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After exporting my blog pages and importing them to Hugo, I now have a temporary version of my blog on GitHub pages at cpjobling.github.io/blog.cpjobling.net. It automatically updates when I commit and push to GitHub from my local git repository. The story of the conversion is
Hugo is a static web generator written in Go. I’m thinking of exporting this WordPress site to Hugo so that all the posts, pages and assets are text, easily version controlled and ready for writing as I transition from academia to private life. I’ll keep notes on the
Yesterday, I received my copy of Martin Weller's book 25 Years of Ed Tech. Inspired by Chapter 2 The Web (1995), I travelled back in time to my own first attempt to teach online. I visited the Way Back Machine (web.archive.org) to discover that the first
Yesterday was the 12th Annual conference of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT) which, due to circumstances, had to be held on line. I attended but didn't present but as usual I came away with a head full of ideas and links to follow up on.
News of several useful Advance HE guides arrived in my email inbox today curtesy of Stuart Norton of the Learning and Teaching Network of Advance HE Connect. * Flexible learning comes of age. * Transforming Assessment in Higher Education – if not now…? * Assessment: the Game. * Student-staff partnership comes of age. * Launch of
"Shall we Zoom?" ... the new day to day.
Day 36 of the first 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown I'm a bit envious of the Covid-19 journals of my friends and colleagues Chrissi Nerantzi and Sheila MacNeill so today I thought I'd try an experiment and post my Crispy Journal entry for 28th April 2020 here in
In this time when personal contact with our students is so important I have to comment:
"how do you think Swansea academics in 1920 would have related to Twitter?"
On this first day of the winter break, I will be reading "In at the Deep End", a new resource from the Learning and Technology Academy at Heriot-Watt University. Our thanks to friend and advocate of lecturers and author of the original Lecturer's Toolkit, Phil Race:
I am old enough to remember the Sun newspaper's 1992 splash "If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights" published on polling day for the 1992 General election. They repeated the same trick, and the same headline, with