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Now a teacher educator, I've been working with technology since 1981 when I acquired a Sinclair ZX-Spectrum to create spelling and maths tests for my kids. I also managed a pilot computerised journey planning system for the ambulance service (at a time when a 30Mbyte hard drive was the size of a large desk).
The training of staff gradually became more interesting than the computing, and I started teaching in an FE college in 1991. As the only owner of a computer in the department I subsequently became the IT lecturer.
In 1999 I developed Coleg Llandrillo’s first online learning website, and in 2002 I used an early VLE (Technikal) before setting up Moodle in 2003 (two years before the College adopted this platform). I worked as an e-Tutor for Bangor University between 2002 and 2006 using Colloquia.
I adopted Twitter in 2009, my single best source of inspiration for developing teaching and learning ideas. The sharing of ideas and resources through things like crowd sourcing and TeachMeets have had real benefits for developing teaching and learning projects. I’ve just discovered new ways to use the SOLO taxonomy, and we are investigating how to apply John Hattie’s latest work. I’m currently part of a group investigating how we should promote effective learning for individual students given the changes in technology and the access to personal devices such as smart phones.
I’m an External Examiner with the University of Greenwich, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Institute for Learning, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and hold a Master's Degree and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, as well as Summer, Winter and the UIMLA International Mountain Leader Awards.
My international experience includes travel and tourism work in India, Pakistan, Svalbard (Spitsbergen) and Europe, and in-country staff development with teachers in China, Croatia, and Pakistan.Following a second mid-life crisis I’ve rediscovered a love of large motorcycles.
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E-portfolios – the final chapter
Well, the ESCalate ITE conference was as close to getting stressed as I’ve been for a while. The night before as I was finishing the presentation (Using OpenOffice Impress) the network argued with something and locked the presentation down. I didn’t realise this until I was about 90 minutes to go as I couldn’t open the presentation which was there, but wasn’t. Yes, I know I sound like a student – but instead of going into victim mode I sorted it by starting afresh. As I’m getting the workshop ready someone walked past me and I looked up to see Julie Hughes – the PebblePad champion from Wolverhampton. Despite my pleading she wouldn’t go away, and I knew there was no way to bluff my way out of this one.
In the end, it was a really useful session, but interesting to see how many people demonstrate e-portfolios, use and share resources, and what system they prefer.
You can download a copy from here: http://yrathro.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/epf2009_findings_all.pdf
