Digital detox – wellbeing week.
A couple of weeks of spending long days online and working hard have prompted me to embark on this year’s digital detox. The last one I did was in November 2020 and focused on the Data Detox…
Looking forward to my 12th ALT Annual Conference – completely online
My first ALT Annual Conference was in 2009 in Manchester (I missed the first year I was working for ALT because I was submitting my PhD that September). Umbrellas, badges, fire alarms.. looking back In 2019 we…
Virtual Teams Book: Building a virtual team spirit… extract from Chapter 2
Progress since the last post Since my last post, I have been working on Chapter 2. It was great to work in this chapter as it includes a lot of practical strategies and case studies, which were…
August ’21: I’ve been busy! (and I made a terrarium)
This past month has been BUSY. I am good under pressure, but it took a lot of energy and effort to keep things in some sort of resemblance of balance this month. ALT is always busy in…
Poseidon, bin collector, judge. What I wanted to be when I was a kid.
When things are busy, it can be tough to make time and space for YOU. So in order to make some space for ME on MY blog, this is a blog post all about… me 🙂 Reflecting…
Making time for CPD in a Learning Technology Leadership role
In the past year it’s been hard to make much time for professional development, or at least the kind of professional development you can plan. Like many in my position, I had a huge amount of professional…
We are looking for a COO… a look behind the recruitment doors
We are currently recruiting for a Chief Operations Officer for ALT, and I couldn’t be more excited! It’s always great when you get to grow your team, particularly when there are only seven of you and each…
Virtual Teams Book: Trust & surveillance… extract from Chapter 3
In July, I drafted the first chapter of my book about leading virtual teams. Head over here to learn more about the project. Progress since the last post Since my last post, I have been working on Chapter 3.…
Joining Conversations for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
I recently joined the anti-racism & learning technology group. If you’d like to learn more about the work of the group, there is a series of blog posts on the #altc blog which provide a great starting…
June & July ’21: A break, a book and back to running
I was on a long awaited break at the end of June and I missed out blogging about what I did in June… and so you get double the monthly blogging goodness in one post 🙂 First…
