Act I: Setting the scene The words above are taken from an “ode to Adams House” that Seamus Heaney penned to as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its founding in Harvard (Kiely, 2013). It speaks of the differences between our youth and our experiences during university. Heaney is clear in the... Continue Reading →
The Manifesto for teaching online and my postcard
This post is in preparation for a Creativity at a Distance Workshop by Tanya Elias and hopefully it makes sense outside of that context. I have put down my thoughts about a postcard I created in the first module of the Digital Education programme at the University of Edinburgh as a way of linking the annotation of the... Continue Reading →
Creativity, Distance Learning & Connections
This is an overview/tour of some of the creative elements that I have experienced over the last two years as a student on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. It has been on my to-do-list for a while but a recent post by Tanya Dorey-Elias, Creativity at a Distance, was the... Continue Reading →
Can’t Crochet, Won’t Crochet
This post was an assignment for #mscde - Understanding Learners in an Online Environment. It is my reflection of a learner challenge, a new motor skill. It was submitted in March 2017. Starting out Upon initially reading the assignment I immediately thought of crochet, a skill that has alluded me from childhood. However, examining the details... Continue Reading →
Falling between the cracks: in search of a mentor
Zoshua Colah Over the last couple of years I have been reading about the benefits of mentoring and colleagues have shared the many positive experiences they have gained from having a mentor. So what’s the problem? Simply put, as an education technologist, as with many other aspects of my professional life, I fall between the... Continue Reading →
The VLE: It’s about the people, people
I had to give a presentation this week on my ideas of how to inspire academics to use the VLE. The timing of this meant that I had read Kerry Pinny's I am not your enemy blog post the week before, along with the numerous heartfelt reactions this generated. Admittedly, this wasn't the ideal article... Continue Reading →
Diving into #clmooc
Having been on the periphery of previous #clmooc (Connected Learning MOOC (#clmooc) A Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration) runs this year I was determined to dive on in. The barriers to joining in were to do with summer being my busiest time, for workload and family, but after so many years of following on the... Continue Reading →
Twitter Me
Who is Twitter Me? Who do people see? Professional Me? #edtech in HE, #digitalliteracies, reflection? At Home Me? Gardening, baking, making, reading, parenting? What now – she has kids? (Don’t you see; I have three – growing & learning; Ridiculously bendy and endlessly in-de-fa-tig-able) Overly optimistic of what can be done with no time to spare?... Continue Reading →
Putting open on trial: my response
For one of my MSc Digital Education modules I wrote an essay and put it out in the open for ‘marking’ for want of a better word: Turning to the community: my open learning journey. This is my response* to all those people who took time not only to read it but to comment and... Continue Reading →
#CMALT is driving me crazy: part 4
At this point the title of this series ‘#CMALT is driving me crazy’ maybe needs updated to ‘#CMALT drove me crazy’ as I officially received my certificate and badge in January. It was even more exciting as I wasn’t required to make any changes. Cue an immediate celebration on Twitter but it is now time to... Continue Reading →