Category: Learning & Teaching

25/05/2018

Smart Learning & Open Access

I was pleased to take part in a webinar for the Smart Learning Institute at Normal University in Beijing, China. Due to time difference I suggested I do a video-cast and they were happy to oblige with that, so I created a presentation of slides with audio for them to use. The video is shared above. The presentation was part...

Learning & Teaching/PhD/Work

22/11/2016

Evaluating Smart City Learning

The early work into the thesis produced ideas around dialogism and communication evaluation methods to measure knowledge construction and identity forming. I’m now of an opinion that this is largely not a workable idea, but it did contribute to more understanding around how connectivist theoretical ideas are in some ways impractical and unworkable, but at the same time laudable as...

Learning & Teaching/PhD/Work

27/04/2016

PhD at University of Malta

I have taken up full time PhD at University of Malta, in the Faculty of Education. This is hugely exciting and my title is ‘Designing Smart City Learning’. I’ve reproduced a short excerpt from the proposal, plus included proposal viva slides and pdf of full proposal here. I’m developing an evaluation system based in theory (connectivism and networked learning pedagogy/epistemology)....

CV/Learning & Teaching/PhD

18/02/2015

Elearning Matrix New Site

I’ve launched the first prototype of the new Elearning Matrix, a greenfield full rebuild of the earlier xhtml eMatrix, developed from 2020-2013. The new version has moved on quite a bit and uses a number of more advanced web development techniques as well as being html5 and fully responsive. Based on ExpressionEngine 2.9.2, I’m now using the Content Elements add...

Learning & Teaching/Webdev/Work

27/01/2015

DigiClass

I’ve done some interesting work for a London based inner city charity developing a curriculum for age 12-16 yr after school classes, teaching digital skills that would lead on to accredited learning, using an approach of a ‘Level 0’ syllabus construction. The system of accreditation is based on what is provided by the British Computer Society, using a mixture of...

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Work

17/01/2015

Mediabank

Mediabank was a six month project working with several students on the undergrad and postgrad programmes for Digital Media at London Met. My brief was to work with a small team providing practical work experience by producing suitable marketing materials to help promote the courses. I’m a big believer in ‘authentic marketing’ so it was a real pleasure to be...

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Video/Work

20/06/2014

The eMatrix

The London Metropolitan University Ematrix is a complex category driven website built with Expression Engine. I’m using a wide variety of EE modules to achieve multiple ways for users to find content. Extensive use of Playa Relationships, Assets and Matrix, as well as Tagger and really useful additional functions like Shine PDF, RSS Parsonnel for multiple feeds, jQuery for more...

Learning & Teaching/Webdev/Work

11/06/2013

Changing Universities

A project concerning change management in the higher education sector. The brief was to provide an online space for private and publicly shared discussion groups for senior executives involved in management of change, for networking, shared problem solving, case studies etc. The site (first beta) uses Drupal Commons and has been fairly successful, particularly in recruiting members in this sector....

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Webdev/Work

Untitled 03/02/2023
Relax. Art installation. My place.#photography #GX9 #panasonicGX9 #panasonic #processing #photoshop #filters #abstract #abstractart #digitalart
Untitled 27/01/2023
Byron walking in the outer ring Nebula on the 14th moon of Jupiter in a steampunk chariot spaceship gliding amongst angels, beautiful surreal landscape, cosmic sky, detailed, realistic, (...) magical, detailed, alien plants, gloss, hyperrealism#stablediffusion #starryai #aiart #ai #openai
Untitled 27/01/2023
Data breach at Twitter. I was alerted through Nord VPN Dark Web alerts that there had been a possible date breach at Twitter. BE AWARE. I just received an email asking for feedback from support I requested on 20th of January, asking me to rate the support. I didn't ask for any support. This confirms […]
Untitled 26/01/2023
Well, she was an American girl Raised on promises After all it was a great big world With lots of places to run to... masterpiece detailed 4k futuristic cyberpunk city slum, pipes cables tubes computers billboards screens, retro motorcycles...#StableDiffusion v1.5 #aiart #nightcafe #genart #ai
Untitled 26/01/2023
The Ango Dance Hall. Time has stopped in the side streets and old warehouses of northern Malta.#Mediterannean #islandlife#photography #GX9 #panasonicGX9 #panasonic #processing

Untitled 01/02/2023
Visions of smart city as techno utopian VC fantasy have been dying a death in the literature for at least a decade, and Im happy to be a part of that, in a small way. From Jane Jacobs on city is people, memory and lives, not industry, machines and data. Data is generated as a […]
Untitled 30/01/2023
Another earthquake in Malta, the biggest yet of various tremors over past few weeks. The seismic activity monitor at university says its 5.3 but it felt much more and lasted about 8 seconds. All my computer monitors were shaking!#earthquake #malta #Mediterranean
Untitled 30/01/2023
Migrating wordpress to Grav. I tested wp2grav (7 years old) found on old forum posts for exporting WP to Grav. It still works fine, generating markdown with accurate front matter and retaining all urls, plus any in line images (not featured images). Just dump the posts in a new list page subfolder and they show […]
Untitled 28/01/2023
Progressing well with Grav. It's a really good experience to be back doing some dev and brushing up my (basic) git skills. I'm running this in Laragon, which is great, and updated to php8.1. Windows bash works nicely and everything is on a SanDisk USB drive. Theme is Striped, using Markdown Extra, set up a […]
Untitled 26/01/2023
Tomorrow is Friday and I have a gap in "allocated tasks" (aka slog) so I'm devoting the day to reacquainting myself with git (on windows to make it harder) and learn more about Grav. This will divert my attention from dangerous thoughts about jacking in work altogether and becoming a surf bum.#work #dropout #git #webdev […]