St Lubbock’s Day! Well one of them. One of the things about bank holidays that come after a long break is that I always feel that it’s like a “get ready for work day”. I’m lucky, often I am recovering from jet lag from a skiing holiday, in readiness to get ready for the first…
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Reflections Week Eleven: Policy, Practice, Behaviour
It’s been a strange week, even by lockdown standards. Last Sunday we saw a government advisor justify breaking his own government guidelines,visiting family 260 miles away, I don’t have words for the tale he spun, the way he manipulated the narrative to put himself in the role of victim; and then justify a 60 mile…
Read moreReflections Week 8
I didn’t post last week. I experienced the impact of the pandemic and the way it is impacting not just health but also the infrastructures that keep society going. People are working from home, in front of screens and on their phones, but communication, or access to the right information is not “business as usual”.…
Read moreReflections Week Five: How do I look?
The end of my week 5 in lockdown (and I know that is not the same as my country’s lockdown period but right now I am grateful for my organisation who decided we should all work from home earlier than required). My twitter timeline blew up this week over a couple of articles, one in…
Read moreThinking aloud: MS Teams, Domain of One’s Own and EdTech
Back in 08 Myself, Cormier and Stiles asked a question about virtual learning environments (VLEs). Extinction or Evolution? Some might have seen the question as a tautology, certainly at the time of writing we anticipated that the VLE of 10 years later would have evolved and changed and look very different, but have the same…
Read moreCC: BYE, an update to the last post
In my last post I wrote …I want my work to be seen, used and adapted, but I want it done in a way that ethically aligns with my values. I do not mind if it is used commercially, but I do want to hold people to an ethical standard. Do I want an ethics…
Read moreLeading Change in Libraries: A keynote for UXLibs 2
We all have experience of change initiatives at one level or another. After being involved in more than 200 change projects across the higher education sector, and working with senior staff at more than 60 universities, this keynote was trying to communicate some general principles around leading change. A lot of people helped me in…
Read moreAnother end of year ed-tech predictions post ;-)
Well here we are at the end of the year, if you’re anything like me then it is indeed the season to be jolly. However, if you’re one of the many thought-leaders out there on the internet then you’ve probably been looking forward to this point in the year for a while and have been…
Read moreOpinion: Stuff digital! Kill the bird
So if you’ve read other posts on my blog you will know I am a bit of a birdwatcher, I admit it, I am biased toward nature. And I do a bit of work in the field of digital capability and technology. But anyway, read on… The “Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher” it sounds fabulous, a stunning…
Read moreEmbedding and Anchoring Change
Today I ran a session to support projects working on the Changing Learning Landscape Programme. This was very much designed by Glyn Jones, and the examples drawn from the work I’ve done working with the LTSN (now HEA), TechDis and JISC. The session was designed to support the embedding of a specified change. This embedding…
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