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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

Journeys flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Along a busy road cars whizz past, their engines buzzing in my ears The water moves slowly, lapping over small rocks Birds flit, silently, through the trees Dogs bark,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n6K

Moon Haiku flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Moonlight over trees Guiding me as I wander Through fragrant meadows... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n6A

Hello!In a couple of recent posts I explored research that has investigated the combination of two evidence-based learning techniques: retrieval practice, and generative learning (find the posts here and here). I mentioned in passing that even when pedagogical... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n43

Autumn Haiku flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license As the days draw in And the leaves begin to drop Autumn colours shine TDC5028... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n6C

Croe Water flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n3d

 I am co-chairing ALTC25. Conference for UK Association for Learning Technology. I promised a Glasgow post on other attractions. There are loads of ways you can find out what is on in Glasgow while you are about for the ALTC Conference. But I thought I'd add my own... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n38

If you dig back in this blog you will see that one way or another I have been blogging since the turn of the century. It's never without its challenges but for me it is a key part of open practice. It is a positive way of moving things forward. There was a sudden... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n3a

The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds. Thanks to all the people who reported it. If you changed your Resize larger images to setting to zero as a workaround please reset it to... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mZg

This is a vpython simulation graphing the potential and kinetic energies of a ball released from a height.What do you notice about the potential energy and kinetic energy as the ball falls? Find the simulation here.... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mYN

I was tagged by Mags Amond for tagging you next for a #TeachMeet20 looking back / looking forward post @johnjohnston TeachMeet, a meet up for teachers, self organised and designed to keep it grassroots. The Wikipedia page is not too far from the mark. Started 20 years... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n2W

Hello :)I hope you are well, and that the heading of this newsletter didn’t cause too much alarm! I am going to discuss an important phenomenon called retrieval-induced forgetting. It’s useful to know about, but rather than being a problem, it makes retrieval... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mX8

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

Amongst all the awfulness Amongst all the bad news Amongst all the finger-wagging and Narrow-minded “helpfulness”  On the platforms which are meant to be  Social and friendly…. ….we sometimes need to look to strangers  For signs that the world is full of... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mVm

It’s been a year since you died, mum. I still miss you, so much more than I realised I would. Happy memories, so many memories. Now time has peeled away the layers I notice how so much that I do was taught by you. Every day there is something to remind me of you.... https://wp.me/s3Wm7X-warning

After a few years of laying fairly fallow I’ve got a bit of time to work on ScotEduBlogs. The site had chuntered on mostly under its own steam for a while. Mostly auto-updating, all I need to do was to keep the site & domain up and running. ScotEduBlogs is a site that... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n2Y

Hi all :)This is rather a short update, as I have been rather occupied with some family matters, but I wanted to let you know about a couple of upcoming events that I have organised. One is a professional learning session for teachers and other educators, running on... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mO1

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

The myth that getting to university is the apogee of school is crumbling. Across the Atlantic, Americans are realizing that their country won't be made great again by a surfeit of university students. A young man I spoke to recently—successful, full-time employed, and... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mL6

Nine months of photos, one very day. Sometimes uploaded on the day, sometimes later, but I make sure I take at least one photo a day. Now for the next month …... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mL3

Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference. The main features of WordPress 6.8 are covered in WordPress 6.8 – WordPress.org WordPress 6.8 packs a wide range of performance fixes... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mJQ

 School Leadership is more than timetabling and discipline.School leaders can set the climate for learning and teaching. Where done well, increasing personalisation and choice for learners (learningpathways) and teachers (autonomy) allows for both staff and students... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mIJ

Leaders, Teachers, let me ask you some questions...When did you last admit that you had made a mistake?When did you last own a failure and discuss it with the people most affected? When did you allow someone to show you that you had got it wrong, then stop and change... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mIL

This issue has been fixed with a release on Monday 13 October. PDFs now upload as expected. An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mIx

Hello!Today’s post follows on from last week’s, in which I discussed research by Obergassel et al. (2025) on retrieval practice and generative learning.Today I’d like to flag up a couple of other interesting issues arising from the paper, as well as considering... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mJ6

I have spent the last few years caring for my mother who, back in the day, was a bit of a lifelong learning radical herself. You can read about her work on this blog Oh WOW! Women at Work in the 1980s – Diverse Collections  which may give some insights into what has... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-ncG

265/365 Pansy flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mGB

In 2024 the IDL Network posted two articles about Yrityskylä (literally “business village”), an innovative learning module in the Finnish curriculum that transcends disciplinary boundaries, in which level 6 and level 9 pupils learn about working life – business,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mHS

Hi there! I hope you enjoyed my recent post on motivation. Today, back to some more ‘bread and butter’ issues, specifically:Retrieval practice: actively recalling information from memory, e.g. via quizzes or teacher questioning.Generative learning: tasks that... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mJ8

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

Tonight I swam alone At first fearful What if What if What if And then, open to the sounds and scents Like never before Fully immersed In the cool waters In my self. After a while I thought of each friend Who might have been there  And hoped that their reason for... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mE2

High Places Phenomenon (HPP), or more commonly, "l'appel du vide," (the call of the void) is the sudden, inexplicable urge to jump from a high place, even when you have no intention of harming yourself. I've never heard that call: never felt that urge. But my wife has.... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mDI

Some people don’t believe in time travel, but I think I have a pretty convincing argument for it. Here it is. There are some pieces of music (actually, there are many) that instantly transport me back in time and space. The Doctor Who theme tune (Jon Pertwee of... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-mDb