I have been watching a documentary series recently on the art of design, and one episode about Jonathan Hoefler: Typeface Design in particular captured my imagination. It’s an amazing glimpse into a professional and creative practice that combines material and digital elements effortlessly. Anything from maps in museum collections to books and wooden blocks to visualisation tools and digital pens is part of the process of creating a new typeface, which then is used both…
Maren Deepwell Posts
This post, which is an ‘outtake’ from my regular series of Virtual Teams posts with Martin Hawksey, is me thinking out loud about how working from home can lead to doing a lot of housework. I reflect on how to avoid being landed with all the chores because you are based at home and how maybe you can make housework work for you for reclaiming some balance. Working from home = doing the work of the…
Welcome to this month’s post (cross-posted here) in which we, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), openly share our approach to leading a virtual team. This time we talk about how much strategic progress we have made in the last few years and how being a virtual team has contributed to that. We also discuss our values as an organisation, how we have tried to reduce our impact on the environment and…
This week I am looking forward to contributing to the 4th Annual Further Education Technology Forum in London. It’s a great opportunity for me to spend a day learning from and listen to colleagues who work for FE providers and I very much value the practical insights that the day affords me. This year, due to some fortunate circumstances beyond our control, I am delighted to speak together with Bob Harrison, whom I have known…
Welcome to this month’s post (cross-posted here) in which we, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), openly share our approach to leading a virtual team. This time we talk about how we as a digitally and geographically distributed team connect face to face and why we think a blended approach is important. New here? Catch up on earlier posts, podcasts or find out more about ALT. August Maren: from the outset our…
A few weeks ago I recorded an episode of Getting Air with host Terry Greene. This excellent podcast series is focused on all things technology-enabled and open learning practices and I was delighted to join Terry and really appreciated the opportunity to have this conversation. If you haven’t discovered this podcast for yourself, browse through the episodes and you are sure to find a conversation that is not to be missed… starting with the recent…
It’s nearly September and since 2008 that’s meant that – at least in my world – it’s time to get ready for ALT’s Annual Conference. It’s an exciting time of busy preparations, 101 things to remember and, importantly, shoes to line up to pack for the week ahead (those of you who know about #shoetweets will understand). As ALT’s chief executive my role in the conference run up is all about strategy, income generation, academic…
This post was originally published here http://femedtech.net/published/humanity-of-data-altc/ . Inspired by this post by Frances Bell and the upcoming ALT Annual Conference I have been reading up on a this approach for “aspirational metrics” D’Ignazio & Klein (2018) use for their forthcoming book Data Feminism, and in particular their thoughts on the humanity of data, which I’m quoting below: We acknowledge the humanity of data We recognize that the transformation of human experience into data often entails a reduction in…
Like many, I have been inspired by posts and a conversation about writing, in particular these posts: There are pieces of writing in the comments here that augment and change what was there before. New ideas have shown up. I see now it’s co-written in deep ways. https://t.co/2cCmJT3XxD — Kate Bowles (@KateMfD) August 15, 2019 blog post: Want to be a paperback writer https://t.co/8UVK8icPTS (following on from @KateMfD post) — Martin Weller (@mweller) August 15,…