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Month: September 2020

Home-worker… care-work… self-care.

Last year I wrote a post about how working from home can lead to doing a lot of housework. I reflected on how working from home made me feel like I had been landed with all the domestic and care work and I explored ways in which I reclaimed a better balance. A year on, and several big life changes later, seemingly everyone is now working from home and finding any kind of balance is…

My CEO Report, September 2020

Read my new CEO Report to @A_L_T Members #altc https://t.co/5uk8WlPmi8 pic.twitter.com/NcAtcTIWhY — Dr Maren Deepwell (@MarenDeepwell) September 11, 2020 Dear Members Since my last report to you in June, much has happened in our community and the Association. From senior leaders to new recruits, everyone in Learning Technology has been working flat out to prepare for the start of the new academic year and continuing to cope with the impact of the pandemic.  Whilst it…

How we survived a pandemic: Part 4 – Virtual pizza nights and other distributed team social activities

This is a conversational blog post (cross-posted here) between Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell). We are using this approach to create some space to think together in ‘unprecedented times’.  For regular readers this is a slight departure from our regular ‘Virtual Teams’ posts (you can read those on our Virtual Teams summary page) taking a broader view of work whilst midst global pandemic.  In this month’s post we share our reflections on socialising…