December Dailies writing prompts. #2 Bloom
Bloom can mean many things, but most importantly flowers! I love flowers. A bunch of flowers is one of my favourite gifts to receive. Bloom
December Dailies writing prompts. #1 Storm
To kickstart my writing this December, I’m going to return to a daily writing practice, and to help me get started there’s a prompt each day. I may or may not share my response here in the blog. Today I’ll start with a topical: Storm Other sources for inspiration
Writing prompts, creative prompts, art prompts and creative challenges
I often find myself with a spare ten, twenty, thirty minutes and want to get down to some writing, but it takes me all my time to think of a subject. I once created a whole blog full of writing prompts, but it seems to have disappeared into the ether,
Sarah’s Secrets: Escape games for induction
At the MoodleMoot 21 I presented on the Escape Games that I’ve developed within Moodle, particularly Sarah’s Secrets, an escape game used for Induction in Autumn 2020 by over 1300 students. Here is the presentation. Sarah’s Secrets for MoodleMoot
Why use Escape Games in learning contexts?
You’ve probably heard of Escape Rooms – where small groups of people are “locked” in a physical room and have to solve a series of puzzles to escape. You can find them all over the world. Escape games are a development, where you’re not actually locked in a room. They
Back to normal OR the new normal?
I was much encouraged to read Ian Wilson’s admission that so far as learning technology goes, after the pandemic online pivot, he doesn’t want to go “back to normal” https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2021/04/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-normal/ I really like his analogy of entering the pandemic as “a well-established caterpillar, familiar with ourselves and our practices. But
Word for 2021
My word for 2021 is CREDO It’s an acronym: C = creativity. I’m starting with some creativity challenges, including writing. In 2020 I felt blocked. So I’m going to flex my writing (or creative) “muscles” every day. And because that makes me feel good, I’ll do it as early in
Santa Lucia
I’m eternally grateful for the music I learned at school. we sang from “Singing Together” and some of those songs I can still remember almost completely! We also learned to play recorder, and thus to read music, another skill I have been grateful for. We’ve formed a choir at work,
Digifest 2019
My aims for Digifest (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/digifest-12-mar-2019) were to find out A bit more about digital literacy and initiatives to improve digital skills Horizon scanning – what’s coming up? How Microsoft Teams (and other Microsoft offering for education) are being used Joel Bloomfield from Microsoft talked about Microsoft’s ambitions for the future
Microsoft Teams vs. Moodle
I’ve been looking for some genuine evaluation of Microsoft Teams versus Moodle. I know that there is a lot that people like about Teams that Moodle (at least our version) can’t do, such as the incorporation of chat, notifications, everything streamed together… But has anyone done a proper comparison? Googling