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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Changing the narrative: bell curves and refusal
Donna Lanclos just gave a keynote on “refusal”. It sounds quite negative, but we’d been chatting about the idea, and refusal as act of engagement is something we see a lot of in the sector. Most often we dismiss it, consigning those who refuse change to “not wanting to change”, or “lazy”, or “they don’t…
Read moreThey Have a Fight, Triangle Wins
(this blogpost co-authored by Lawrie Phipps Donna Lanclos) (this post originally appeared on Donna’s website – but yanno – #interwebs!) The last time that Lawrie Phipps and I ran a digital mapping session at the Jisc digital leadership course, early in 2018, we had just finished answering all of the questions we usually fielded once…
Read moreGetting started with digital – some thinking aloud
An academic recently approached me and said: “I have been doing things this way for a long time – I want to do some digital stuff, I am on Twitter, I use Facebook I have good skills in Office and Google, but how do get started with changing my teaching?” It got me thinking. We…
Read moreCutting back on sugar: thinking about behavioural change
In November I and colleagues will be delivering the next iteration of the Jisc Digital Leaders course, the fifth, and we have also got dates in the diary for January and February. One of the elements to the course is change management, we use examples of digital, but the key is the change. This week…
Read moreIdentity, Social Media and David Bowie
Not a new idea, but more following on from my previous post. I was struck on Friday that one of the joys of following work colleagues on social media “after hours” gives you an insight into just how talented they are outside of the outstanding job they actually do. Over the years as I’ve got…
Read moreMapping Practice and Strategy: Leadership tools from Visitors and Residents
I’ve been thinking about the role that recognising and understanding one’s own practice, especially in the digital space, can have when it comes to a more complex awareness of the strategic and operational aspects of an organisation. In serendipitous co-evolution of this idea Lanclos and White have recently delivered a more strategic focused workshop of…
Read moreFive top concerns for Technology Enhanced Practice in 2015
There has been a lot written in the press about the impact of technology, and senior managers in institutions are being bombarded with adverts for workshops and events that offer “space and time for leaders to gain insight into the digital revolution”. In reality many institutions are already prepared, and capable of meeting their technology…
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…
Read moreChanging Learning Landscape: Strategy and Change #CLL1213
This morning I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the “Influencing Strategy and change processes to enable the embedding of digital literacies” event in London. My slides are below, and at the bottom are some of the tweets from during the presentation drawing out some key points. I would also like to…
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