I’m excited to be taking part in Open Education Week, a worldwide event celebrating all things open in education. I am involved in a week-long celebration of blogging on the open web hosted by Reclaim Hosting; and I am also joining Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director of BCcampus and Marcela Morales, Executive Director OEGlobal, on OE Global Voices on March 4th! Here are all the details, so join in: In the OEG Voices Podcast Studio with Amanda Coolidge, Marcela Morales,…
Category: open practice
Today is a slow day. I am feeling uninspired and un-motived. My energy levels are low. In my years as a CEO I had plenty of days like that, but very rarely gave myself permission to be unproductive. CEOs, and people in positions of power in general, like to think of themselves as too busy to pause, as indispensable. Being busy is a badge of honour for others to take note of. And so, as…
The game is heating up in the blogosphere… so I better jump in and join the fun. Commenting (of course), and blogging. What’s happening is… a new community of practice all about blogging. Blogging in Higher Ed. Blogging for Educators. Blogging for life (#4life). Time to get remixing your badge and get ready to follow Jim Groom’s call to action: …it’s high time to let your blog flag fly. Dust off that archived site, or…
It’s the time of year again… and as someone who works remotely with clients across different timezones, most of my ‘festive’ moments at work are unceremonious video calls that end abruptly as everyone rushes off to their next meeting. Meanwhile, across the various social media spaces I take part in, corporate messages of (apparent) goodwill mix uneasily with cheery commercial overload, making it hard to find the actual updates from actual people I care about.…
I’m always interested in new ways to keep blogging and recently I had the opportunity to try a new approach, which we might call ‘braided’ blogging. This came about through a coaching conversation with Mark Corbett Wilson, whose blog, Talking with Machines, is definitely worth a visit. With a rich background in making art, storytelling and digital technologies, Mark is always up for trying new ways of collaborating on the open web and for this…
In the best tradition of blogging about blogging, today’s post is all about getting started with or getting back into blogging. Recently I have had lots of conversations with folk who would like to blog more, but don’t. Or who feel they *should* be blogging more often, but they haven’t actually managed to do so. If that’s you and you are looking for ways to get your blogging mojo back, this post is for you.…
Every now and then I take a month and celebrate a small win every day. When I blogged about this a couple of years ago, the motivation came from a time of being overstretched, a period during which it felt like no matter how much I did I never achieved enough. This time round my motivation is different, and more aligned to my desire to practice gratitude and to make the most of a busy,…
Hi, welcome to this blog post which I am not typing but dictating. It is now mid-morning and I have plans to be getting on with before I have to be at my desk. So I wanted to try and write this blog post as I’m doing things… I’m making some coffee just now and I’ve just come back from walking the dogs. So it is a good time to blog but not a good…
As I am half way through the year, I am taking a look back at what I have blogged so far, and in the best tradition of the form, to blog about blogging once again. And, if you missed one of these, now is a good time to catch up and bookmark posts for future reading. Blogging in numbers 2024 has been a good year for blogging (it’s always a good year for blogging!). I…
The ASCILITE’s Women in Academic Leadership Initiative aims to provide mentoring opportunities for academics and brings together its members via a community approach to support each other to progress in academia. Thanks to a recent invitation to speak at an upcoming WiAL webinar, I have started to think about my journey as a leader and what I could usefully share with this group of inspiring and aspiring academic leaders. My story, like so many of…