I was a twitter use for many years and you’ll find the archeological remains of my twitter use in the blog by the broken embedded tweets that remain. After Elon Musk took over twitter, I decided to leave and I closed down my first account. I still have an archive at cpjobling.github.io/cpjobling-tweets. I had a skeleton presence for some time, but that closed too a few months ago. Now, I’ve gone over to Bluesky (bsky.

🗓️ Today Copied from Obsidian. ✅ Did Hosted the Hugo-generated version of my blog on GitHub pages here: cpjobling.github.io/fresh_and_crispy and set up a repo here: cpjobling/fresh_and_crispy: Static website version of my blog (github.com) 📖 Reading My Hugo setup and how this blog works by [[Taylor Jadin]].

Introduction In August 2024, I decided that I would attempt to move my old Fresh and Crispy WordPress blog to a new static website using the Hugo tool. This is a record of the process that I followed. Installing Hugo I installed Hugo by following the instructions given on the Quick Start. This is the first page that I created using hugo new content/posts/my-first-post.md This is what the new blog site looks like after this first step

Hugo is a static web generator written in Go. I’m thinking of exporting this WordPress site to Hugo so that all the posts, pages and assets are text, easily version controlled and ready for writing as I transition from academia to private life. I’ll keep notes on the process and post them in the new Hugo site.

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.

{{ < figure src=“2020-07-09_09-18-07.png” title=“SALT Conference 2020” title=“Conference logo” >}} 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.

In this time when personal contact with our students is so important I have to comment: https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/1245441295314833411

On Monday I attended the launch and first public lecture of the Swansea University’s centenary celebration Swansea 2020 and the launch of the Centenary Essays site. At the lecture, Sam Blaxland, the historian appointed by the University to write the history of the University’s first 100 years, gave us an excellent overview of the highlights of that centenary and how he went about writing the book which will be released in June.

If Johnson wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the Lights. Mashup based on Sun splash from polling day 1992 I am old enough to remember the Sun newspaper’s 1992 splash “If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights” published on polling day for the 1992 General election. They repeated the same trick, and the same headline, with Ed Milliband in 2015.