Category: Learning & Teaching

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

03/03/2013

The Tutorials Archive

The Tutorials Archive covers the period 2007-2010. While teaching digital media, web design/development and professional skills/development between 2006-2011 I developed many tutorials for use in lectures, workshops and seminars. The archive shows approaches, skills, topics and levels taught. Degree programmes I taught on were: MSc Multimedia, MSc Digital Media, MSc Internet Consultancy, MSc Computer Animation, BSc Multimedia, BSc Technology and...