September 29, 2023

Day: 12 September 2017

Useful

Giving the draft posts a new home ….

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

A while back I blogged about all the little homeless blog posts that I had languishing in my drafts box …. I’ve decided to set them free and unleash them … I was inspired to do this by my lovely colleague Chris Jobling who took the time to comment on my blog and then published his own list of drafts that will never get written and also this article by sarkemedia about Drafty Blogs ! The piece of advice that they give on the sarkemedia.com site is that …   if a draft doesn’t become a post within 90 days it must be deleted If an idea doesn’t have a rough headline it cannot be a draft If an idea isn’t bursting to get onto the page, it’s not ready and shouldn’t be a draft.   I’m not quite sure that this approach will work for me but I hope that my …

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Useful

To Blog or not to Blog …

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

Doug Belshaw has recently started a new series of blog posts about writing blog posts. I have read the first one so far, and had a play with one of the tools that he mentions, Hemingway Editor which I love ! For someone like me that tends to use far too many words when writing, this is going to be helpful. I would recommend that you check it out ! For any idea of how it works, see below for my first draft of the above paragraph ! It also gives you hints that you can click on which told me to omit some words !

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Badges / Conferences / Useful

Deb’s Been Making Badges …

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

We have used Open Digital Badges for the #SUSALT17 Reaching for Teaching Excellence Learning and Teaching Conference again this year. We have some new designs and a new issuing platform. I did some research in relation to the badges that we used last year and although people liked them, one of the key things that people wanted was a badge image that more accurately reflected what they got it for in the first place. So instead of having just an icon (which is what we had last year), I thought we would go for an image that people were already familiar with and then use the ribbon text to indicate specific badge types. We used this fab image of the microphone from Pixabay ( as found by Mandy ! ) for the branding of our conference ( its CC0 Public Domain by https://pixabay.com/en/users/Fotocitizen-397314/) so it seemed logical to go with that …

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Conferences / Useful

My Open Story for #101openstories

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

Hello I’m Debbie Baff .. (@debbaff) and this is my Open Story for #101openstories… to celebrate the year of open sorry it might be a bit of a waffle and possibly too late to make the cut … Inspired by the fabulous #101openstories contribution from the lovely Sheila MacNeill and in response to an encouraging prompt from Chrissi Nerantzi🙂 Open by example … Well if I’m honest I guess my adventure with ‘open’ probably started when I was little and watching my dad do his studying with the Open University. He was one of the first cohorts back in the seventies and I remember being fascinated with the TV and radio programmes and multitude of books and papers , so I consider myself pretty much as having grown up with the OU and their whole philosophy of being ‘open to people, places, methods and ideas’ just really appealed to me and so this …

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