Posts from 2016

As part of our preparation for our presentation for Social Media in Higher Education in December (#SocMedHE16), the team is looking at various ways to assess the impact of the weekly #LTHEchat. As part of this, I agreed to attempt to record a flavour of the excitement of the event by capturing snapshots of the growth of the network over a twenty-four hour period using Martin Hawksey's TAGSExplorer which generated this visualisation, and Jing.

I created a storify of the tweets and some of the reaction:

View the story "#LTHEChat 66 - the growth of the network".

We should definitely reflect on Richard Treves' comments that appear at the end of the story:

#LTHEchat @cpjobling @S_J_lancaster genuine Q re network graphs: what r they showing other than 'thers lots of traffic'? R they just cool? https://t.co/2VQSaHfupx

— Trevesy (@Trevesy) November 2, 2016

Today I had a short Twitter Conversation with James Clay which followed this tweet from JISC's #codesign16 meeting:

https://twitter.com/jamesclay/status/793745542572601344

I replied:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/793760715882500097

https://twitter.com/jamesclay/status/793762172715331584

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/793763365575389184

https://twitter.com/jamesclay/status/793765277976649728

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/793866758419537920

James has also blogged about this in I know Where You Are and is following up in this JISC blog post "What does the imminent arrival of the intelligent campus mean for you and your students."

What do you think?

James has published more of the discussion of the intelligent campus from #codesign16 in this storyfy.

In last night's #LTHEChat Phil Race (@RacePhil) led us on a reflection of the feedback we've received and given. Here are the questions and my answers:

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788817007659581441   https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788818629404098560

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788819039263006721

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788819507380940800

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788820192050683910

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788822024743481344

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788822427048484867

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788823821612617728

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788824542361845760

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788825059842519045

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788827056427544576

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/788829575031554049

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830337245806592

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830868500602881

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788831912584437762

All in all

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788832543726526464

The storify has already been published: #LTHEChat 65: Feedback and feed-forward: language and timing.

This Wednesday's #LTHEChat was the first of this new semester's joint monthly get togethers with the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The topic was connection for student retention (or student resilience as Vincent Tinto prefers to call "retention" which he regards as an institutionally focused word). As usual there was a lot of useful sharing. Here's the Storify: Connection for Retention- building effective learning relationships.¶

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My CPD in 2016: Part 1 #HEAChat – Fresh and Crispy - Jun 4, 2017

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Robert Dragan (@robert_dragan) and Dawn Alderson (@dawn_alderson) led a very lively tweet chat yesterday on Assessment and Student Engagement. Despite Twitter itself playing up, colleagues discussed the following six thought provoking questions and you can read the full record that was captured in Storify. Here is the TAGSExplorer visualisation.

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778670656112070656

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778672665867325440

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778675169724211201

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778677683383263232

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778680210598141953

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/778682731790118912

Assessment is definately on my agenda at the moment, and I'll need some time to reflect on my own thoughts on this topic. But themes that seemed to emerge from the chat were that assessments that engage students need to be be authentic, aligned to the learning outcomes, and negotiated with the students that we are assessing.

LTHEchat continues to go from strength to strength and is my primary way of topping up my enthusiasm for teaching. Why not join me, next Wednesday at 8:00 pm BST?

I attended the first run of FutureLearn MOOC #FLble1 Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started last year. Because of other commitments, I couldn't take part in the first run of the second part #FLble2 Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Practice but it looks like I have another chance in the re-run that starts 3 October.

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/778548535130226688

Highly recommended!

If you missed it, the team leaders Diana Laurillard and Neil Morris gave a talk on the Blended Learning Essentials courses on Future Learn at the 2016 Alt Conference.

Renate and I walked to the Swansea Central library today and on our way back we were fortunate enough to see the start of the Swansea 10k run. I hope everyone had a good time.

Fresh and Crispy has been running as a self-hosted Ghost blog for a couple of years now but today I moved it back over to a self-hosted Wordpress blog.

One of the main reasons for the move is that upgrading the Ghost software is a painfully slow manual process. Other reasons include my desire to try technologies like Mike Caulfield's Wikity which needs a Wordpress multi-site and the sheer convenience of being able to blog from the Wordpress App.

To transfer my content, I had to use the Python script ghost2wp.py provided by tzangms to convert from Ghost's JSON format to WordPress's xmlrpc. But that went very smoothly.

The Ghost blog will stay active as ghost.cpjobling.me for a while: at least until I have transferred some of the tags over.

You've just upgraded to the latest version of Ghost and we've made a few changes that you should probably know about!

Woah, why does everything look different?¶

After two years and hundreds of thousands of users, we learned a great deal about what was (and wasn't) working in the old Ghost admin user interface. What you're looking at is Ghost's first major UI refresh, with a strong focus on being more usable and robust all round.

The main navigation menu, previously located at the top of your screen, has now moved over to the left. This makes it way easier to work with on mobile devices, and has the added benefit of providing ample space for upcoming features!

Lost and found: Your old posts¶

From talking to many of you we understand that finding old posts in the admin area was a real pain; so we've added a new magical search bar which lets you quickly find posts for editing, without having to scroll endlessly. Take it for a spin!

Questions? Comments? Send us a tweet @TryGhost

Oh, and yes – you can safely delete this draft post!

I am humbled at being made the 5th recipient of the prestigious #LTHEChat Golden Tweeter Award for

[my] continuous commitment, valuable contributions and creative energy to the weekly LTHEchat as both a member of the community and as a volunteer member in two organising teams, from January to June 2016.

My thanks to the LTHEChat community for this recognition!¶

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My CPD in 2016: Part 2 #LTHEChat – Fresh and Crispy - Jun 1, 2017

[…] I was also awarded the Golden Tweeter award in July 2016. […]