User:Mberry
From Schoolforge-UK
I'm head of Alton Convent School's prep department. The prep department is a co-educational independent Catholic day school for children from 3-11 in Hampshire, England. Professional interests include knowledge management in education, use of open source software and principles in schools, provision for the gifted and talented and independent learning. I'm a member of the British Computer Society's Education and Training Expert Panel, and its e-learning working party. I am also a Mirandanet fellow and have a watching brief on primary matters for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Schools and Further Education committee. In my former post as deputy head of St Ives School, Haslemere, I pioneered the use of Moodle and Elgg in primary education. My work on implementing Moodle was documented as the dissertation for Leicester University's MBA in Educational Management, and won the 2006 Becta ICT in Practice Award for primary teaching. Other interests include classical music, creative cookery and photography: most of my digital photos are on Flickr, many of which are geotagged.
I have a blog on Elgg.
Publications and presentations
| March 2007 |
Presentation at NAACE Strategic Conference on primary learning platforms |
| January 2007 |
Presentation with Terry Freedmand at BETT2007 on "Social Technologies and Learning in Your Classroom: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More" |
| October 2006 | Presentation on Moodle for Midhurst area intermediate and first schools |
| September 2006 |
Presentaion on "Personalisation, social learning and the e-strategy" for Curverider conference, Edinburgh. social learning and the e-strategy.pdf Slides and video online. |
| August 2006 |
"Moodle and assessment", comissioned article for Assessment News 10, the newsletter of Cambridge Assessment Network. |
| July 2006 | "An investigation of the effectiveness of virtual learning envrinomnet implementation in primary education", dissertation for Leicester University MBA in Educational Management |
| July 2006 |
Presentation to MoodleMoot 06 on Naace Learning Platforms CPD toolkit. Toolkit.pdf Slides , report, audio and now video (!) online. |
| July 2006 |
Presentation on "Moodle, Elgg and the E-Strategy" for Flossie 06. Slides available elgg estrategy.pdf online. |
| Feb-June 2006 |
Series of seminars for Harnessing Technology: Beyond Tomorrow conferences (NCSL SLICT): The value of ICT in extending the school (slides and further material online) |
| May 2006 |
Commissioned article, Primary Platform for TES Online (5/5/06) on Moodle |
| April 2006 |
Mirandanet presentation on PLEs, VLEs and beyond. Slides Topology.pdf online. |
| April 2006 |
Commissioned paper on Primary Blogging and paper on Effective E-learning through Collaboration (with Steve Lee) for Coming of Age: an introduction to the new world wide web (ed Terry Freedman). |
| April 2006 |
Presentation and seminar (with Mike Partrdge) on Effective Learning Platforms: primary education, personalised learning and social networks. Learning Platforms.pdf Slides available online. |
| March 2006Â |
Workshops for Emerging Leaders (NCSL): “Learning Platforms†- slides platforms.swf online |
| March 2006 |
Presentation on “Enhanced Teaching with the help of ICT†for Becta at theEducation Show |
| February 2006 |
Commissioned article for Computer Education (NAACE): “Knowledge management in education and the contribution of Virtual Learning Environmentsâ€. Management.pdf Text available online. |
| January 2006Â |
Commissioned article for Literacy and ICT (National Literacy Association): More than Word |
| January 2006 |
Presentation as part of HUGToB on the use of Moodle at St Ives; alsopress release and flyer.pdf flyer. |
| January 2006 |
Presentation as part of the BCS e-learning working party at BETT on the use of Moodle and Elgg to support the e-strategy (online flash movie) |
| December 2005 | Discussion paper for NAACE MIS think tank: Knowledge management in education and the contribution of Virtual Learning Environments |
| November 2005 |
Short article on "How Pupils Use Moodle", Linux Format 74, p66 |
| Novemeber 2005 |
HUGToB post: Moodle, open source and social constructionism |
| October 2005 |
Schoolforge-UK article: Effective e-learning through collaboration (with Steve Lee) |
| October 2005 | Article for Mathematics Today (IMA): Issues facing the primary sector |
| October 2005 |
A virtual learning environment in primary education (Mirandanet fellowship paper). |
| August 2005 |
Plenary presentation at Moodle Moot 05 (Said Business School, Oxford): An investigation of the effectiveness of Moodle in primary education (slides online) |
| July 2005 |
Schoolforge-UK article: open source software for the ICT curriculum |
| June 2005 | Article in Mathematics Today (IMA): Report on BCME-6 |
| May 2005 |
Podcast interviewwith Leon Cych of Learn4Life on Moodle at St Ives. |
| April 2005 | Poster presentation at CAL 05 (University of Bristol): An investigation of the effectiveness of virtual learning environment implementation in primary education |
