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We are open⤴

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We are open
We are open flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Think of a local store in your neighborhood. You’ve been hired to come up with a hand-drawn “We’re Open” sign for them to hang on the front door. Your design should speak to the spirit of the store, and entice passersby to take a peek inside.Tell us about the store. Show us your ‘We’re open’ sign.

I asked NightCafe to make me:

A hand written sign for a daily create shop. it says:

We are open for:
ideas
challenges
remixes

What it gave me is at the top of this page, with ‘e’ added by me.

Reclaim your voice⤴

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Today’s TDC asks us to talk about creativity and openness.  Here’s my response.

One thing I really appreciate about the Daily Create is that, because it is in the open, I have added motivation to complete it.  Left to my own devices I would sacrifice my creative urges to the need to do admin, or one of the other multiple tasks that invade my head and push out my creative musings.

Small acts of creativity keep me going through the drudgery of paid work.

DS106

People and trust first, technology second⤴

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After a productive early morning call with my excellent OSI colleagues and a satisfying burst of administrivia deck-clearing, I made a second cup of coffee and settled down to read this morning's HESA blog post from Alex Usher. Today he was summarising his thoughts from … Continue reading People and trust first, technology second

Back to work for 2025⤴

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This week has been my substantial back-to-work for 2025 and I'm aware that I've not said much about what "work" is for me these days. For the last 16 months I've been sucessfully running my own consultancy company, mainly working with Canadian education institutions on … Continue reading Back to work for 2025

5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Edtech #OTESSA23⤴

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I did an invited talk yesterday for the kick off day of the OTESSA conference, part of the larger Canadian Congress conference. It was a lovely experience, not least because I was introduced by Connie Blomgren from AU, and Jon Dron was also in the … Continue reading 5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Edtech #OTESSA23

#OER23: Open Education and Open Source⤴

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Although I'm barely back into the UK, I've decide that the resting and relaxing thing to do is to pack up again and head further northwards to the OER23 conference. For many of us this is the touchstone conference, offering not just an opportunity to … Continue reading #OER23: Open Education and Open Source

ChatGPT and Grimm Realism⤴

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So, after my last wee rant about AI, it continues. ChatGPT has eaten our collective minds. We continue to talk about the need to change assessment practices in response to AI , or enthuse about the ways in which it might help us with some … Continue reading ChatGPT and Grimm Realism

Some ill-formed thoughts about AI, robot colleagues, resistance, refusal.⤴

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Unless I toss all my devices in the bin and take up cat-sitting as a profession, I cannot avoid the internet stooshie about AI in education, in this case hand-wringing about ChatGPT and plagiarism. Can we seriously not think of more interesting conversations to have … Continue reading Some ill-formed thoughts about AI, robot colleagues, resistance, refusal.

Procurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in⤴

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I've been thinking and writing and talking a lot about edtech procurement recently. In fact I've been thinking and writing and talking about it for years but it feels like in this moment it might just be getting a little more traction. It might of … Continue reading Procurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in

Edtech is killing us: Random notes on a Neil Selwyn talk about edtech and climate crisis⤴

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Thanks to a blog post yesterday by George Veletsianos I was alerted to a recent talk Neil Selwyn gave to my friends at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at Edinburgh, titled "Studying digital education in a times of climate crisis: what can we … Continue reading Edtech is killing us: Random notes on a Neil Selwyn talk about edtech and climate crisis