involve different types of restrictions to support academic integrity: …
LOUISA Project
LOUISA (Learn Optimised for In-course Submission and Assessment) At the November 2023 Learn Ultra project board, we discussed the business analysis that was undertaken via the Learn Ultra project, focusing on assessment and feedback practices across the University, and the workflows which interacted in/with Learn. The business analysis identified that there was an inconsistent approach …
LAURA Project
LAURA (Learning Analytics in ULTRA) This project will support improving the student experience by ensuring that students, teachers and student support staff are making best use of the data, information and dashboards that are currently available in Learn, and other centrally supported learning technology applications, to gain useful insights. It will tackle perceived gaps in reporting, …
PHOEBE Project
PHOEBE ( Portfolios for Online, Experiential, Blogging and Evidence)
we will be reviewing our e-portfolio and blogging tools.
For Phoebe Bythe, Edinburgh campaigner for women’s training and employment. Phoebe Blyth – Wikipedia