Thursday, May 19, 2022, marked the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and I was privileged to give a talk at University College Cork at their Inclusive UCC Symposium - Creating Inclusive Assessment and Digital Experiences. This was my very first in work in a physical setting since March 2020 and everyone made the experience more... Continue Reading →
Let’s talk about risk
This post has been half written for a while now but listening to @Jessifer’s keynote during the 2020 Digital Pedagogy Lab has prompted me into finally finishing it. Head to the discussion around 55 mins in. “With a nod or an acknowledgement of the fact that professional risk is not distributed equally so not everyone... Continue Reading →
Remote Presenting: Prep and Fluffy Socks
With face to face events and teaching being cancelled in response to the pandemic, some elements may be moving online. For many this is going to be outside their comfort zone and a totally new experience. Presenting can be challenging for many of us at the best of times but if you haven't ever presented... Continue Reading →
Intention: sneaking creativity into medical education
Looking ahead to #OER19 in Galway and browsing the list of great sessions the one I knew for sure that I would be attending was Amaz-Zine: How to create a DIY OER Zine with Amy Burvall and Bryan Mathers as I have long been a fan of both of these creative geniuses. I spotted Amy’s... Continue Reading →
Learning and Teaching through Play: A Play within a Play
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 →
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 →