Internet technology person. Eclectic musical tastes, bicycling, technology, ethics in tech, parenting escapades. Currently helping out at @oaknational.
London, UK
Joined April 2008
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We (@OakNational) are hiring a Lead React Engineer and a Lead Backend Engineer. Lots of responsibility and opportunity to shape the growth of the products, technologies and teams as we grow. Details here: jobs.thenational.academy/
In a few weeks we should be able to start serving all of our videos and learning resources from across 3rd party services entirely through @OakNational domain to enable every child in the UK to use Oak across the major UK mobile networks with no data charges
🎉 Data campaign 🎉
We're very excited to say that @VodafoneUK, @O2, @ThreeUK and @EE have agreed to join our campaign for zero-rating education sites 🥳
We now have some work to do with @MuxHQ and all involved, but this is a massive step forward in closing the #DigitalDivide 👏
In addition to the obvious (and painstaking) political wranglings this has taken a huge amount of technical inventiveness and creativity (not to mention skill) to pull off. It's obviously a full team effort but 👏in particular to @stef
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🤯 We've helped over a million children in the last 24 hours to be able to keep learning from home during lockdown. Well done to all the teachers who came together to make all these video lessons over the Summer! Glad the tech is holding up to do it justice 😅😎
If you can, join the @climateActTech TEDx event tomorrow to discuss the role that the tech industry can play in taking real action to address the climate emergency #TEDxClimateActionTech
Join us for the first TEDx to link #ClimateAction to the #Tech industry, as part of @TEDx @TEDCountdown #JoinTheCountdown #TEDtalks climateacttech.medium.com/te…
My team at @OakNational are hiring a Head of Product. Perhaps it could be you? Any questions, feel free to ask me or John.
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Simon is awesome. Astute business strategy and design leadership. You should probably hire him.
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🎉 It’s live! 🎉 Over the Summer we’ve built a new version of the @OakNational platform with almost 10,000 video lessons covering a wide range of subject. It’s a “Plan B” for if schools/communities end up in COVID lockdown. classroom.thenational.academ…
The last couple of months of my life have been spent shaping and capturing data about ~10k lessons, turning it into a coherent curriculum and timetable and encoding and captioning the video for the lessons. We shipped the lesson planner app yesterday with classroom coming v soon!
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Trying out my favourite joke on 5yo:
“How do you turn a duck into a soul singer? Put it in the microwave until its bill withers”
Turns out there’s a lot to unpack and explain in there.
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Looking for a #reactjs freelancer to contribute on @OakNational for a few weeks, possibly longer. UK resident, remote. Someone had to drop out at the last minute. Lovely team, high impact work, sensible/interesting tech stack (#nextjs, #serverless, #graphql). RTs appreciated! ⚡️
Listening back to some old cassette mixes I made many years ago. Digitised via USB-connected walkman, streamed from NAS to phone and via Airplay to stereo. Music was alright actually.
Watching this badly-recorded Hookworms in-store show makes me miss watching live music in a way that Glastonbury coverage never has: youtu.be/kZKspwoDZ5w
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What we teach in schools has rightly come under the spotlight in recent weeks. @dmthomas90 outlines how we’re starting to think about what we choose to teach at Oak next year.
We won’t have got it right yet - so do give us your feedback:
oaknat.uk/31AHANZ
Excited to announce that I'm going to be helping to make this happen!
📢📢 We have big news! 📢📢
Supporting teachers is at the core of everything we do, so we are delighted to announce that we'll continue to do so all next academic year! 🌟 💚 📚
Read more 👇 and here 👉oaknat.uk/3fQtLPe
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Due to "reasons" I find myself available for work.
So if you need some flavour of technical / product leadership feel free to get in touch. You never know, I may be able to help 😃
Well that was the strangest run I’ve done for a while. Half way round everyone came out of their houses and started clapping and cheering me on!
Seriously though, very cheering to see every street out for #clapforNHS