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My Life on the Web

This page provides links to my other lives on the web, it’s truthfully just an easy way for me to access these links when they come up in coversation. My Webteach blog, my main Vimeo, my Soundcloud, my presentations at Speakerdeck, my Academia.edu and my ResearchGate are all here. Some content is embedded below, for a taste of what you...

Becoming FHEA and MBCS

I have became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the British Computer Society (2013). A good colleague recommended me to the BCS, as I have more than 5 years experience in an ICT profession. The FHEA is in recognition of completing the Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PG Cert). I’m...

Trxtr At the Signal Gallery

Trxtr did a great show early in 2013, called Dystopia, and I went along to take photographs and make a video of what happened. Here’s the video, and there’s a photo gallery here too. I use a Panasonic GF3, shoot HD 1080p AVCHD and use hi res jpg stills. I always use iMovie to edit these days, it’s just no...

Baby Saatchi

(Updated 2018 for archive.) Baby Saatchi was a project about content, and centred around the idea of ‘Rogue, Sasstacular’. It embodied numerous sources interlinking scraped image feeds plus additional content pulled from gadgets, science, tech, design, fashion, travel and comics, so creating new identified (branded) content. I used Facebook and Flipboard to achieve this. The main hub of Baby Saatchi...

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....

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...

@penworks tweets

The secret to solving the issue of domestic chore sharing is to get rid of the sharing expectation: live alone. Perfect. https://t.co/kecZzsQHPK, 3 hours ago

RT @robmanuel: Looking forward to this sitcom where Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield play two working class builders who stick on some wigs and posh voices to sneak into a parliament bar to pull "posh totty" and accidentally end up in government https://t.co/K2d6HDBNZM, 3 hours ago

RT @IEthics: "Court nixes site for reselling digital music": https://t.co/svvRmmJ4rq #ethics #law #internet #business #copyright, 5 hours ago

All I got for Xmas was surveillance capitalism. #datasociety https://t.co/RllDSiNNEk, 9 hours ago

RT @doctorow: #1yrago What is bias in machine learning, when does it matter, and what can we do about it? https://t.co/2MxslQjJfY https://t.co/bUWoGphQrt, 9 hours ago