ALT, Antiracism, Finding my voice

My 6-month Co-chair review & looking into the future of ARLT SIG

It has now been six months since I am Co-Chair of the Antiracism & Learning Technologies SIG under ALT. It is high time that I review what I have achieved personally and also as part of the committee. This sums up, to the best of my knowledge, what the group, later SIG, has been up… Continue reading My 6-month Co-chair review & looking into the future of ARLT SIG

Higher Education

An intersectional approach to learning technology – answering key questions with openness

I am writing this blog as a personal contribution to an upcoming webinar session on An intersectional approach to learning technology in a few days' time (event details and registration available at https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=684). This is a thinking loud blog with personal thoughts based on disruptive antiracism measures. I am addressing here a few questions that… Continue reading An intersectional approach to learning technology – answering key questions with openness

Conferences, Good practices, HigherEd

Reflections & contributions CIE Islands of Innovation 2022

It has been my first Islands of Innovation participation and I got assigned to Group 18, with Island Guide Tunde Varga Atkins. I include in this blog my contributions to the event and share further reflections that participants might find useful. Committment to Reflective Practices & Disruptive Practices The first activity was quite provocative and… Continue reading Reflections & contributions CIE Islands of Innovation 2022

Higher Education

Changing mindsets to reduce discrimination at work – ft. Dominic Pates

Update: video with full captioning finally added. Today is the World Day for Safety & Health at Work, the day where there will be talks about physical and psychological safety and health, most likely a session that will take place during lunchtime or at five pm, or let's make that 6pm. And the remaining days,… Continue reading Changing mindsets to reduce discrimination at work – ft. Dominic Pates

#creativeHE, Being visible, Discrimination, HigherEd, Inclusivity, Poems

Recording of my creativeHe inaugural Open Mic

An event organised under creativeHE by PipMcDonald & Tom Burns. I am really grateful for the opportunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7tdjBgAP0 A recording of the full event, with other participants, is available too. https://youtu.be/2z7Vezcph20

Higher Education

How I am using my Open Badges – contributing to work by Deb Baff & Teresa MacKinnon

This is my contribution to the "Open Badges Experiences" - piece of work by Deb Baff and Teresa MacKinnon https://padlet.com/Debbaff/myopenbadges https://padlet.com/Debbaff/myopenbadges I have really got mixed feelings about Open Badges. My first experence of Open Badges has been at UCEM, where they were issued to staff for the annual conference and later I used it… Continue reading How I am using my Open Badges – contributing to work by Deb Baff & Teresa MacKinnon

#creativeHE, ALT, Conferences, HigherEd, OER, Projects

Contributing to OER22 serendipity – true stories series by CogDog

When I contributed to the OER22 blog series, Alan Levine invited me to join his true stories series. (https://stories.cogdogblog.com/category/collections/oer22/ and https://stories.cogdogblog.com/category/serendipity/) So here is my recorded contribution to his little project and the story behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvodr2ejjMg My current open project is an idea that came all from the serendipity of an email from a mailing… Continue reading Contributing to OER22 serendipity – true stories series by CogDog

#creativeHE, Accessibility, Antiracism, Being visible, Disability, Discrimination, HigherEd, Inclusivity, Poems

Celebrating World Creativity & Innovation with #creativeHE

What I have been up to since I started the first draft of my first poem? Well, 'I Noticed' evolved into something more like Eye Noticed. Recently, I have been trying to find some creative ways of tackling racism within UK HE and Eye Noticed was inspired from personal experience as a victim of continuous… Continue reading Celebrating World Creativity & Innovation with #creativeHE

Development & Training, Discrimination, Good practices, HigherEd, Leadership

My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022

Recently, Advance HE invited ALT Assembly members for a UK Professional Standards Framework (2011) Review Consultation, I registered to attend, mainly because I have been quite critical of some sections of the PSF. This blog sums up some of my suggestions for improvement, these were made during the meeting and also on a Padlet (https://padlet.com/juliebc18/psfconsult),… Continue reading My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022