Leading Virtual Teams with Dr Maren Deepwell – Details, episodes & analysis

Join me for a conversation with special guest Jim Groom as we talk about being a robot in a co-working space, teaching Slack to make jokes and building a blog studio in Trento, Italy! 

If you, like me, are already a life-long fan of Jim's work, you are in for a special treat, and if you are just discovering the wonderful world of the bava, this is a perfect introduction. 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Jim's blog bavatuesdays
• ds106 Digital Storytelling
• Reclaim Hosting

Jim Groom, formerly Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, has been working towards the idea of Domain of One‘s Own as far back as 2008 and has been dreaming of this opportunity for years. In the Spring of 2011 he opened up a digital storytelling course called “ds106” for anyone to take openly online and hundreds of people participated and continue to give back to that community. In Spring of 2013 he joined a group of hackers and thinkers at MIT to think about how an online framework could allow people to seamlessly syndicate the work they do across the web in a space of their own both on an academic and personal level. In Fall of 2015 he went full time with Reclaim Hosting and has not looked back since. #4life⁠

This interview is going to feature in ⁠⁠my upcoming book⁠⁠. Get in touch with me if you'd like to join us for an episode and contribute to the book.

This month I am excited to join my former home institution for a lunchtime CPD session! I was really glad to be invited back and looking forward to working with the community of learning technology professionals for this free event.

During International Week of Happiness at Work, this webinar offers a session specifically designed for Learning Technologists looking to increase wellbeing at work. We’ll explore how increased use of digital technologies for communication and collaboration, alongside learning, teaching and assessment, impacts on our physical and mental wellbeing.

If issues such as tired eyes from long hours spent in front of screens, to digital overwhelm and lack of movement during days of meetings sound familiar to you, then this session will offer practical approaches to adopt healthier working habits for hybrid teams.

Using practical tools and interactive activities the session will support you in reflecting on your current practice and identifying what actions to take next in your wellbeing journey for the new academic year.

This workshop is a follow up to my first book, Leading Virtual Teams, which was published by ALT in 2022. Work is now underway in a second Open Access book, with a focus on long term hybrid working, how it impacts our senses and the relationship between human beings and technology, in the context of the radical shifts in the balance of power in the workplace (as in the classroom) with the advent of AI and surveillance technologies. This new book won’t be a solo project, but a wider collaboration with case studies and interviews with leaders and experts. If you are interested in contributing, get in touch. 

• When: 25 Sep 2024 from 12:30 PM to  1:30 PM
• Where: Online
• Price: Free
• Register: Via the ALT Website

Kicking of a series of interviews with special guests is Martin Weller. On this episode we are talking about work transitions and our desire for a kind of 'digital removals' service that helps you move your digital identity and estate when you are going through big transitions at work or in life.

Mentioned in this episode:

• new book project Martin and I are working on
• Martin's blog post about moving work

Get in touch with me if you'd like to join us for an episode and interview for the book.

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This month I am taking a proper break from work for the first time since I started working on a self-employed basis full-time. I love running my own micro-business, but when it comes to taking holidays it’s not yet working for me. I find myself fretting about work and checking emails or committing to things because of my clients’ schedules and as a result taking a complete break from work hasn’t happened so far. Now that a long-awaited break is upon me, I want to finally get that complete break and I am preparing for two weeks without work, two weeks filled with the joy of not working. In this episode I share practical tips for winding down from work and how it worked out for me.

Read the episode blog post.

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This past academic year I have worked on a number of different projects all connected by the theme digital wellbeing. This episode brings these different strands of work together and offers some key take aways.

Mentioned in this episode: A year of teaching Digital Wellbeing.

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This episodes provides a summery of a short talk about podcasting I gave at the University of Oxford. The talk is called 5 ways to get started ​ with podcasting, and explores 5 ways to develop your own professional practice in podcasting and explore ways of connecting with audiences beyond social media.​

Mentioned in this episode

• Short talk about podcasting

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In this episode I recap some of my adventures in May, and... announce a new book project!

Mentioned in this episode

• New book
• Leadership talk at WiAL

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In this series I explore what happens to our senses when we work in a hybrid or fully remote setting for long periods. How does our embodied experience of work change as we spend more time in front of screens, alone in our studies or on kitchen chairs? And also, how does our perception of work shift as our senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing adjust to hybrid working?

The short course in digital wellbeing I run for the University of Oxford explores some of these issues and it’s helped me appreciate even more how important these aspects of hybrid and remote working really are. In the course we only have limited time to dive into each of these, so this series of blog posts builds on some of my thinking from the course design, and expands these further. If you’re new to this series, you might find it helpful to first read Part 1 focused on our sense of sight, Zoom fatigue and healthy habits for stepping away from our screens.

The episode blog post has further information and a guide to create a healthy habit: daily quiet time.

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‘Digital Skills for Emerging Leaders’ is a new micro-credential course from the Digital Learning Institute that I am working on together with the amazing Lynne Taylerson. It’s a super project to be involved in, and it’s extra special for me as I get a change to collaborate with Lynne outside of our other favourite project: AmplifyFE.

In this episode and the accompanying blog post I share a glimpse behind the scenes of this new project.

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When I first started coach training, I set myself the goal to offer walking sessions for my clients. My thinking is that pretty much all of my favourite coaching and mentoring conversations happened when walking, either outdoors or pacing up and down in my office.

In this episode I share more about this new offering and you can also learn more in the episode blog post.

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