National Photo Competition Prize

Here is the image that recently took Second Prize in a photographic competition organised by the Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP) Subject Centre.

All entries will be added to a database of images for use in learning and teaching.

I called this one "Into The Blue" having noted that they all had predominantly blue screens and transforming the rest of the image to monochrome helps to emphasise this; the theme of the competition was Creativity and Technology.

JSWEC 2007 Swansea

Joint Social Work in Education conference (JSWEC) 2007.

I was there at the invitation of the Social Work and Policy Subject Centre, with whom I have an e-learning consultancy role. One of my jobs at the conference was to record video interviews with some of the keynote speakers and authors of key texts who were present at the conference. I was also working as an event photographer capturing lots of “goings on” and capturing some informal video footage for later use in some training materials.

There will be some formal video footage on the SWAP website in due course but I’ll also be putting together some short video montages using free software, and then showing people just how I did it, so that people can learn how to do it for themselves.

Thunder and Lightning

Like thunder and lightning, By God it’s so exciting…

To quote the late great Phil Lynott (of Thin Lizzy).

There’s a thunderstorm raging as I write this little ice breaker to remind myself that I need to play catch-up with a dew items. First and foremost will be a quick overview of things I did at last week’s JSWEC Conference in Swansea. A useful but very busy conference. Can’t say I was too impressed with what little I saw of Swansea but I don’t think the weather helped… but got plenty of tasks done while there.

Oooh! Another Paper From Last Year!

Having seen the email about the JSIC eLearning publication when I logged on from home I arrived in work later in the morning to find a package for me. It was another set of conference proceedings and again I had a mention in it. Part of a joint paper with colleagues from the Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP) Subject Centre.

SWAP

Interestingly we are all attributed to the University of Southampton (location of the subject centre) which I don't mind but NTU might. Anyway it was a joint paper reflecting upon how a group of us had developed the role of e-Learning Champions as a method of disseminating e-learning knowledge into the discipline areas covered by SWAP.

The main point about this post and the last one is that it still surprises me how long it sometimes take things to roll through the system in academia (though it shouldn’t by now) but on the plus side you can suddenly get a couple of nice things out of the blue.