Penworks.Net

22/01/2015

New Site

It’s been really good working on the new site for Penworks.net as I’ve managed to put into practice a lot of new techniques that I’ve been waiting to learn and then use for quite a while. New skills learned recently which I’m either using or will be using very soon for this project are SCSS (previously known as Sass, though...

Blog

22/01/2015

Reporting Live

Reporting Live: The State of Today is a new project. I’m aggregating a number of feed sources to automate the generation of an OPML which I can then do ‘fun stuff’ with. I really like the idea of art through data visualization and this is my first serious project to do that (though Baby Saatchi may also turn into that...

Ideas/Words

18/01/2015

Netfarms Update

I’ve updated Netfarms to try to attract small business sites as well as still focusing on student free sites. The idea is also to upload some more useful tutorials to the forum area for working with WordPress, so that any client or student who asks can have some resources all in one place that are actually useful. Sites are pitched...

Blog/Webdev

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

08/10/2014

Photography on Instagram

I take a lot of photographs, when I go to Malta, as well as about town or in other towns like Brighton or up north. I favour Instagram to share the majority. Now and again I’ll create a gallery on this site, for less treated images at full resolution. This entry is to showcase the Instagram gallery, which changes depending...

Ideas

03/10/2014

PhD Proposal

Ive submitted a proposal for a PhD based on the concept of completely open digital rights management. Whether or not this is even possible remains unclear, however what is certain is that gated systems of rights protection do not work. Recent research has shown me that many more in the digital product industry as well as those involved in the...

PhD

03/10/2014

Malabar at Watford, June 2014

Seeing Malabar is quite an extraordinary experience. Some friends invited me to come along to an outdoor show commissioned by Watford city council back in June this year. We were able to be backstage with crew and performers so it was pretty exciting to get such a close up view of what was going on. Though the video I shot...

Video

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

21/11/2013

Developing Your Internet Profile

“Growing New Markets for the Web” was an all day seminar aimed at start ups and small businesses. I was commissioned to scope and create the content, and lead the seminar on the day. The seminar was attended by around 35 start ups and small business owners and held at the Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, UK, supported by ‘Knowledge...

Featured/Social Media/Work

22/10/2013

MA Distinction

I’m very pleased to have graduated with distinction for the MA in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. I did half the course as APEL (Accredited Prior Experiential Learning) by submitting academic reports on previously undertaken commercial projects or teaching experience, the rest were taught modules in assessment, e-learning and academic theory. The dissertation was a particular success, with my...

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