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ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 19h

Creative Bomb flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an online experience organised by Dave... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-njU

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 23h

Today’s TDC asks us to talk about creativity and openness. Here’s my response. https://nomadwarmachine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Recording-3.mp3 One thing I really appreciate about the Daily Create is that, because it is in the open, I have added motivation... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-njI

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 1d

Hello :) Today I am going to touch back into a topic that has been discussed many times on these updates – desirable difficulties.These are pedagogical techniques that can be applied across the curriculum and to independent study. Each technique brings a cost in terms... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-njy

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 2d

Cat-frog flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC asks us to find the least popular challenge and respond to it. I chose this one: Some of Salvador Dali’s surrealist paintings combined two or more kinds of... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-niM

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 2d

Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-niK

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 2d

Your daily create needs you flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license TDC5041... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ni1

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 3d

Glasgow Crematorium flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Mum in law’s funeral today, so just a quick cautionary poem: Those who do not behave Might end up here, or in a grave TDC5040... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ngU

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 4d

The title of the Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference 2026 is “Interdisciplinary Pathways: Engaging Learners and Creating Opportunities”. Organisers have issued a call for papers for this annual conference, to be held in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ngk

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 5d

303/365 Fuchsia flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license TDC5039... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ngf

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 5d

Tidying up desktop and found this deck created last year in a workshop with lecturing staff. Using tools they may not have encountered yet. In this case Manus a useful tool with some strengths over ChatGPT and Co-Pilot etc.Prompt was simple, to create an outline... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nfv

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 5d

302/365 Christmas Pudding flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Christmas is coming, the [vegetarian] goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny, then a ha’penny will... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nft

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t quite believe it’s almost been a week since the #altc25 conference. Lots of people have beaten me to it in sharing their reflections (thanks Phil and Joe) . There has been quite a lot of sharing and chatter on Linkedin too. Linkedin really does seem be the... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nfo

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license Roses are red Violets are blue But you, my dearest darlingest Daily Create Are multifaceted, multimedia and multidimensional And that’s why I LOVE YOU TDC5037... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ne6

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 6d

296/365 Fair Flora flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license When I was about eight years old our parents sold our family home and bought a plot of land that had once been part of an orchard. We had a static caravan which... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ne8

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 5d

Decompressing from some excellent days at the Association for Learning Technology's annual conference in Glasgow. Here are some quick reflections on what I picked up. Programme was great (as co-chair some bias in that) and I probably missed many other useful nuggets.... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ndb

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 8d

To The Editor,COLLEGE leaders are to be applauded for taking a tough stance against college lecturers who take part in another marking boycott ("Colleges agree plan to dock pay from staff who take part in marking boycott", The Herald, February 10). It's about time... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ncq

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! Last time I shared the research of Birnbaum and colleagues on spacing and interleaving. This paper helped to show that interleaving is not a side effect of the spacing effect, but is in fact due to a separate mechanism – the benefits of contrasting one item... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ncm

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 8d

A shattering fall From the greatest of heights Hard to tell, first of all What was broken. Nothing was visible on the outside Yet horrors within Left unspoken. Up became down And down became up As she struggled to swim To the surface. Sometimes she sensed The glow... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nbu

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 9d

TDC5035... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nbr

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 9d

Ben Lomond flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nbj

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 10d

CLMOOC flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license TDC5034... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nax

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 11d

#4life flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC asks to choose a word and use this word flood generator to make an image. Here’s mine – the TDC is #4life... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n9D

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 11d

Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs. All you need to do is create a canva and get a Public View Link, paste that into a post or page editor and the Canva is embedded. We have more details on the embeds blog Canva post. An Example:... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n8t

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 12d

Dunnock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Just one little dunnock Singing alone No sparrow companions All other birds gone Sitting high in the tree tops Hidden from sight Singing your heart out In the bright... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n7Z

ScotEduBlogs @scotedublogs.bsky.social · 7d

I am delighted that my team in LTW at University of Edinburgh have gained a Bronze Athena Swan Award. I bet we are the first learning technology department in a UK university to do so. We are certainly the first professional services department at Edinburgh to achieve... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ncE