HI Ed,

sorry it’s taken me a while to reply, but maybe given the content of today’s webinar, a good time to return to your posting. I have some fairly strong feelings about the reasons that it can be hard to engage creative subject staff with online learning and teaching, and I outlined these in a recent presentation at the ICA, powerpoint…[Read more]

HI Flea and Gary,
yes, institutions seem to be a bit pushme pullyou about social media, with some much more risk averse than others. Externally facing blogs have been a constant panic area, but I think things are finally relaxing on this where I am. My current view is that if blogs are integrated into a properly organised online community/VLE,…[Read more]

HI Sue, Gary,

yes, I concur with the ‘ asking what needs doing’ approach in order to engage staff in the first instance, and then finding solutions, rather than trying to impose the lastest insitutional too.. When I started my job there was a lot of resistance to any form of online engagement, and our first successes were in attempting to…[Read more]

Hi all, I’ve been putting CMALT applicatin to bottom of the list for sometime now, but did participate in very encouraging webinar yesterday which has been archived, it seemed like a lot less scary than I thought. The main message was that they need to see reflection in each category, and this is often where people fall down. Link to archive here…[Read more]

my first ever online badges, feel like a Brownie again!