My grandmother was there taking part in

That’s why I only ever cut chilies with a pair of scissors over kitchen paper so I don’t have to touch them. Kitchen scissors then go into the dishwasher and paper towel goes in the bin once Ive put the chilies in the stew.

Just a surface wound as Monty Python’s knights would say

What’s the most middle class accident you can have around the home? I have cut my nose while cleaning the bread maker and the lid fell on it. Can you beat that?

Feel free to use it, although it might upset some people’s sensibilities

Yes smashing thank you

The thing is, I don’t want the heavy commitment of something like a book, but writing the odd overview article, etc. turns out to be quite good fun

#LTHEChat but it’s difficult to take risks in the current environment of precarity and uncertainty

#lthechat A6 not top down like a shower or bottom up like a bidet but from all directions at once simultaneously like a Jacuzzi

Thank you Danielle! Having sworn blind that I’d finished writing about learning and teaching I’ve been doing a couple of things this week thoroughly enjoying it. It’s being part of the community that does it #LTHEChat

#lthechat evening all! It looks like a fascinating discussion tonight

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This is brilliant and poignant. Well done the Marsh family. I am so enjoying seeing your family growing up and you have such beautiful voices.

#lthechat Thanks for facilitating a great chat! Good night everyone

I used to call it management by cake. Sitting in uni cafes so people could talk to me and I was visible and approachable

But if you find you were wrong and the plan isn’t working be humble enough to acknowledge it and change

So few senior managers have training in this area. Decades ago I taught English for Secretaries in FE and learned a lot

But we never could. That’s why we developed sketchy handwriting

Absolutely but it must be genuine rather than performative

#lthechat A6 absolutely crucial is a sense of mutual trust ( which cannot be commanded and must be earned)

And having silly contractual limitations for Professional rather than academic staff is particularly fatuous

Now that is an ambitious plan; getting senior managers to work together to create shared priorities. ( I speak as a previous PVC)

That’s how it used to be when I started in HE

A5 #lthechat surely huge meetings and cc all emails are the biggest time wasters

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I used to do this a lot. I called them statement banks at least 40 years ago

Sounds great! I remember @kaysambell.bsky.social asking ChatGPT to write in the style of Sally Brown and @philrace.bsky.social and it was uncanny how much it sounded like our books

Thanks again, Sue

Yes, I absolutely love my public lending rights payment. Not the Getty millions, but it’s an assurance that people ask still reading my books.

Oh yes I can concur with that. essays have been dead for 20years

Fascinating point

Sounds like a plan, but maybe use it to draft the feedback but then to check it before using it in its raw form

Thanks Sue, better late than never! And although mechanisms are gonna be different authentic assessment is a perennial

#lthechat A6 it’s not a small change and it’s not a new change but the big thing we need to do in terms of AI learning& assessment is that we have to keep focusing on the personal. This means more interaction because heaven help us we don’t want to return to just unseen time constrained exams.

#lthechat A3 a bit late of the game but AI really has disrupted assessment and made a lot of the assumptions and actions we have had previously about authentic assessment difficult to maintain. This means a whole rethink how we are going to practice assessment.

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And isn’t it marvellous

Largely yes

Me too today

Only in the winter when people in our street don’t want to risk going out in the ice. I provide the dominoes a bit of cake and a drink drink. Cheap entertainment and it keeps the old brains working by the way at least one other woman comes.

@lthechat.bsky.social A6. If you’re going to consult, don’t sell yourself too cheap.Your day rate should be no less than 1/100 of your last salary because nobody wants to work more than 300 days a year & every day of consultancy takes a day prep and a day follow up/travel.

@lthechat.bsky.social A2 people always tell you from the institutional perspective that it’s not personal but it blooming well feels like like it

#lthechat sorry to be late to the party but I’ve been running an old gentleman‘s dominoes club as I do in the winter every other week. A5 keeping up momentum is really hard and it helps clarify what you really want and possibly more importantly, what you don’t want

I’ve been volunteering with little readers for 12+ years but today was my first ever encounter with a full on nose bleed. Quite alarming

This week we will feature @hopkinsdavid.bsky.social exploring Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next #LTHEchat

This is a great blog and I can echo many of the key points. It’s a chat not to be missed even if redundancy isn’t on your horizon

Sending love and positivity sue

This is definitely a chat I aim to participate in: I was made effectively redundant twice and I’ve given loads of people advice on getting through that period since

If you are having a difficult day, go out and buy a 99p bunch of daffodils

#lthechat A6 we’ve got to make technology the servant rather than the master of learning enhancement like @markglynn.bsky.social does