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Yesterday, I received my copy of Martin Weller’s book 25 Years of Ed Tech. Inspired by Chapter 2 The Web (1995), I travelled back in time to my own first attempt to teach online. I visited the Way Back Machine (web.archive.org) to discover that the first official University website (www.swan.ac.uk) was archived on 11th December 1997. Navigating through that web site, I discovered that the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering website (which I built) was archived a few months earlier....

Yesterday was the 12th Annual conference of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT) which, due to circumstances, had to be held on line. I attended but didn’t present but as usual I came away with a head full of ideas and links to follow up on. https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/1280789564794208256 The highlights for me were the session on formative feedback by Monika Seisenberger and Teaching Award winner Liam O’Brien from Computer Science; the Coffee Lounge where I met up with folks for the first time since March; the talk on aligning our Canvas tools to the future of assessment with Instructure’s Jonathan Perry (beamed live from Britains most boring town and Birthplace of Margaret Thatcher Grantham, Lincs....

News of several useful Advance HE guides arrived in my email inbox today curtesy of Stuart Norton of the Learning and Teaching Network of Advance HE Connect. Flexible learning comes of age. Transforming Assessment in Higher Education – if not now…? Assessment: the Game. Student-staff partnership comes of age. Launch of Internationalising Higher Education Framework Guide.

Shall we Zoom? by Chris Jobling 19 May 2020 CC BY ND Inspired by Brian Mathers here’s a little sketch I made about my daily reality. I seem to spend my entire day on (or is it in?) Zoom – meetings, working groups, office hours , examples classes and even social events. Meanwhile my grey beard grows and I turn into a caricature of a mad professor. What’s your day-to-day like?...

Day 36 of the first 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown I’m a bit envious of the Covid-19 journals of my friends and colleagues Chrissi Nerantzi and Sheila MacNeill so today I thought I’d try an experiment and post my Crispy Journal entry for 28th April 2020 here in my blog. There was a bit of formatting to do to convert TiddlyWiki markup to WordPress blocks which would go away if I used MarkDown in both places....