Giving up the Ghost

Fresh and Crispy has been running as a self-hosted Ghost blog for a couple of years now but today I moved it back over to a self-hosted Wordpress blog. One of the main reasons for the move is that upgrading the Ghost software is a painfully slow manual process. Other reasons include my desire to try technologies like Mike Caulfield’s Wikity which needs a Wordpress multi-site and the sheer convenience of being able to blog from the Wordpress App....

September 18, 2016 · 1 min

You've been upgraded to the latest version of Ghost

You’ve just upgraded to the latest version of Ghost and we’ve made a few changes that you should probably know about! Woah, why does everything look different? After two years and hundreds of thousands of users, we learned a great deal about what was (and wasn’t) working in the old Ghost admin user interface. What you’re looking at is Ghost’s first major UI refresh, with a strong focus on being more usable and robust all round....

September 16, 2016 · 1 min

Golden Tweeter Award

I am humbled at being made the 5th recipient of the prestigious #LTHEChat Golden Tweeter Award for [my] continuous commitment, valuable contributions and creative energy to the weekly LTHEchat as both a member of the community and as a volunteer member in two organising teams, from January to June 2016. My thanks to the LTHEChat community for this recognition! Comments: My CPD in 2016: Part 2 #LTHEChat – Fresh and Crispy - Jun 1, 2017...

July 22, 2016 · 1 min

Tweet Chatting - Readdress the VLE

On Friday I stumbled across #GuildChat which was discussing the Learning Management System (LMS) or what we in the UK call the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As a long-time participant in Wednesday’s #LTHEchat (@LTHEchat) I expected the chat to be “storified”, but as it wasn’t, I’ve taken the liberty of making my own record. Here it is. View the story “#GuildChat Readdress the LMS” on Storify About #GuildChat and #LTHEchat #GuildChat is a weekly Tweet Chat hosted by the eLearning Guild (@eLearningGuild)– a US membership organization that seems similar to the UK’s Association for Learning Technology (@A_L_T)....

April 10, 2016 · 1 min

Unofficial Storify of #HEAchat/#LTHEchat February 2016

View the story “#HEAchat/#LTHEchat February 2016” on Storify Comments: My CPD in 2016: Part 1 #HEAChat – Fresh and Crispy - Jun 4, 2017 […] It looks like I made a story for this one: See Unofficial Storify of #HEAchat/#LTHEchat February 2016. […]

February 24, 2016 · 1 min