 Online content strategy for learning spaces Online content and resource design and creation for primary and secondary maths, science and ICT. Project management for online resource design and creation for companies such as the West Bromwich Building Society, Birmingham Advisory Support Service and Service Birmingham. Maths and finance educational game design, such as the AweSum Challenge resource (http://awesumchallenge.igfl.org)

Provision of teaching and advisory support to professionals, learners and educational bodies.Range of clients include: - School-age children seeking to accelerate and raise achievement in maths, science and ICT., Adults seeking support in raising employability through maths/science/ICT.- Businesses requiring maths/science input. - Adults with acquired brain damage seeking to rehabilitate and reconnect through ICT and personalised mentoring.- Professionals seeking to raise their work performance, using a personalised approach of behaviour management, emotional intelligence development and solutions-focused brief therapy counselling)

Delivering the maths, science and ICT national curriculum to children and young people with identified medical needs (physical, psychological, social, emotional)

Coordination of maths department for pupils with a range of cognitive, social and emotional special needs.

My role was curriculum adviser for online content to Link2ICT, Service Birmingham (a Birmingham City Council/Capita Group strategic partnership).My main focus was the online content for the Birmingham Grid for Learning website (bgfl.org) for Birmingham teachers and learners. Receiving approximately 1 million unique page views per week, BGfL website is widely regarded as a national leading reaching and learning website for uptodate, innovative, rich and engaging content.I have particularly enjoyed planning and creating content that supports both teachers’ and learners’ current needs to cope with today’s demands – and planning how best to meet their future ones. Learning is going mobile, visual, connected and learner-centric. I think educational online content should do so too.Underpinning content creation and delivery was the development of a BGfL-specific content strategy, focused both on meeting BGfL’s core objectives and its users’ diverse needs in an increasingly demanding world of education. Therefore, I enjoyed both contributing to an up-to-date, relevant content strategy for the website and other online content – and providing content strategy training for clients as soon as they commission a website with us.Inevitably, 21st century learning developments online for school-age learners are connecting to other age-groups and other aspects of life, ensuring a continuous evolution of job role during my time at Link2ICT. The most recent areas of development iincluded 21C elearning for employability projects, elearning research projects and innovative uses of social media to transform learning for children and adults.So where was I in all of this? If lifelong learning is based on construction (of new knowledge), conversation (learners-learners, learners-teachers, other) and control (owning one's learning), then I want to be where that's most likely to happen: Online Socially Networked Learning Spaces.

Supporting Birmingham schools' adoption of the KS3 Strategy for maths.

 Teaching maths and science to young people outside mainstream due to exclusion, emotionally or behaviourally disturbed behaviour, pregnancy, medical, psychiatric referrals Providing pastoral care through a multi-agency approach with the students, parents, medical support, social services, police as relevant Developing school-industry links through Rover, Alstom and other Birmingham-based companies for learning context and re-engagement