November 29, 2023

Category: Useful

Blog / PhD / Useful

Cool stuff I have found this week

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Holly Jane Holly Jane is a YouTube Blogger and PhD Student. I’ve only just come across her but her youtube channel is really great. She is really funny and authentic … and has also started doing a “study with me sessions” . These are basically where Holly Jane studies in 50 min blocks with a 10 min tea break and various people join in and do the same. People interact via YouTube chat. It’s a great motivator and given my particular research interest, all this stuff is sooo good! Anyhow I managed to catch one or two of these in the week and they were both great. I did one at lunchtime and then one after work yesterday, which then motivated me to keep going so it’s gotta be a good thing yes? Anyhow Holly Jane can be found here .. I think she’s great. She also has an Instagram …

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PhD / Useful

The Power of the PLN

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The week before last I had a brilliant catch up with some of my wonderful PLN buddies that I speak to on a regular basis. I feel that calling them PLN buddies doesn’t really do it justice as I would now count many of these people as great friends of mine. My little PLN Buddy group has absolutely been the guiding light for me this year especially during the dark days of COVID. Here we are wearing our finest bitmoji outfits … I feel that we all support each other so well and this has become so important to me especially over the last few months. I get so much emotional support through my PLN and it is this very thing that I hope to investigate for my research, as I am convinced I am not alone in experiencing this. It was my turn to ride the emotional coaster with …

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Useful / Workshop Delivery

Flying the Flag for Flipgrid

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

I was delighted to be invited to give an online workshop for University of Strathclyde and their #StathTechEd staff development group last week on an Introduction to using FLIPGRID in HE. As I didn’t know who would be coming I wasn’t quite sure how to pitch it so I did like a million slides on the basis that people would be able to go back to the slide deck if they needed to. I incorporated some slides from Flipgrid who make their decks available for presentation and added some of my own in. I left the format deliberately quite loose so that I could adapt to what the participants wanted. I showed the slide deck to give them an introduction and shared some real life examples of where I have used Flipgrid before. We even had one or two people keen to try out Flipgrid then and there which was …

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Conferences / Useful

What a difference a year makes …

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff0

It’s been a funny old week … I’ve been on annual leave this week, my aim was to spend some time with the kids before they go back to school next week and recharge my batteries following our superb online summer summit #altcSummit last week … unfortunately having broken a couple of teeth during lockdown has meant that I have had a fair bit of dental misery this week so have been pretty much nursing my wounds (literally) and feeling sorry for myself most of the week rather than actually recharging … hey ho … that’s the way the cookie crumbles … Anyhow, being on leave meant that I missed the actual one year anniversary of my move to ALT on 1st September 2019 last year but I thought it would be interesting (to say the least) to reflect back over the last 12months. September 2019 I left my old …

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Useful

Sketchnotes

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I’m absolutely rubbish at keeping track of my sketchnotes, I’ve tried putting them on Flickr and Pinterest but I’m really not very good at updating either of those. So seeing that I use PADLET really quite a lot I thought I would I have a go at putting them there – it seemed to work for some other stuff that I have curated … lets see .. in the spirit of openness I have put them all on there – warts n’ all right from the early days so there are some not very good ones and some that I really like … please be kind …

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Journaling / Writing Aspirations …

Debbie Baffby Debbie Baff4

I must try and get into the habit of writing regularly and I am thinking that journaling might be the way to go … There are two main reasons for this: a) as a PhD candidate it is really kind of a good idea to practice ! Clearly my blog is a different sort of writing but I figured any attempt at regular writing just might help and b) I don’t think I am particularly good at being reflective and by writing a regular journal might help with that and of course it will probably be good for me in other ways ( eg mental health and well being etc ) I really like the idea of journaling … I used to keep a journal as a kid back in the prehistoric days before t’internet, computers and my probably poor attempts at adulting … but that was really only for …

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