And here we are at the end of Week Two. How are people feeling? I was wondering this week if there’s been a bit over compensation to the isolation. FTR, I have been locked up in restricted spaces for extended periods before and whatever hints, tips and tricks you find online to this particular time,…
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Reflections Week One: distance and dissonance
It’s been a bit of a week hasn’t it? And I am not really sure if this is week one! Three weeks ago I think some people were wondering if there would be an impact, two weeks ago, after having run one of the workshops that she’d come to the UK for, Donna Lanclos arrived…
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Being human in a time of crisis
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Troilus and Cressida Co-authored with Donna Lanclos and Peter Bryant There’s been worry, anger, fear, snark, genuine excitement and lots of emotions in between and around those as responses to what educators need to do to interact with each other, and their students, now that we…
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We’re your friends
Having friends in Australia, I have been privileged to have conversations with many of them as they have struggled with supporting students through the Coronavirus crisis. I just wanted to post (with their permission) some of those messages here as a way of signalling some of the things that don’t get reported. The text below…
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A Provocation for Digital Leadership
On 6th December 2019 Jisc launched a Digital Leadership community. As the instigator of the Jisc work in this space I was invited to offer some provocations to kick the community off. I have been around the education technology space for a while, and I thought a retrospective on my personal pursuit of EdTech Unicorns…
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The Tyranny of Innovation
Today (29th November) I sat in a room full of people who support teachers in further education*, they were earnest and honest and quite frankly a little overloaded in the size of the work they need to do, with little budget, and little support. And still I heard stories of people making great progress and…
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Creativity and Innovation: #TESS2019
The Theme for eCampusOntario’s TESS2019 was Level Up Online Learning for Ontario: Experimentation and Impact It was a 2 day event, day 1 showcasing online learning from colleges and universities across Ontario in the form of presentations, panels, and ignite sessions, day 2 was a highly interactive, small group learning experience on H5P, a free…
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…
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Inspired by a Possum
Inspired by an anonymous possum is not normally how I would start a blog post, but the incongruous “EdTech Possum” tweeted sometime in July about Twitter and specifically Tweetchats. Well the first statement “Twitter is not a Personal Learning Network” is contextual, clearly for this particular marsupial, no it probably isn’t. But it is for…
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Thinking in the open about Microsoft Teams
I was at one of the Microsoft Teams education road shows on Thursday (11th July) at their Paddington offices. There is clearly a lot of thinking to be done in this space but I wanted to put down some initial thoughts about what I observed, not just in terms of the presentations I saw, but…
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