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 →
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 →
Lockdown wisdom
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 →
Letters of care, a redesign of our OER20 workshop
Building stories of care against a discourse of resilience [O-019] Sharing letters of care against the backdrop of a pandemic [O-019] Update post conference - 3rd April 2020 The recording of our 'round the camp fire' discussion on care, wellbeing and resilience: https://youtu.be/v5DYEYSVJ4I The slide deck of letters Kate Molloy (@hey_km) and myself were supposed... Continue Reading →