Penworks.Net

10/09/2013

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...

Featured/Ideas/Images/Video

10/09/2013

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...

Blog

08/09/2013

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...

CV/Featured

07/09/2013

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...

Featured/Images/Video

07/09/2013

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...

Featured/Ideas/Images

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

30/03/2013

SocialMet

SocialMet was a university social media project instigated by the Strategic Programme office at London Metropolitan University. The initial aim of the project was to elicit direct feedback from students (and staff) for input into the development of the Student Charter. I was approached by the SPO to lead on how to achieve this as had worked with social media...

Featured/Learning & Teaching/Social Media/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...

Learning & Teaching/Webdev/Work