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Pen ListerMSc MA MBCS FHEA penlister@penworkswww.penworks.net | skype: penworkz | twitter: @penwo

Education & associations

Ph.D. studies (current), University ofMaltaMA(Dist) Learning & Teaching in HigherEducation, 2013, London MetropolitanUniversity

MSc(Dist) Multimedia Systems, 2006,London Metropolitan UniversityPGCert(Dist) LTHE, 2009, LondonMetropolitan UniversityMember of the British Computer SocietyFellow of the Higher Education AcademySEDA Web Based L&T

AchievementsICiTY conf. presentation 2016, PhD study2015; Property purchase Malta 2015;ePIC presentation 2014; MA(Dist) 2013;CELTelearning.org 2012-13; SocialMetmedia project 2011-12; Internet Profilesbusiness seminars 2010; L & T conf.presentation 2009

Expertise

Adobe:

PhotoShop, Illustrator,Dreamweaver, Premier Pro, Acrobat Pro

A/V: Audacity, iMovie, Reason, AbletonLive, QuickTime Pro, HandbrakeWeb:

ExpressionEngine, WordPress,Drupal, Sugar, Moodle, phpMyAdmin,IA, Grunt, Git, domains, hostingO/S:

Win XP/7/8; Mac OS; AndroidCode:(X)HTML/HTML5, CSS3, SCSS,RSS/XML, jQuery, PHP, MySqlUsers:

Experience, requirements,testing, personas, journeysSocial :

Connectivity, content,facilitation, admin, platforms, RDF Meta

InterestsSocial web, tech-watching, vintageguitars, songwriting, ambientelectronica, music composition, writing,surfing the web, street culture, semanticweb, responsive design, future of digitalproducts and IPR, big data for learning.

ReferencesAcademic and professional referencesare available on request for Malta andthe UK.

Research

Evaluating Smart City Learning,ICiTY, 201621stCentury Competencies andCommunities in Higher Education,ePIC, 2014

Recent roles and experience

Senior Lecturer Senior Blended Learning Facil itator

Developing teaching and learning strategies for uses of technology. Researching casestudies and best practice for university policy and guidelines development on IPR,Open Educational Resources, social media and online content for teaching & learningresearch and academic recruitment. Creation of the e-Matrix web resource atwww.celtelearning.org.

Lecturing

Lecturing and supervision in Media and Communications and Digital Media -ecommerce, social media, video and web design/development (undergraduate andpostgraduate level).

Strategic Programme Office

Engaged by the SPO to utilise social media and a variety of other mechanisms toengage and communicate with all stakeholders in the large-scale internal community aLondon Metropolitan University for the process of change.

Academic Marketing

Working with academic staff and students to promote courses and (faculty) schoolprofiles for recruitment and audience engagement online, through content strategy forgeneration, resource development and sharing.

Freelance Web Strategies projects

SME educational and business client work - technical development, social and contenstrategies. Work can also involve training client staff to effectively utilise their web CMSplanning content delivery and sharing to social channels.

Employment history

2009 - 2015Senior Lecturer, Senior Blended Learning Facilitator, CELT, London MetropolitanUniversity. Development of strategic e-learning online resources, working with universfaculties to facilitate LMS and social media technologies for teaching & learning andacademic community engagement. Seminars and lecturing in TEL.

2006 - 2012Lecturer & Web Consultant, London Metropolitan University. Teaching theory andpractical sessions in E, F, UG & PG study at Faculty of Life Sciences & Computing andFaculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Technical Lead for the WoW Agency.Technical, development, social media work for the VC, Strategic Programme Office,Marketing, Communications and UK Recruitment.

2003 - 2006Freelance Digital Developer, working with own clients developing a variety of digitalproducts and services including CD Rom and DVD authoring, Video production, CMSWebsites, Print Materials.

PreviousSenior Sales Executive (Shifting Gear, Camden, London UK)Sculptors Assistant (Michael Mahoney, London UK)Research Interviewer (Audience Selection, Pergamon Press, London UK)Singer-songwriter (Rough Trade, Chrysalis, Blanco y Negro, London UK)

CurrentPhD studies, Faculty of Education, Leadership for Learning and Innovation, UniversityMalta, thesis title: Designing Effective Smart City LearningConsultancy work with Maltese training entities for quality assurance and coursecurricular developmentFreelance web, e-learning and social media projects

Learning Craft CMS

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Pen Lister: Supporting Statement

Pen Lister MSc MA MBCS FHEA | Supporting Statement 2016 | penlister@penworks.net | page

General Academic Supporting Statement

I worked from late summer 2006 until May 2015 at London Metropolitan University, having been offered employment thereafter gaining MSc(Dist) Multimedia Systems in 2005-6. In 2009 I gained a PGCert(Dist) in Learning and Teaching in HigherEducation, and in 2013 gained MA(Dist) in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. I am also SEDA accredited for WebBased Learning and Teaching. I am a Member of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Higher EducationAcademy. In 2015 I finally resigned my post in order to relocate to Malta and worked briefly for Price Waterhouse Coopers

as academic lead at their training academy in Qormi. However, I eventually decided to pursue full time Ph.D. studies at theUniversity of Malta with a project that was of great interest to me my title being Designing Effective Smart City Learning.My supervisor is Dr Philip Bonanno of Faculty of Education, Department of Leadership for Learning Innovation, University ofMalta. My external supervisor is Prof John Cook (Professor of Learning Innovation), Department of Arts and CulturalIndustries, University of the West of England, UK.

Teaching

Whilst at London Met I lectured in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing, School of Computing (Multimedia) andFaculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Media, Culture and Communications. I lectured and led workshops(including module leading) in a variety of creative and technical digital media areas for Extended, Foundation,Undergraduate and Post Graduate level study. Subjects included web design, development and multimedia uses, softwareand technologies, interactive technology theory and practice, and academic skills. I also taught employability for digitalmedia at final year undergraduate and post-graduate level. I regularly made use of Google chat, Facebook and Skype toprovide support to students (and staff) outside of workshop or lecture time. This proved popular with many.I have morethan 3000 tutor hours experience (please refer to teaching history for details).

Technology

My software proficiencies include HTML5, XHTML, RSS/XML, CSS3, SASS/SCSS, Git, jQuery libraries, PHP & MySql, CMSsuch as Wordpress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, video work with Adobe Premier Pro/QuickTime Pro/iMovie, some AfterEffects and Flash, Dreamweaver, Sublime Text, Photoshop and Illustrator, music and audio using Reason, Audacity,Ableton Live, plus other assorted software and freeware. I work with Windows and Mac OS and am fully proficient in Officesuite applications. I am especially interested in responsive web design techniques and open source solutions.

E-learning

In 2009 I became a fractional (.6 FTE) Senior Lecturer and Senior Blended Learning Facilitator at the Centre for theEnhancement of Learning and Teaching, at London Metropolitan University. I have worked with many faculties andmembers of staff to encourage and advise on creative pedagogy and uses of technology, including Blackboard Vista andBB9.1. I have developed a variety of applications for use by those involved in e-learning, most recently the

www.celtelearning.orgresource. I have also designed and developed social media training and workshops for academicstaff. I also have strong experience with Moodle both to implement and to use.

Other University Roles

! I worked on the London Met Online Presence Project as a web consultant for the Head of Marketing, advising and overseeingspecifications and deliverables for the university new website and liaising with an external design agency.

! I worked with the London Met Strategic Programme Office on change management init iatives, for Undergraduate and PostgraduateReviews and Student and Staff Charters.

! I created and managed SocialMet, a large-scale social media project, working with student teams utilising social media to engage theuniversity internal community.

! I acted as social media consultant for then Vice ChancellorMalcolm Gillies, who requested me to advise on strategies for social mediaimplementation, integration and policy for the university.

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I was significantly involved in the work experience agency in the Faculty of Computing from 2009-2013, (the WoW Agency), acting asTechnical Lead & Student Development

for many web based and digital media projects and leading user experience and socialmedia evaluation studies.

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I have a music and media background, having enjoyed some success as an aspiring professional songwriter andperformer, financed for much of the Eighties by Geoff Travis and Rough Trade, as well as various major Record Labelsincluding Chrysalis. I also have extensive freelance experience as a website and media developer over many years.

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Pen Lister: Digital Portfolio

Pen Lister MSc MA MBCS FHEA | Digital Portfolio 2016 | page

Relevant work and digital projects

NB All work here is created and developed by myself, unless otherwise indicated. In the case of the WoW Agency,

I am technical or project lead, working with student teams.

Academic

o Evaluating Smart City Learning

, proceedings of the ICiTY conference, University of Malta inApril 2016. My ResearchGate pre-published version is available at:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301548614_Evaluating_Smart_City_Learning

o Presentation for ICiTY Conference https://speakerdeck.com/penworks/evaluating-smart-city-learningo

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Century Competencies and Communities in Higher Education

, proceedings of the2014 ePIC conference at Greenwich University, available at:http://www.epforum.eu/sites/www.epforum.eu/files/2014%20Proceedings.pdf

Strategic E-learning for CELT at London Met

o CELT eMatrix sandbox development 2014 http://sandbox.celtelearning.org

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CELT eMatrix 2010-2013 http://www.celtelearning.orgo The University Blended Learning Resources Weblearn site 2010, (Blackboard Vista)

Learning and Teaching

o New Consumer Creators 2014 a presentation for seminar of social content communitieshttp://www.penworks.net/work/entry/new-consumer-creators

o SpeakerDeck presentation collection (recent) https://speakerdeck.com/penworks

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Mediabank Vimeo 2014 - authentic academic marketing videos, created with student teamhttps://vimeo.com/mediabank/videos

o Mediabank website hub showcase http://londonmet.penworks.net/fssh/mediabank/

o BSc assessed work showcase for Faculty of Computing show 2011http://londonmet.penworks.net/cu3001_2011/the-show.html

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Developing your Internet Profile 2010 Seminar http://www.penworks.net/work/entry/developing-your-internet-profile

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Prezi account 2010 2012 http://prezi.com/user/penlister/

o Social Media in Learning and Teaching 2009 http://londonmet.penworks.net/l&t/l&t01.html

o Ustream TV account 2008 - 2010 (live streaming video for learning and teaching)http://www.ustream.tv/channel/boshtv

Personal Web Presence

o Portfolio website http://www.penworks.netof note are workand creativesections

o PhD blog http://phd.penworks.net

o MA Research Dissertation http://webteach.penworks.net/maresearch

o Webteach Blog http://webteach.penworks.net

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Twitter http://www.twitter.com/penworkso LinkedIn https://mt.linkedin.com/in/penlister

Assorted multimedia and website work (examples)

o Netfarms a Wordpress multi-site initiative for students and SME clients http://www.netfarms.eu

o Baby Saatchi, a visual scrape of Facebook page http://www.babysaatchi.com

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Reporting Live an experiment in news syndication to web or visual displayshttp://www.reportinglive.co.uk

o We Do Kool Not Kute, Art photography, Camden, 2013 (video)http://www.penworks.net/create/entry/we-do-kool-not-kute

o Dystopia, Trxtr at the Signal Gallery (video)http://www.penworks.net/create/entry/trxtr-at-the-signal-gallery

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Pen Lister: Digital Portfolio

Pen Lister MSc MA MBCS FHEA | Digital Portfolio 2016 | page

SocialMet (large scale university social media project, 2011)

o Blog: http://blog.socialmet.co.uk

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Facebook: http://fb.me/socialmeto Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/socialmet

o The SocialMet Feedback Book: http://www.socialmet.co.uk/feedback

WoW Agency projects of note (student/graduate work experience 2009-2013)

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Enterprise website Bridging Site solution 2011, Marketing & Communications, London Met

o In depth website usability evaluations for Marketing & Comms, London Met, 2009, 2011

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The Memory 2010 social memory project, Peter Gabriel (NDA project)

o User experience and functionality testing, Comic Relief

o Video promo editing and web, EMI/Mute

Resources and ReadingI use a significant amount of online resources to keep up with ideas, thinking, practice and uses of technology increativity, industry and the higher education community. I also have a small collection of favourite current academicreading in relation to future thinking and related issues and trends.

Key Texts

! Barnett, R, 2000, Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity, Philadelphia PA USA, Open UniversityPress

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Boys, J & Ford, P (ed), 2008, The E-Revolution and Post Compulsory Education London UK, JISC

! Katz, R (ed), 2008, The Tower and The Cloud, Berkeley CA USA, Educause

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Marton, F & Booth, S, 1997, Learning and Awareness, Laurence Erlbaum Associates

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Schiltz, M, Truyen, F & Coppens, H, 2007, Cutting the Trees of Knowledge: Social Software, InformationArchitecture, and Their Epistemic Consequences, Thesis Eleven, Number 89, May 2007: 94114

Online Sources

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The next web!

Readwrite!

Techcrunch! Smashing Magazine!

Noupe!

Specky Boy!

Expression Enginecommunity

! Abduzeedo

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Vimeo videoschool!

AE, PSD Tuts!

Webdesign Tuts! LevelUp Tuts!

Creative Cow!

A List Apart!

Wired! New Media Consortium! EdReformer/Getting Smart

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Educause!

Edudemic!

Technology for Teachers! Inside Higher Education!

University of the People!

Facebook in Education!

Personal social networks

Technology platforms currently of interest or use regularly

! Backupify!

Slack!

Hootsuite!

Instagram! Prezi! Speakerdeck!

Soundcloud!

Vimeo

! Cacoo!

Evernote!

Google Apps!

Blurb! Trello! Aurasma!

7Scenes!

Blippar

! Tumblr!

Medium!

Paperli!

Zapier! IFTTT! Gephi!

WordPress visual plugins!

RSS tools/scripts

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Pen Lister MSc MA MBCS FHEA | Teaching History 2006-2014 | penlister@penworks.net | page

Pen Lister: Teaching History 2006-2014A full list of all modules taught for Faculty (now School) of Computing and Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities,London Metropolitan University is available on request.

! HND Higher National Diploma, usually a two year full time course! FDSc - A two year f/t foundation Science degree programme to enter final year of BSc! Year Zero for students who do not have formal entry qualifications (e.g. A levels or BTEC) to gain entry to

the four year Extended Degree Computer Science. It serves as an immersive foundation year! Undergraduate BA, BSc, BEd most undergraduate programmes in the UK are three years! Post Graduate MA or MSc programmes either one year f/t or two year p/t masters programmes

Course Taught Period EQF Level

MA Media and Communications 2013-2014 7

MSc Multimedia 2007-2009 7

MA Digital Media 2009-2010 7

MSc ICT Consultancy 2009-2010 7

MSc Computer Animation 2006-2011 7

BSc Multimedia 2006-2011 6

BSc Technology and Multimedia Applications 2006-2010 6

BSc Games 2006-2010 6

BSc Computer Animation 2006-2010 6

BA Digital Media 2009-2012 6

BA Media Studies 2009-2012 6

BSc Media and Communications 2013/2014 6

BEd Education 2007-2008 6

Extended Degree Computer Science 2006-2010 5/6

FDSc Creative Technologies 2006-2009 5

HND Computing 2009-2010 5

World of Work Agency, working with students and graduates on commercial web andmedia projects

2009-2013 Professionallevel work