Beccy Dresden

@dresdeb.bsky.social

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Lead Learning Designer at University of the Built Environment | online learning consultant (UK higher ed). AI agnostic. Milton Keynes dweller - and defender! Aspiring artist, lapsed linguist, compulsive editor. Corvid obsessed. Dogs not cats.

Photo of a cream coloured bell tent pitched in front of a woodland, with the trees casting interesting shadows on the sunlit grass in the foreground
A screenshot from an email promoting Marks & Spencer food, showing three types of hot cross bun: Granny Smith Apple, Extremely Chocolatey, and Extremely Cheesy.
A video of 4 long-tailed tits eating suet balls inside a squirrel-proof bird feeder hanging from a metal post. In the background is a fence partially covered in ivy.
Wordle Bot's solving process for today's Wordle puzzle, showing that I reached the solution in 2 steps but the Bot took 6 steps.
A gif of actor Christopher Walken dancing in the video of Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice.
A photo of 3 long-tailed tits on a feeder in a snowy garden. One of them is missing its tail.
A selection of Cadbury Christmas-themed chocolate on display in my local Sainsbury's supermarket
Comparison between my solution to today's Wordle and the Wordle Bot's solution, showing that it took me 2 steps and the Bot 4.
Slide showing the proposed characteristics of 30 for-credit University of London microcredentials at level 7 adapted to a new lifelong learning format: • Start any time (register, pay, start) • No application form • Advisory entry requirements • Study at your own pace • Al tutor: no human online tutors • A named student progress advisor throughout • Take the assessment when you are ready • Assessment: practical, authentic, transparent • Unlimited re-sits • A single academic delivery model and set of regs • Employability embedded in curriculum • Automated feedback and formative assessment points • Uses our in-house CAFÉ learning design model • Digital badges on completion (and credit) • Provisional marks within 2 weeks, rolling exam boards • Affordable, with ability to geo-price Stop at 1 module, or accumulate credit over time into a named academic award, an award in 'interdiscipinary studies', or use it to transfer into a full degree.
Results from the IDRlabs.com Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test showing that I am 32.7% Goth, 46.4% Nerd, placing me in the True Nerd category.
Photo illustrating how to test whether the pavement is too hot for your dog's paws - the five-second rule. Place the back of your hand on the pavement. If you cannot hold it for five seconds, it's too hot to walk your dog.
Bar chart showing temperature change in Milton Keynes (an English city approximately 60 miles north of London) from 1850 to 2024. From left to right, most of the chart comprises blue bars extending down from the horizontal axis, but the last quarter of the chart (on the right) shows a dramatic swing to mainly red bars extending upwards.
Average of my last 12 Wordle Bot scores from the past 2 weeks, showing that I have “beaten” it 3 times in recent Wordles, solving in fewer steps, and tied with it 8 times.
A close-up of part of the contents of the Lego set pictured in the previous post, a polystyrene compartment full of mini-figs, including the knights from the castle and a variety of spacemen.
Lego set #910, "Advanced Basic Set", a tattered box with images of a house, a plane, a truck, etc., constructed from mainly red and blue bricks.
Lego set 375, a castle constructed from yellow bricks, with mini-figs knights armed with axes, swords, lances and shields, and several horses
A cluster of apricot coloured bearded iris blooms, which we think are Edward of Windsor variety.
A plantable conference badge made from surplus cotton from the textile industry, with tomato seeds inside.
A screenshot of Paul Iske's Digifest25 keynote, showing the formula NT+OO=EOO, which means new technology plus old organisation equals expensive old organisation
A purple primula denticulata partially in flower, surrounded by ivy and heuchera leaves as well as other twigs and foliage.
Photo of a female sparrowhawk's head and shoulders, framed by branches.
A collage of 25 portrait drawings (done by me), in a variety of media and styles, from various Sktchy #30Faces30Days challenges over the last 5 years.
A Windows laptop screen showing the text: "Working on updates 4% Please keep your computer on. Your computer may restart a few times."
A photo of a garden at a UK school that contains a Marbles Court (an area for playing marbles) with a tiled area in the centre in the shape of a Fibonacci spiral, surrounded by benches, raised beds and trees.
Mural by Ilya Viryachev symbolising the history of Vancouver, concentrating primarily on its surroundings between 1855-1955. It represents various significant processes to reveal how Vancouver’s current model of tolerance and multiculturalism was forged through histories of violence, racism and inequality. (text adapted from https://streetartcities.com/markers/3922)
Photograph (a composite/stacked image) of an illuminated bell tent pitched in front of a small woodland, with the top half of the shot dominated by the night sky, showing the Milky Way.
A chimney full of burning logs, with a BBQ behind it, at a woodland campsite.
A photograph from the Island Mere hide at RSPB Minsmere. Reed bed in the foreground, with 4 cormorants on a perch in open water behind that, and blue sky with white fluffy clouds in the background.
A bell tent pitched at the edge of a woodland campsite.
A bowl full of purple French beans that have been picked later than ideal so are rather large, with two small tomatoes on top
Infographic on the anatomy of an empowered educator, which highlights the 6 roles they play: teacher; curator; technologist; collaborator; experimenter; and scholar.
A presentation slide highlighting the inconsistent use of the terms hybrid, hyflex and blended in higher education, and its impact on workload and teaching quality.
View of railway tracks - and a grey, cloudy sky - from a round window at the train station
Photo of a cardoon - also known as an artichoke thistle. It has a bright purple flower head on top of a silvery green globe covered in triangular leaves
Pixies Doolittle album cover
A photo of sugar snap pea seedlings planted in a raised bed, with a mesh cover protecting them.