Just a short follow on from my litter data post. As I mentioned, I’m recording myself wandering the streets of West Lothian and narrating what I pick up to put in my bag. I then save a transcript of the recording, give it to an AI which produces me a list of items, highlighting any … Read more
Southampton and Newcastle universities have both said they aren’t renewing Turnitin, a similarity detection platform, going forward. Although Newcastle cites a number of reasons, both institutions mention that the non-renewal is at least partly due to Turnitin’s intention to change its End User License Agreement (EULA) and add new terms allowing them to use submissions … Read more
You may or may not know that I am an avid litter picker in my spare time. We have a very strong litter picking community in West Lothian (West Lothian Litter Pickers – WLLP) and pick thousands of bags of litter across the county year-on-year. I have volunteered to help out as the Social Media … Read more
I’ve been doing a bit of work that’s made me go away and think about OER in more detail than I probably have done in many years. If you don’t know about OER, they’ve been around nearly as long as I have – and have had their ups and downs. You can find out about … Read more
I’ve been doing some work to extract some SCORM packages out of a bespoke VLE and import them into Moodle as something that’s a bit more easily editable directly in Moodle. These are SCORM packages that were, in some cases, create a number of years ago and need a wee refresh. The original source packages … Read more
This is just a quick summary, for anyone who might find it useful, about some testing/mucking around I’ve been doing using AI to create images. In the past, where I’ve had issues finding Creative Commons Licensed images to use on newsletters, I’ve had some success generating images with AI – typically using ChatGPT or Adobe … Read more
I managed to catch the afternoon of this really interesting day of webinars organised by Phil Anthony from the University of Kent. I found the whole afternoon really interesting, and if you are interested in watching any of the presentations, they’ve already been uploaded to the Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars YouTube channel – super efficient! … Read more
People who know me or have read my blog posts before likely know that I’m a bit of an environmentalist. I litter pick in my spare time and recycle anything I can. I’ve been interested in digital sustainability for a while now too. However, some of you might be thinking… then why do you spend … Read more
I recently did a course on LinkedIn Learning about Cybersecurity. I know quite a bit about cybersecurity already (although I’m not an expert) but given my service management/ownership and development experience you pick things up. This was a bit of a refresher and I learned a bit more about some of the frameworks that underpin … Read more
So other than gardening and fence painting (it seems to take forever!), I’ve been doing a bit of the Anthropic Academy training on using Claude, whilst continuing to play with Claude Code in the background. What the training has helped me with is understanding how to use Claude more efficiently, which has been interesting – … Read more
