#500words on the purpose of education? Where do I begin! #purposed
So when Doug Belshaw asked if I would contribute to the #500words Purpos/ed challenge, a month long “borderless forum” discussing and promoting debate around the purpose of education. I was honoured to...
View ArticleAmplified Events for PhD Students at UWS (25th Feb, 2011)
Last October, the Innovation and Research Office at UWS asked if PhD students would like to give seminars to the research community based on their specialism. I offered to do a few sessions around...
View Article#Education (or what the University could learn from teh internetz)...
I was invited by Derek Harding to speak at the University of Teesside last Thursday around the broad topic of my research and teaching practice. Based on the things that I’m up to at the moment, I...
View ArticleHacking Contemporary Screen Acting: Pedagogy of “doing stuff” #uwsltas
This is the second year that Stuart Hepburn has asked me to guest lecture as part of his Contemporary Screen Acting (CSA) degree at University of the West of Scotland. CSA is different from say, a...
View ArticleUpdate on @UWSDigital & Social Media for the South of Scotland Surgeries
We are at the half-way point of the first part of the research project I’ve been assisting with, providing social media support to communities in the south of Scotland. In the last 2 weeks, I’ve...
View ArticleWorkshop: 6 things learned during social media training for Renfrewshire Council
An online snapshot of Scotland's libraries
View ArticlePortfolio: Celebrate Website and Social Media Content Strategy
In my role at UWS’s Creative Media Academy, I’ve just completed a commissioned project working with my colleague Prof. David McGillivray and the Big Lottery Fund Scotland to develop the web platform...
View ArticleUsing #OpenBadges for the Digital Commonwealth Project
As part of my role as project coordinator for the Digital Commonwealth project, I have been working with the project team to develop a set of educational resources which will be used to support...
View ArticleGuest post on Digital Storytelling in the Scottish Government’s Legacy Blog
A few weeks ago during Legacy Week, I was asked to write a guest post for the Scottish Government’s Legacy 2014 blog on Digital Storytelling and the process so far for the Digital Commonwealth project....
View ArticleGuest on @EduTalkr Internet Radio: On lessons from Digital Commonwealth
Over Christmas, I was invited by David Noble as a guest on the EduTalk live internet radio show. I spoke about my role as project coordinator on the Big Lottery funded Digital Commonwealth project,...
View ArticleThose things I’ve learned through my role as the Digital Commonwealth project...
Thursday night’s Digital Commonwealth finale showcase marked the end of a project that I had been involved in and represented for over 2 years. I was in a full time post (funded by Big Lottery Fund...
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