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Bex’s Workplan for 2010/11

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Category : Career, drbexl

OK, so for those of you who say it’s hard to keep track (which can include me!), finally have some confirmations, so here’s what’s going on… (am hoping it’s not as crazy a timetable as last year, but suspect another event or 2 will sneak in there…)

June

July

  • Finish project ‘SkillsNet’ (50 hours, 23 already done), ensuring that all ‘Skills Related’ material is easily accessible to students online, rather than duplicated or confusing material across subjects
  • 0.4 History Lectureship comes to an end (although I’ll have to complete any marking, etc. for resits)
  • Start 0.5 work on the project “The Big Read” for CODEC (based at Premier Radio in London, although occasional visits to Durham may be necessary!
  • Start Work on EMBED IT (around 125 hours, 3-4 already done), a JISC funded project with the Universities of Loughborough, Middlesex and Strathclyde, with regards to embedding Wimba within the University of Winchester
  • Write up the Hertfordshire ‘Using Twitter for Communities of Practice’ as my second assignment for PGCLTHE.
  • Twitter Talk for “Out There
  • TAKE A HOLIDAY!

August

  • Review Editor “The Poster” Journal
  • Contributor, Journal of Technology, Religion and Theology
  • Write up my Reflective Portfolio as my third and final assignment for PGCLTHE.
  • Confirmed for a year, an extra 0.2 (so 0.4 total) for the Blended Learning Fellowship.

September

  • TAKE ANOTHER HOLIDAY, possibly Pilates Retreat (probably just going to my parents actually!)

October

  • Module Leadership for ‘Manipulating Media’. Associate Lecturing for  Media Studies, University of Winchester, carries across the year on a Friday.

December

  • Steering Committee, CODEC

February 2011

  • Teaching on the PGCLTHE (Blended Learning Module), Wednesday afternoons:16/02,09/03,27/04, 18/05
  • Teaching 12 hours for History on an ‘Independent Study Module’
  • Up for debate: teaching 24 hours for ‘Intro to Media Studies’ on Monday afternoons…

May 2011

June 2011

July 2011

Transferable Skills: PhD

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Category : Academic, Career

An article by Pat Cryer explaining the many transferable skills students gain whilst studying for a PhD (1997), and an article from 2004 explaining why many PhDs desert academia.

More information to come on specific transferable skills from my PhD.

In the meantime please read more on http://www.ww2poster.co.uk

What Others Say

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Category : Personality Profiling, drbexl

Others indicate that I have a number of strengths:

  • Looking to create unity, harmony, and create a cohesive whole from seemingly disparate elements
  • Seeks, encourages and generates creative ideas to promote valued causes.
  • Works at both strategic and practical levels
  • Will consult appropriate experts (academics, students, creative & technical agencies)
  • Trained to work to a high level, implementing, and seeing things through to completion.

A collection of comments provided through feedback from friends, students, managers:

See more under Personality Profiling.

(Slightly belated) Happy Christmas 2009… but on time for Happy New Year 2010!

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Category : Travel & Adventure

After taking 15hours to move about 4 miles along the M20 in Dover, finally made it to Lauterbrunnen where I’ve been cooking for 50 people all week (along with John P, who is in charge!). Christmas Eve was my day for skiing – didn’t quite work, so just enjoyed the train ride/apple fritters in Brandegg on Christmas Day, before we came back and cooked up a storm…


Heading back into the UK 27/28 December, so here’s praying you had a great Christmas, and are looking forward to 2010 - who knows what it will hold. For those of you who have lost track of what I’m up to, and are interested, I am doing the following (I was going to do this on my blog, but the database seems to have a problem, so I can’t get in…), mostly at the University of Winchester:

  1. 1 day per week promoting e-learning (permanent, but not enough to live on)
  2. 2 day per week Modern History Lectureship (til June 2010)
  3. Hourly (but around 2 day per week) teaching Media Studies (til June 2010)
  4. Completing my own studies: PGCLTHE (trying to finish by Febraruy 2010…)
  5. Setting up the socialmedia strategy for Super Fun Days Out (love some blog entries if you have time!), alongside ownsocial media consultancy.
  6. Other bits & bobs…Getting myself in the New York Times was probably a bit of a highlight for last year!

Bex’s Blog

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Category : Experimentation

Purpose of this blog
  • Familiarisation with what is ‘now’ on the ‘net
  • Experimentation with some of the new widgets/applications
  • Listings of useful websites, depending on my focus for that day
My Websites

See portfolio of websites: www.mydesigna.co.uk