Penworks.net is home to Pen Lister: Lecturer, Web & Social Media Dev/Design, Elearning, word player, songsmith, ambient image maker.

penworks.net : the hello part

Social Media is not for the faint-hearted

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After writing (yet) another proposal for our university’s social media initiatives to help (yet) another strand of activity at the uni to reach out to its core audience, I am struck by just how easy most people think this is. Everyone wants more out of social media – lecturers, community outreach, student support, staff support, marketing, faculty news delivery… whatever.

There are many core aspects that everyone potentially fails to understand

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*this is the most recent post from my Webteach EdTech or Take Notes Tech blogs.*

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penworks.net : the about part

Some background, a little detail and focus

Stuff I know

  1. the digital world: web, social, media, ipr, ux
  2. the real world: lecturing, elearning, content strategy
  3. the future world: social and content in higher education
  4. what's next: help change Higher Education, making it more relevant, meaningful and actually worth the money.
  5. formal stuff: MSc MBCS FHEA MA (completing)

Previous Stuff I did

Songwriter/musician/researcher/interviewer/sculptors assistant/music youth worker/music merchandise sales exec/not in that order

Some video

  1. This video was a trailer for SocialMet, it's got me in it. We had to make several clips, both to promote the initiative, and to create a buzz of what students would say to us. All the other clips are available on the Vimeo SocialMet page.

The Skills

  1. (X)HTML, CSS2&3, HTML5, jQuery/ iMovie, Premiere/ Ableton, Reason, Audacity/ Adobe PS, Ill, Flash/RSS & XML/Social Media/CMS: Drupal+Drupal Commons, Expression Engine, Wordpress+WP multisite, Nano, Flatpress etc/ academic lecturing experience at all levels of study/Current content & semantic technology online/project management & tech app planning/ client management/ student project supervision/ elearning strategy/content strategy

The CV

  1. Check out the CV
    2. - full CV for al lthe latest in depth info, recent work history and references.

    This is a Scribd embed.

penworks.net : the interesting part

Some of my current projects, fun stuff, work stuff, ideas.

SocialMet

  1. SocialMet
    2. - an academic project using social media to help rebuild a university brand and the relationships it has with all its core users. To date we have over 1200 members in our social networks

Changing Universities

  1. Changing Universities
    2. - a very exciting initiative building a potentially global network of loosely aligned professionals who all have some remit in change management in the academic community. To date we have around 150 members, coming from the UK, Australia and the USA. We have academics and adminstrators of various (usually) senior roles.

In Words

  1. In Words
    2. - This is a live art project, using poetry to build xml results in a variety of digital spaces.

Baby Saatchi

  1. The Baby Saatchi Facebook Project
    2. - a gallery of "rogue, sasstacular" images from a multitude of Facebook Ids, pages and groups. Also see the homepage at babysaatchi.com and on Facebook

Elearning Matrix

  1. The London Met Elearning Matrix
    2. - a project on behalf of the London Met Elearning Unit to create a useful focal point for resources and case studies for elearning in higher education. Check the site directly here: celtelearning.org

Art Show Videos

  1. TRXTR Dystopia
    2. - Shoreditch, London UK, April 2013. Art show at Signal Gallery, London EC2.
  2. We Do Kool Not Kute
    3. - Camden, London UK, February 2013. Photography show in pop up gallery space curated by Jamie Brennan.
  3. Guerilla Galleries Reveal
    4. - Graduate art from the GG crew, taking over the Daniel Libeskind Space, Holloway Rd, London UK.

SocialMet

SocialMet is a brave initiative by our university. We are not popular in many peoples eyes. We don't rank highly, we are losing a lot of jobs, we are in the front lines of higher education. Some people may not even view us as a 'proper' university. In fact, we are at the forefront of change and therefore a great guide of what is to come. So, when senior management agreed to open the doors to our community, it was brave. I'm honoured to have imagined it, built it and to look after it.

Facebook | socialmet.co.uk | Twitter | LinkedIn | Posterous

SocialMet

SocialMet is: BRAVE

SocialMet

SocialMet is: HOPEFUL

SocialMet

SocialMet is: FAST FORWARD

SocialMet

SocialMet is: EVERYONE

Changing Universities

The changing universities website is a community for reinventing universities. It exists to offer an online platform for discussing many aspects of university working processes using groups, discussions, social media and anything else that may help. We provide public and private (invite only) groups for people to discuss issues they may be involved in, in a virtual environment.

Creating Groups

Private & public groups online

Sharing News

Sector driven news in change leadership and future planning

The London Met Elearning Matrix

The London Met Elearning Matrix is a comprehensive resource for all things elearning in higher education, with multiple ways to access content using categories and tagging. Built using Expression Engine 2.5, with full bespoke front and back end and utilizing well known EE modules like Playa, Matrix, Assets and more. It also makes a lot of use of jQuery while retaining a clear, fairly formal layout and approach. It's fully social media integrated, back and front.

We Do Kool Not Kute from penworkz on YouTube.

TRXTR Dystopia @ Signal Gallery from penworkz on YouTube.

GuerillaGalleries Reveal @ the Daniel Libeskind Space from penworkz on YouTube.

penworks.net : the archive part

Archive Site

Published: Thu, November 22, 2012; 10:28:03 am | Author: Pen

open the files
To access the archive site, click the box:
This site is from 2009-2011, with approx 50 tutorials and all blog posts syndicated from the Take Notes blog from that time.
Tagged: archives