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Martin Nutbeem

@martinnutbeem.bsky.social

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Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own. Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my! Video games on easy mode. Eclectic music tastes. He/Him, cishet, jaded. Punch up, not down. Bigots begone.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1m

Such a great poem! Zephaniah is sadly missed.

Americans with thoughts about British food, please take note this is not about food.

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Magsferatu @magnumificent.bsky.social · 8m

Polanski referenced BZ's poem 'The British'. Superb.

"The British"

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 11m

It's a great day. He'll be fummin.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 14m

But this isn't that. It's listening to a soulless NPC of your teacher with no way to talk back to them bar using a text box or talking to said soulless NPC.

I HATE IT. As a learning technologist I hate it. As a parent I hate it.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 14m

I hate it. There's some pretty decent research showing that video feedback and coaching can tap into the discursive elements that make teaching effective, and that simple quick and easy videos work in that context.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 21m

All the boys and girls now!

Memories of Music lessons flooding back!

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 35m

Fair play to the Portland Frogs. Fair play.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 43m

I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 44m

Raving really was a gateway to Trojan and Studio One boxsets though.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 44m

Yeah, this. Reggae and Ska was in the charts and I liked it. Later I went raving and heard samples in techno and jungle and started to track source songs down in record stores.

Also, Bristol has a large Caribbean community and we'd hear stuff when out drinking and clubbing and pick stuff up.

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1h

Over the years, something I almost always get asked in interviews is how I, a white guy, got into reggae 🤷‍♀️

I think they're expecting some kind of origin story, and my discovery of these "exotic" sounds, but the truth is much more mundane. Reggae was pop music in the 70s and 80s

Scott Clifford @ilovemyrecords.bsky.social · 1h

I grew up as a white kid in South Wales in the 70s & 80s… on one hand, it’s a bit odd that I ended up being completely obsessed with reggae/dub/ska… on the other hand, you see old clips like this and it makes perfect sense…

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 59m

The Pony, The Dray Horse and the Holy Shetland. Of course.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1h

I'm assuming it's a temporary step 😬

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1h

So... Did Jesus also have a horse and if so does this mean God and the Holy Spirit have horses? Would make for a great Friday Be Posting Equines post.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yeah, that's the long term goal for sure.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 1h

What a staircase!

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

Right!?! The rush to bake AI into ALL THE THINGS comes at such a reduction in best practice and digital safety. It's wild!

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

YES! Pathetic! I saw this up at Kingswood recently and it was just embarrassing.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yeah, this is the stuff! This is the STUFF ❤️

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2h

Wonderful wintry Jill McDonald Puffin Post cover, delightful bit of cartoon colour for a gloomy grey day

Cover of a 1970s puffin post magazine with a colourful cartoon illustration of puffins wearing cosy winter woolens, hats & scarves& jumpers, doing winter activities all over a giant snow puffin with a pipe in their beak, some puffins mountaineering over its head, others having a snowball fight on its belly and in the foreground some ice skating while another warms its wings over a brazier.
In the background, snow blizzards through a silvery grey sky and the title Puffin Post appears in the top right corner, hand lettered inside white puffs of cloud

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

Arguably cats are better customers than humans in many ways. Ok, they usually choose violence. But at least they're clean and can be stroked for stress relief.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2h

Either it's a video of you saying stuff you didn't say, which is violently problematic, or it's a video of you saying stuff you did say, in which case what was the purpose of the AI bit?

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 5h

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly this! Did you watch the example video, it was quite realistic but at points drifted into NPC. But crucially, it wasn't long, didn't come across as authentic and really could have been done as a quick video. Wrong on many levels.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

I think about the sheer volume of stuff we had to iron out just to record lectures, in terms of Lecturers IP and how recordings could be used, who owned it etc.

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

I'd question who owns the rights to the avatar. If the company gets bought out (highly likely) will that avatar be safe from exploitation. It's a massive but quite likely issue.

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