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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you for inviting us! #lthechat Come and visit our Island. Contribute to our Quilt of Hope. Final call for registering via our Islands of Hope website, or you and others can access async ly via our padlet link we posted! Can't wait to see the joint outcome!

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#LTHEchat thanks for sailing with us today! Pls check our remaining Islands of Hope events on Fri & Quilt of Hope activity as well as building your Island of Hope via www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i... & our Island Map Padlet padlet.com/livunicie/is... - do add your pin & island if you visit

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A6 water is emerging a recurrent theme - wonder if as a community we could do some joint 'academic wintering'? [as Sandra Abegglen put it in her keynote today] - I have the image of a floatation tank in front of me at the moment! #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

so many uses of fire, love it! #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you can use pictures as well in your answer -whatever works

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A6 as reminder- the five elements are Wood (Growth, expansion, and spring) - Fire (Energy, passion, and summer) Earth (Stability, balance, and late summer) Metal (Structure, harvesting, and autumn) Water (Adaptability, rest, and winter) #LTHEchat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

thanks for persevering, Nathalie- you are typing really well given the one hand! There it is adaptation in real time!

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A5 constraints can be one of the biggest sources of creativity & learning (in multimodal learning) - gettings students to translate their ideas between modalities is exactly utilising this process #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

can you share some or one example of systems thinking [in what context eg?] ? #lthechat would love to hear more

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

also a fan (not just the cake but the arts based and participatory approaches!) #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

oh it sounds interesting- especially would love to hear more on new ways of priorotising projects or staff development in hard (£) times! #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sorry to hear that, Chris - and glad you had friends/colleagues around. And sadly, this is a common experience - which is also a reason why we have chosen Hope for our Islands theme this year #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A3 #lthechat - and conversely, if one feels that your values are less seen & heard, it can be a really demoralising phase to live through - though hopefully it's transitional, or as you say, pivoting may be needed!

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love this : "Be the solution to other's challenges (where possible)" #lthechat A3

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A3 going literal= a good declutter in work env can be healing: what's still important/what can go (digital & physical)? Although not good if your whole department has to evict from your floor due to a leaky roof! In worst case, hang on to one good tea mug or a small object for continuity? #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

would love to see some of these resources if shareable? A2 #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A2 yes this came up earlier at Sandra Abegglen's keynote of Stories of Hope, how new voices, new perspectives can re-energise our teaching - and student being one source of this energy #LTHEchat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A2 and our Islands community has hugely benefited from this! #LTHEchat - and previous years we also tried out and used SpatialChat which was a different way of interacting online- you learn so much from different affordances of different platforms A2 #ltheChat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I agree too- this is so valuable #LTHEchat when you can have a creative play with like-minded colleagues and re-energised by the collabroative ideas!

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A1 always good when you can combine business with pleasure [in the professional sense!], especially when it benefits colleagues #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@santanuvasant.bsky.social - they sound v important , especially in such challenging times, are there any new approaches you are planning to utilise? Or are the specific challenges new themselves? #LTHEchat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A1 #lthechat - Sue would love to hear more of the type of engagement you are planning?

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd love to hear your ideas! As someone interested in multimodal methods, I'd love to try our some hybrid creation with students producing collages of AI/human images to express their learning #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glad you can join us Nathalie- nice to have you back! #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

and we also have @itswatson.bsky.social with us from Islands here too!

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Welcome to this evening’s chat hosted by @tundeva.bsky.social and @vickidale.bsky.social on Islands of Hope Are your typing fingers ready? Have you got a drink ready? Are you ready? Let’s get started... #LTHEchat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi everyone, Tunde Varga-Atkins here from University of Liverpool (for another two days!). With our global committee including @vickidale.bsky.social, we have been hosting Islands of Innovation for five years, which is where the idea of Islands of Hope has come from for today.

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ten minutes to go until this evening’s #LTHEchat :) This evening we will be discussing Islands of Hope: Finding Hope in the Five Elements. Still time to read through the blogpost at lthechat.com/2026/09/02/l... before we get started tonight #LTHEchat @tundeva.bsky.social @vickidale.bsky.social

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LTHEChat 371: Islands of Hope: Finding Hope in the Five Elements

Welcome to a new term of #LTHEChat! Join us on Wednesday 9th September at 8:00pm (BST) with our guest contributor, Dr Tünde Varga-Atkins (@tundeva.bsky.social) for a fascinating and innovative Blue…

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We look forward to this week's #LTHEchat with my Islands committee partner @vickidale.bsky.social - on behalf of our organising committee: Rebecca Atkinson, Laura Blundell, Nathalie Broun, Peter Lin, Dr Charlotte Stevens, Dr Yiqun (Olivia) Sun, Dr Nathalie Tasler & David Watson #IslandsofHope

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A1 #LTHEchat yes, various professional identities - researcher, learning technologist and so on! @abbis.bsky.social

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A5 #LTHEChat yes, definitely- some were internal evaluations, some external research projects. Collaboration is the way to go to raise the importance of SOTL

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A4: #LTHEChat with the appearance of AI there is perhaps more of convergence between educational developers and digital education specialists?

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A3 #LTHEchat - yes PF/Fellowship -helps w giving it a framework and langauge. We have done some work a gd few yrs ago w colleagues on the identity of learning technologists, using metaphors which was higly enjoyable & productive

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A2 #LTHEchat mixed: in the core of your identity, it sort of doesn't matter as it matters to you (&you only); &then in other contexts where your own identity is at odds with, or goes unrecognised in, your role or institution, then it can matter a lot. Is it like quantum computing -can be both? :)

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A1 #LTHEchat - it's about the crowd or community you feel at home and yourself with

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Delighted! Looking forward to celebrating with fellow fellows! #ntf

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Listen to Ep42 #TreasureIslandPedagogies on postgrad research supervision, with distinguished guests: Doug Cleaver, Hala Mansour and Saneeya Qureshi on student agency, student-centred approaches, pedagogy of care and creating inclusive communities - tinyurl.com/yu8ej6w2 @livunicie.bsky.social

Screenshot from a conference call from a podcast recording picturing guests: Hala Mansour, Saneeya Qureshi, and Doug Cleaver with podcast host Tunde Varga-Atkins, and audio producer Chris Loxham

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A6 I used to love haikudeck for this but sadly no longer alive #lthechat I loved the serendipity of finding visual metaphors

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A5 the genre and style of the image, i.e. form and function, there are so many kinds, and you need to know what you are expecting as the resulting artefact: a diagram, a map, a photo, a drawing, a mind map, concept map, info graphic, poster etc? #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A4 or also it's possible to get students develop evaluative skills by reflecting on GenAI visual outputs, things that worked, things that didn't work... #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A4 at the moment the inverse direction is better and more fruitful: getting genAI to offer feedback on your visual artefact based on a set criteria. #lthechat

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Tundeva @tundeva.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A2 It's good at creating visual elements but less good on creating a grammar of the visual (the grammar that carries meaning as to how the elements hang together into a cohesive whole) #lthechat

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