End of a journey - no more blogging at Scitable

For the last three years I have been blogging over at Nature Scitable about bioscience elearning and today, after 143 posts, I have decided to stop.

I have two main reasons for stopping:

1. The pressure of day-to-day life as an academic. To much to do, too little time to do it.
2. I have never really got on with the blogging platform at Scitable as I find it old, slow and clunky, and these days I like to blog in Markdown (as I am doing here).

It has been fun posting over at Scitable as it has given me the excuse, and therefore the time, to every so often step back from my day-to-day work and think about teaching and what I could, and should, do differently.

The problem now is I need to find an outlet for these 'teaching thoughts' and so there may be an increase in pedagogical material on this blog from now on...

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The other blog.... Blogging at Scitable

Today I started blogging over at Scitable (Nature Education). The new blog can be found here.

So, why two blogs?

Well, the two blogs have two different functions:

This Blog

The function of this blog is to directly serve my teaching.

I will continue to post material here that is connected with the courses I deliver, and it will also continue to host the 'science' tweets (tweets that link to papers and articles of interest) I post.

The Scitable Blog

The Scitable Blog will be used for posts connected to the use of technology in teaching and learning.

In the Scitable Blog I plan to write about how technology can be used to teach the biosciences, and how students can use technology to help with their studies. The Scitable Blog will contain posts that are (hopefully) of use to both lecturers and students.

If you would like to support my blogging efforts, then please feel free to buy me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/drnickm