If you are a follower of my blog (well, the collection of random blog posts I’ve written), you’ll know that almost exactly a year ago, I moved from a position of IT Manager in a School to my post in Information Services as the Technology Enhanced Learning Team manager.  It’s …

I spent a good part of last week at Blackboard’s Teaching & Learning Conference in Newcastle this week with some of my excellent Edinburgh colleagues plus many excellent colleagues from around Europe – some of whom I knew virtually and met in real-life, for the first time, at the conference. …

You may know that we are moving Learn to the cloud in the summer. This is a good thing – it will mean we can do more frequent updates to the application with less downtime. At the moment, we are restricted to a single update of the application over the …

We ran our ‘Get Blogging’ event yesterday during the Festival of Creative Learning Week.  It was a really fun event and we packed loads in. We’ve got a proper blog post coming about the event soon.  In the meantime, I promised the attendees I’d share our PowerPoint slides with them …

To start with some apologies, I’ve been writing this blog post for about 3 months.   This is not how I’d recommend you blog! So, I was thinking about our service wearing my old School hat.  That is, the perspective I would have had in my previous job as the School …

I joined IS three months ago, and have been lucky enough to join the Technology Enhanced Learning team, part of DLAM (Digital Learning Applications & Media) team, which sits in the LTW (Learning, Teaching and Web) Directorate.  When I arrived, the team were in the midst of the development of …