Looking forward to a day of celebrating digital, collaborative learning at @uclan.ac.uk!

Waiting on my train down to London for what promises to be a fun staff conference at work! #teachers5oclockclub

Early morning at Kirkham and Wesham station ready to head to Durham's 23rd Blackboard User Conference! I'm looking forward to a couple of days focused on improving student's #personalisedlearning using #Blackboard tools to facilitate it. #durbbu #earlymorning #travel

How to identify brilliant failures. Is the vision there, is it inspiring, has it minimised risk, what approach have you taken - have you worked with others and taken previous info into account, and finally have you learned anything and shared it?
#Digifest25

We need to move away from the #costoffailure towards the #valueoffailure this is hard. The cost doesn't take any effort to deal with, finding the value takes effort. But it's so worth it! #failures #fail #reframe #Digifest25

Creativity can rapidly decline, and towards the end of your career you head towards terminal seriousness. We need to break out of the patterns that break and suppress our #creativity! #creativeHE #Digifest25 #edtech

If you don't bring people along then the following formula applies The formula NT+OO = EOO. New tech + old org = expensive old org. You need to bring people along for it to be worthwhile and that's the hard part! #pedtech #edtech #education #innovation #Digifest25

An image that shows it perfectly. It's not a straight path, instead you have a series of peaks and troughs. Particularly in the last mile! Getting those people onboard can be the biggest issue. #Digifest25 #projects #failure #success

I love this. A project plan is a set of lies that make others decide what we want them to decide. It's so true! It'll never end up the way you planned it, its definitely never a straight path! #Digifest25

We are not suckers, we do make failures, we're hard working people. Of course we'll have failures. We learn from them. You can't avoid them.

Mine was "Dye covered sink". Suffice it to say my wife is not happy the sink is no longer white but is slightly purple....oops.

#Digifest25

The largest digifest ever! 2667 registered delegates, 900 of us here in person and 1700 online! Great stuff @jisc.bsky.social ##Digifest25

Thank you #bandfc hair salon for tidying my hair up so I can have one of my trademark broght colours! It's like I have my brother coming along with me to Birmingham to see me get recognised as a @jisc.bsky.social #CommunityChampion. I'm sure he's looking down with pride. #digifest2025

On holiday and enjoying lots of board games with my daughter! #boardgames #kabutosumo #mlem #outfoxed #luckylanghals #family #fun #play

Sadly my #boardgame night ended up being cancelled this month as no one could make it through the bad weather and floods.

Oh well, at least I can enjoy playing some with my daughter!
#gamesnight #disappointed #fun

Is anyone else playing #mhnow? It's got a lot more interaction to it than Pokemon Go and I'm really enjoying it so far

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,004,900!