I love a hands-on workshop. Since the pandemic, there have been a lot less of them around, so when I received the Learning Network newsletter which advertised an eLearning Mastery Day, how could I resist? So off I went to Chester, and this was my experience.
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AI is so hot right now. It’s probably been the hot topic of 2023 and everywhere you go there are conversations around its use (and misuse). In this blog post I talk a bit about how I use AI in my day to day, in particular, how I use it as a personal tutor.
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Another year has gone by, and what a year it has been. According to Grammarly, I’ve been more productive than 99% of their users, and wow, I certainly feel it. If I’ve not been busy writing, then I’ve been busy with my head in a book. Like my usual year in review posts, this is what has been happening.
I’m pleased to say that my first journal article has been published in the Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning journal. In this post, I share my experiences of writing for a journal and my experiences of the peer review process.
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Learning JavaScript has been a goal of mine for the past few years, but I’ve never gotten around to starting. Late last year I decided to bite the bullet and sign up for a short introductory course at City University which finished in December. This is how I got on.
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I finally took a trip up to Lancaster University! Unfortunately, it wasn’t for a jolly. I met my supervisor in person, and I attended the Intellectual Party/Summer Conference. I enjoyed the conference and managed to get a bit of research done despite the busy schedule.
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Earlier this year, I joined the steering committee for the M25 region of the Association for Learning Technology and I volunteered to host the summer meeting. Organising the event was pretty stressful but really rewarding. In this blog post, I share my experiences of organising the event.
I’m not sure why I decided to do it, but I did it. I setup a Moodle Development Environment on my local machine using MAMP. I attempted to install Moodle 3 times before I actually got it working. This is my tale….
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If you’ve read through any of my previous blog posts you’ll know by now that I like to try out the latest tools and tech that can be used to create educational content. Today’s tool is lumen5, a video creation platform powered by A.I.
I recently experienced an issue in Moodle where I was unable to create new users. I was receiving an “Error reading from database” message. In this brief blog post, I share my experiences of fixing this error.
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