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Bex’s Workplan for 2010/11 (revised)

So, my crazy timetable continues (I don’t want any more projects til next summer!). I’m enjoying everything I’m doing, and have even had to give up some things I love doing… very privileged for this year… who knows what next year will bring however…

Over the past few months, since the last update:

  • Made it to the gym more regularly (particularly Boxercise & Circuit Training, and upped my walking across in London)
  • Resigned as Social Media Strategist for Super Fun Days Out (other projects have taken over, but I will continue to provide occasional blog posts as I undertake SFDOs!)
  • Worked with Matt Buck to create a new logo for Digital Fingerprint (a site into which I am keen to put more time, although regular postings continue)
  • Continued sporadic postings to this blog, and ww2poster.
  • Set up http://bigbible.org.uk, work which continues (with a new site under development)
  • Set up and started developing content for http://wblb.wordpress.com/
  • Set up and created a site for a new module: http://manipulating-media.co.uk, for which I also prepared 2 x 3 hour interactive sessions, although I think this planned chapter may fall through.
  • Written reports for BODGIT and SkillsNet, both projects into which I have put large amounts of work.
  • Written a review of Imperial War Museum exhibitions for “The Poster” Journal (for which I am a Review Editor), and submitted an article for Capture Journal.
  • Submitted my second PGCLTHE assignment, returned with a mark of 70%.
  • Undertaken a review of the iPad.
  • Since August 2010, a 0.4 contract for the year for the Blended Learning Fellowship, including these workshops
  • Attended LICC Social Media Bootcamp, helped organise, market & presented three sessions (including a shared keynote with @maggidawn) for #CNMAC10, plus  a load of promo sessions for @bigbible… and attended #LikeMinds.
  • Not seen enough of my friends though, and trying to remedy that!

November 2010

  • Continue with my paid roles (0.5 University of Durham, 0.4 University of Winchester plus teaching commitments and other projects), with a particular focus on ensuring that the @bigbible housegroup material is ready before I go on holiday.
  • Undertaking consultancy with 12baskets re: marketing, creating online buzz, and getting more creatives involved (trial, potentially ongoing).
  • Working with Matt Buck on developing a talk around Second World War posters, using his expertise as a cartoonist (potentially in a similar style to the RSA).
  • 22nd: Drop In Day (inaugural event, to encourage experimentation with online tools)
  • Super User at the JISC Innovating Learning (online) conference.
  • 30th: Digimission 2.0

December 2010

  • Write up my Reflective Portfolio as my third and final assignment for PGCLTHE.
  • 2nd: Steering Committee, CODEC
  • 6th: Meet Bible Society people.
  • 30 more hours for SkillsNet running to the end of the academic year.
  • 18th December – 3rd January: Egypt!

January 2011

  • Working with David Rush on an article, building upon our Hertfordshire conference paper ‘Using Twitter for Communities of Practice’.
  • 14th: BODGIT Event, Loughborough
  • 14th: Deadline for submission of papers to #PELC11
  • Consider other list of potential publications, including possible book proposal (from my PhD, always planned to, but the visual issue is quite a big issue), articles for ‘History and Policy’, ‘The Poster’, Journal of Technology, Religion and Theology.

February 2011

  • 1st: BODGIT Event, Winchester
  • 14th: Deadline for submission of papers to #ALTC11
  • (from) Teaching on the PGCLTHE (Blended Learning Module), Wednesday afternoons:16/02,09/03,27/04, 18/05
  • (from) Teaching 12 hours for History on an ‘Independent Study Module’, with flexible tutorials
  • (from) Teaching 24 hours for ‘Intro to Media Studies’ on Monday afternoons

April 2011

  • 5th: O2 iPhone contract expires…
  • 6th-8th: PELC 2011 (for which I am on the International Review Board)

May 2011

June 2011

July 2011

  • Hopefully have some new contracts coming in around now, as only 7.5 hours of my work is “definite” (as anything is in the current climate) from this point.
  • 14th-15th: PLE Conference, Southampton
  • 14th: Talk to Winchester Women Graduates on Second World War posters.
  • Maybe a trip to Israel with Oak Hall?

August 2011

September 2011

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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