A love letter to #DS106radio emergency broadcasting
July 22, 2021Tomorrow’s the big #ds106 #ds106radio marathong and I can’t wait for 24 hours of broadcasting on my favourite radio station. I came late to this great endeavour and only really got into DS106 Radio in 2020, when my friends Tannis and Anne-Marie and I started broadcasting every Sunday throughout lockdown from Canada and the UK respectively. If you’d like to get a flavour for what we got up to, then head over to this post from July 2020 or hear us chat about it in this video Hope on the Airwaves from the OERxDomains21 Conference in April 2021. I got…
‘Not just another online conference’… my hopes as CEO for ALT’s first Annual Conference online
ALT was founded in 1993 and last year was the first (and hopefully only) year in our history that we didn’t run our Annual Conference. Instead we organised a Summer Summit that provided much needed crisis support…
Virtual Teams Book – First Chapter Done
Just over a month ago, this project to write a book about leading virtual teams got underway. If you missed the first post that explains what the book is about and the open approach I am taking,…
Reclaiming… my morning run
In 2019 I ran three Half Marathons. Last year, I barely ran over 200 miles in total. Life happened In contrast to many people who started running during the pandemic or upped their miles, I had no…
Virtual Teams – The Book Project
Welcome to the first post in the Virtual Teams Book series. Read on or find out more about this project. An introduction: From learning online to working online More and more organisations are moving to working remotely.…
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Maren Deepwell
Charity CEO in EdTech. Ethical, open leadership. Feminist. She/her
