My Educational Technology Labyrinth
reflections on being lost and found
I rarely draw on my identity as a mother in my professional self; you won't see any photos of my children in presentations and you would be hard pushed to know any details about them from my social media postings. Yet, lying awake these nights reflecting on the turmoil across the world, I can't help... Continue Reading →
Keeping Going by Seamus Heaney is a difficult poem but these are difficult times across the world. I’m not at all qualified to critique poetry but coming back to Heaney as an adult with the parallels of growing up on a farm in the countryside, then leaving it along with the violence-torn country behind, then... Continue Reading →
Having great intentions of writing pithy and insightful memoirs of the initials stages of Covid-19 lockdown, from the perspective of being an educational technologist and mum to three school age girls. Well here it is: ** Schitts Creek No GIF By CBC: Text "Yeah. That's not gonna happen." Credit for post image: Photo by Oscar Keys... Continue Reading →
I've just had two full weeks off. This is the longest, actual 'not working in any way' period for many years and surprise, surprise it was also the first Christmas break without illness. The only concession was PhD reading. Instead it was fighting for top scores on the Wii, baking, walking and playing scrabble. All... Continue Reading →
I've been seriously neglecting my PhD posts so I'm going to do a speed catch up over the week, starting off with the official start date: 1st October 2018, Induction Day. As I'm an unofficially distance student it was great to get to Edinburgh for this but I wondered how much would be relevant to... Continue Reading →
Good grief if I don't press the Publish button now it is going to be 2020, I've already rewritten this about three times and it's not as if it is a work of literary genius. Looking back to this time last year I was reticent about doing a 2017 round up as it had been... Continue Reading →
For the last two weeks I have been curating the @femedtech account on Twitter, which has pretty much been a blast. These are just a few of my thoughts before I hand the baton over to Joyce (@catspyjamas) across the globe in Australia. On the first day I had no idea where to begin, the... Continue Reading →
March was a hectic, busy month but the diversity of generosity of so many different people was quite overwhelming. Proof indeed that transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary is absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with budget and that creativity with a pinch of random, strange ideas can win the day. Oh, and taking the risk to... Continue Reading →
This week is pretty special for me as International Women’s Day and the Launch of the ALT Northern Ireland Members Group collide on 8th March, bringing technology, learning, openness and equality together. I contribute to an online creativity task, the Daily Create (I would highly recommend checking this out) and one recent activity centred on colouring... Continue Reading →
I’m not big on new year resolutions but the combined prompts of #oneword2018 and the Visual Thinkery Elemental Design tool have encouraged me to pick my word for the coming year: boundless. Why boundless? 1. I spend a huge amount of time trying to curtail my children's endless energy: running when they should be walking, bouncing when... Continue Reading →
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