Despite the fact that I’ve been using our learning and teaching services for years, I occasionally do discover something new about them that surprises me. I’ve had a couple of these moments recently, and I thought I’d share them because, well, it may be useful to someone who reads this. I’ve also written a short … Read more
We’ve been thinking about how to invigilate digital exams. I have found this hard, I’m not sure I agree with it. Somehow it feels far more intrusive digitally than in a room with an invigilator. However, I do understand that sometimes it may be necessary and not all assessment can be redesigned (particularly not with … Read more
It’s been a while since I blogged – I’m sorry about that. I’ve had a load of possible blog post topics bubbling around in my head with very little time to reflect. However, I’m getting to the stage where I feel like a few blog posts might help clarify my thinking on some subjects so … Read more
I’ve been a technologist for more than 20 years now. Although my brain is definitely slower to pick up new technologies now the one thing I do bring to my role is experience. Most often that not, I’ve seen a similar tool or a similar issue or a similar time. What we are currently facing … Read more
I’ve started this blog post literally minutes after ALT-C has come to and end. I have written copious notes, and fully digesting them will probably take weeks (or months!) but I wanted to write about the highlights of the conference for me. First of all, although I’ve been (kind of) a Learning Tech for (er…*counts*) … Read more
If you are a follower of my blog (well, the collection of random blog posts I’ve written), you’ll know that almost exactly a year ago, I moved from a position of IT Manager in a School to my post in Information Services as the Technology Enhanced Learning Team manager. It’s funny to look back and … Read more
I spent a good part of last week at Blackboard’s Teaching & Learning Conference in Newcastle this week with some of my excellent Edinburgh colleagues plus many excellent colleagues from around Europe – some of whom I knew virtually and met in real-life, for the first time, at the conference. They were real humans, it … Read more
You may know that we are moving Learn to the cloud in the summer. This is a good thing – it will mean we can do more frequent updates to the application with less downtime. At the moment, we are restricted to a single update of the application over the summer, because they require downtime … Read more
We ran our ‘Get Blogging’ event yesterday during the Festival of Creative Learning Week. It was a really fun event and we packed loads in. We’ve got a proper blog post coming about the event soon. In the meantime, I promised the attendees I’d share our PowerPoint slides with them and this is the purpose … Read more
To start with some apologies, I’ve been writing this blog post for about 3 months. This is not how I’d recommend you blog! So, I was thinking about our service wearing my old School hat. That is, the perspective I would have had in my previous job as the School IT Manager in History, Classics … Read more
