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Experience

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Malta, Faculty of Education, Department of Leadership for Learning and Innovation. My provisional title is “Developing an Effective Pedagogy for Smart Learning”. I teach some module work concerning smart learning, to both undergraduate and post graduate Education students. I also have undertaken some strategic report writing to summarise my work...

The CV

A summary of past and current work is available in the Experience page, to give an indication of what I do at work and my current research. This page provides some highlights. I also do a variety of freelance projects for web design and development. This site is one example. My CV is available below via Scribd (PDF). It includes...

The Art and Science of Survival

I like Blurb books. I’ve made a few, but my favourite is a collection of poems created to match images initially grouped only because they ‘looked good together’. The idea was to start with the image, then think of a matching title, then write the poem. As an experiment in creating a collection of work which is connected, and with...

We do Kool not Kute

I went along to the opening of a photography show curated by Jamie Brennan, “We do Kool Not Kute” and shot some video and stills. Jamie had asked me to have a go at making a video of the night. The show was great, and I really enjoyed making the media. This is the clip, there’s also a small gallery...

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...

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....

@penworks tweets

RT @EmmaKennedy: It’s #ThankATeacherDay so I’ll tell you a story. Back in 1985, sitting in the classroom of my state school, I had a moment of madness. I decided I wanted to try and get into Oxford. My school thought I was mad. And so did my parents. But I was determined..., 50 mins ago

Fun with #NVivo cases. Really time saving to label and categorise your quote collections to export as word docs and then put in tables for the thesis or further annotation. #phd #phdlife #analysis https://t.co/c12Ac3hhNS, Jun 19

RT @Gizmodo: Astronomers peer back 13 billion years and see two galaxies colliding https://t.co/m1Zus4hunC https://t.co/iJtIh5PsP3

, Jun 19

RT @Vibeology: Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac @OpenCulture - https://t.co/PNYiiUsHe3 https://t.co/YDg0vAE7hb, Jun 19

RT @doctorow: Penguin book covers by Alan Aldridge https://t.co/v2tRTDSztB /2 https://t.co/bemtXPzL0A

, Jun 16