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Darwen, Gb

Darwen, England, United Kingdom

"There are so many apps for children out there, but we see that many of these are addictive without any kind of learning value. We wanted to do something about this, so we created an app to develop a love of reading in children".Team Pickatale

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

LbQ produced just over 3,000 self-paced lessons, primarily designed to enable mastery through formative assessment. The product won the ERA award for Best Secondary Resource 2019, the Bett award for Secondary Content 2020 and the Teach Primary award for Best Maths Product 2020. The product is also shortlisted in three categories at the 2021 Bett Awards: Primary Content, Secondary Content and Free Digital Content.• developed the instructional framework and development processes for the product• responsible for the quality of output in terms of pedagogy and execution• led the editorial and design teams, and responsible for developing authors• developed models and guidelines for the team to work to• worked closely with the team to ensure that ideas translated to effective instruction and assessment• development edited, copyedited and signed off on maths, English and Science content• reviewed output and processes for inefficiencies, and managed production costs against quality.

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

I worked in the lead instructional design role at Promethean, specialising in collaborative content and software for whole-group and small-group classroom instruction. I was responsible for the design and execution of Promethean's flagship educational content products, including partner/publisher products. My role covered conceptualization, prototyping, design, development and delivery of content products. This included recruiting and managing production teams (in-house or external vendors), and also producing best practice guidelines for content development, pattern documentation, and product specs. Key projects:• ActivTable product content and Activity Builder for ActivTable• HMH Common Core Math interactive whiteboard product• National Geographic Young Explorer interactive whiteboard product• Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness interactive whiteboard product• Channel One News interactive whiteboard product.• Promethean ClassFlow Marketplace lessons for UK markets.• Promethean ClassFlow Marketplace assessments for new UK National Curriculum (inc. SPaG).• Promethean ActivStudio/ActivInspire/ClassFlow Resource LibrariesI also worked on projects for Scholastic, Ruth Miskin Phonics, Oxford University Press, Scott Foresman (Pearson), Riverdeep, Comic Relief, First News.

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for learning modules on NLN and NGfl projects; including instructional design, storyboarding and development.

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Premier Science for Middle Schools; content writing and multimedia design.