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Beyond the text book, using learning resources for open educational practice workshop

Last Friday, 6th February, I had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop at DCU hosted by Dr Eamon Costello, Head of Open Education, NIDL, Dublin City University. The webinar was one of a series of open workshop events funded by the National Forum taking place across Ireland. Around 25 delegates from a number of universities … Continue reading “Beyond the text book, using learning resources for open educational practice workshop”

Context, criticality , community, collaboration, snapchat, shoes and space blankets #altc 2018

The words in the title kind of sum up my experience of the #altc conference last week.  What a week, I think I am still recovering – though in a good way!   As this year marks the 25th anniversary of the association,  my fellow Trustees  took over the conference co-chairing, with myself and Martin Weller … Continue reading “Context, criticality , community, collaboration, snapchat, shoes and space blankets #altc 2018”

Reflecting on my wanderings in the cloud and starting to re-evaluate my digital self

It’s with some irony that our internet connection seems to have gone done and I realise how much of my online life I have let be only accessible via cloud services. As it’s probably only temporary glitch and I’m on holiday, I’m quite chilled about it. My phone 4g signal is fine so I can … Continue reading “Reflecting on my wanderings in the cloud and starting to re-evaluate my digital self”

Pre #bydo4l reflections on twitter, Trump and why I'm not leaving social media

I’m getting ready for the week long social media frenzy that is #BYOD4L (bring your own device for learning).  This is the 5th iteration of the open, online course and as it’s evolved, it’s becoming less about devices and more about general effective use of technology within in education.   As I’ve blogged about before, … Continue reading “Pre #bydo4l reflections on twitter, Trump and why I'm not leaving social media”

Some reflections on "mapping the learning and teaching"

I’m big fan of the Visitors and Residents (V&R) mapping methodology. As well as being part of the HEA Challenges of Web Residency programme, I’ve been using it with staff in various ways from an ice breaker to a teaching activity.  It’s a really great way to get discussions started around how/where/when we use technology … Continue reading “Some reflections on "mapping the learning and teaching"”

Open CPD, digital evidence and personal open boundaries#op

I really enjoyed Chrissi Nerantzi’s session at #oer15 “Nothing stops us now” on open, collaborative CPD”.  Having participated in the #BYOD4L open online course (developed by Chrissi and Sue Beckingham) initially as a participant and earlier this year as a facilitator and institutional partner,  I know first hand the power of collaborative development and sharing of practice. It really … Continue reading “Open CPD, digital evidence and personal open boundaries#op”

Embedded or insurgent? – where Sheila’s been for the past few weeks.

I’m conscious that so far in 2015 my semi-regular weekly round ups of Where Sheila’s been or what Sheila’s seen haven’t quite made it to 2015.  This is due to a number of things including #byod4l and other work “stuff” which I have been the focus of any blogging I’ve been doing. I’ve been at GCU for about 15 months … Continue reading “Embedded or insurgent? – where Sheila’s been for the past few weeks.”

What Sheila's seen this week – rebooting CPD, poundland pedagogy, bricolage and more learning analytics

It’s been another busy week here at Blended Learning Towers, so this post is really a whirlwind reminder of where I’ve been this week and some things that have caught my eye. On Tuesday I attended the ALT Winter conference – Rebooting CPD at the University of Edinburgh. There were a number of really great … Continue reading “What Sheila's seen this week – rebooting CPD, poundland pedagogy, bricolage and more learning analytics”

Open, agile, fun collaboration #BYODL and #GCUGamesOn creative challenge

One of the great things about working openly is that is leads to all sorts of serendipitous collaborative opportunities. Last week we had a lovely example of that when we were able share a joint creative twitter challenge between our online event #GCUGamesOn and the latest iteration of #BYOD4L. Friday was the final day of … Continue reading “Open, agile, fun collaboration #BYODL and #GCUGamesOn creative challenge”

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