Reflection on what I have learnt.
My favourite event of the year so far has been the IDTX: Evidence Informed Practice Conference 2026. This review has been a long time coming, as I attended back in May. It was my first time at this conference, and also the first time it had run in person.
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My second LN Mastery Day of the year, and this time it was in Birmingham. The day was made up of three workshop; Designing for lasting behaviour change, Product Design for Learning (rapid sprint) and What factors determine learning transfer success. Here are my thoughts about the day.
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Yep, I know it’s February, so I’m a bit late with my year in review post. Looking back, I realised I never actually wrote a 2024 review post, so technically this is very late indeed. But I think I can be forgiven, since I’ve posted more than usual this year. So let’s get to it.
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Following on from my talk earlier this year, the DLI invited me back to present a webinar on mobile apps for digital learning. In this blog post, I reflect on the session and explore how apps can influence learner motivation, confidence, and engagement.
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Illustrator has been part of my toolkit for years, mainly for editing icons and working with vector-based graphics. When I moved away from Acrobat, I began questioning whether Illustrator and Photoshop were still right for me. In this blog post I spill the beans on my move to Affinity Studio.
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I was delighted to be a guest speaker on the ICAEW Student Insights podcast. It was a chance to talk about how people learn and what helps information stick. The conversation with Jag Dhaliwal and Ashley Boroda was very relaxed and we explored memory techniques to the communication habits that shape how we learn.
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For years I’ve relied on Adobe Creative Cloud without giving it much thought. It was a set of tools everyone used, so I used them too. Over time, the cost has kept rising and the value has felt smaller with every renewal. At some point, the price stopped matching the way I work, and I realised it was time to step back and rethink things.
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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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