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Educator. Knows about web stuff, landscape architecture stuff and photography. Lead for student experience and engagement at UoG.

North Hampshire, UK
Joined July 2009
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It's goodbye from #SotB2021 - Thanks to our amazing speakers @eatwholegrain @seaotta @slightlylate @LeonieWatson @rachelandrew @heydonworks @caseorganic And our sponsors @samsunginternet @getpostman @SquizGlobal @Netlify @piccalilli_ @HuxleyDigitalUK See you next year!
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Please remember it is against college policy to turn your in-person course into a hybrid course. Also, please make sure all your lectures are recorded and accessible in real time and that they are asynchronously available online for students who need them and can’t attend!
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Teaching is perhaps 100x harder than we expect. The common misconception is that it’s about sharing your knowledge; it’s not. Rather, it’s about understanding what’s in the student’s mind, modeling that in your mind, building a bridge from the student’s mental state to yours.
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We are recruiting in #design Are you interested in joining a modern GREschool.design where #creative #practice #research #studentExperience are the core of our #ethos @UniofGreenwich APPLY for Lecturer in #GraphicDesign #illustration #Animation @ tinyurl.com/GREdesign – at London, England
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Some excellent news - we have three new posts to help us expand our deliver on the new Digital UX apprentice degree, the Digital Technology Solutions apprentice degree, the BSc Digital Media & Communications and the new for 2021 BSc Web & User Experience Design ... RTs please.
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The @GREDesignSchool have put together this wonderful video full of staff and students to show how they've been managing at home during these uncertain times. #WeAreTogether #ProudToBeGre
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Are you a design graduate worrying about ‘How to get a job as a designer…’? Join me tonight at 17.00 BST and I’ll share some advice to help you stand out from the crowd. 100% free, because… look at what our frontline workers are doing. #staysafe us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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With remote working, and especially under the current circumstances, we all need to be more flexible and accommodating. We wrote a few things so everyone at Clearleft knows it's OK to...
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So, you’re moving your teaching online; have you thought about what images you will be using? The lovely @Shieldingafar has put together a great blog with a variety of sites you can get your images from and use them without infringing copyright laws. tiny.cc/dlblog02
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New e-learning course: “How To Mute Your Mic Whilst Other People Are Talking During A Group Video Call”. Register today!
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Good day fellow educators! We’re kicking off our series of @joindesigntrack Founder Firesides (free!) with @elliotjaystocks on Thursday. Your students are welcome to join us. us04web.zoom.us/meeting/regi… /cc @eskins, @springfishblue, @miggi … RTs welcome.
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Excited to be hosting The Landscapists Seminars over the coming weeks. Thanks to friends and colleagues for joining these critical conversations about how we design and research. Full listings on: thelandscape.org/the-landsca… #landscapearchitecture #urbanism #urbandesign
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Are you interested in teaching front-end, web design, UX? We are looking to speak to people interested in getting into teaching. This industry has reached the stage where we need practitioners to help develop new talent. Roles coming up. DM.
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If you are interested in #creative disciplines and you can’t wait to study in #LONDON come and talk to us at stand No8 #creativemanchester @ucas_online @UCASMedia #proudtobeGre
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Did another CSS-only art. Flemish/baroque inspired. Two weekends. Made for Chrome.
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Denmark pays its students $1,000 a month to go to university and charge no tuition fees. Students are seen as an investment in the future rather than a cost.
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I've open sourced the demos & course notes from my recent @shapeofdata "Intro to Creative Coding" workshop on p5.js and Tone.js. 🗒️ Course Notes → github.com/mattdesl/workshop… 🎨 p5.js Demos → p5-demos.glitch.me 🔊 Tone.js Demos → tone-demos.glitch.me
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We are 4 tickets away from breaking our SOLD TICKETS record in four years, and have an hour to go before ticket sales end: 2019.stateofthebrowser.com/t… 🎫 #Retweet to help us break the record! #SOTB2019 🙌🏽
Students! This is an amazing opportunity. If you’re learning #UX, #UI, #Design, get in quick. 👇🏻
Student tickets for DIBI Conference are just £24. That gives you a day of Design and UX inspiration, lunch and an after party... >> dibiconference.com
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“Education is a right, not a privilege. We urgently need to rethink education, particularly design education.” I wrote a few thoughts on ‘Disrupting Design Education’: buff.ly/2LJp2DZ
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