Previously Senior Teacher, Head of Learning Resources, teacher of English and linguistics, Webmanager at Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon UK

Currently

Providing an educational consultancy including in-service training, resources design and website management.

• Editor and manager, Cambridgeshire Education Portal
• Member of the Association of Teachers Websites ATW
• Webmaster for History through Hinchingbrooke, Samuel Pepys' Diary (www.pepys.info); www.shelfordfeast.co.uk ; Language in Use ;
• Writing online materials for information literacy
  
• Designing an education Portal for Cambridgeshire
• Preparing for giving training courses in information literacy for Lighthouse Training

Recent Publications

• Getting the Buggers to Learn (2nd edition) (Continuum 2009)
• Getting The Buggers toFind Out (Continuum 2008)
• First Aid Kit for Teachers (Continuum pub May 2007)
• Implementing a whole school Information Literacy programme (SfE pub Summer 2006)
• Getting the Buggers to Learn (Continuum - pub Spring 2006, 2nd edition 2009)
• Grey's Education Miscellany (Continuum - 2005)
• "Adding Challenge, Improving Engagement - ICT English" (SfE/Tribal 2005)
• ICT and English - co-writing materials for NATE and BECTA.(2004-5)
• "Meat or Veggie - Internet Research Lessons" and "Disaster Survival Project" for ZigZag Education 2004
• "100 Essential Lists for Teachers" (pub Continuum March 2003, revised Autumn 2005)
• Lesson schemes of Work for ProQuest, Learn.co.uk Learnthings etc
• "Newspapers in English Teaching" for National Association of English Teachers
• Language in Use - English Language / Linguistics Website
• Samuel Pepys Diary website
• Hinchingbrooke House - time capsule of English History website
• "The Internet in School" (2nd edition pub Continuum April 2001)

Recent Training given (selected list)

• "Implementing Information Literacy In Your School" Lancashire branch of the School Library Association (Nov 2008)
• "Working with teachers on the information literacy curriculum," for School Library Association
• "Planning for variety in teaching and learning," for Filton College, Bristol (March 2006)
• "Using Information Skills to Improve your Learning Resources Centre" for the Lighthouse training organisation 2002-5
• "English and ICT" for the Cambridgeshire Partnership Graduate Training Programme.
• "Information Literacy in the Resources Centre" School Libraries Association Annual Conference (June 2005)
• "Information Literacy in your school" for Tower Hamlets LEA

History

• Writing a regular "How To" column in the Times Educational Supplement (2007-8)
• Consultant for BECTA on information literacy (Autumn 2008)
• Writing for SfE, BECTA and NATE on English and ICT
• 2003 - present, freelance education consultant, trainer and writer; Portal Manager, Cambridgeshire Education Portal
• Consortium steering committee & school coordinator, E2B Broadband project
• Training on School Learning Resources Centres for the SFE training organisation (1998-2002)
• Wrote The Internet in School (two editions1998-2001, Continuum)
• School coordinator for Comenius European project.
• Education Advisor for AngliaCampus
• Part of the Schools Online Project 1995-97
• 1995-2003 School Webmaster. First UK Secondary School on The Web, 1.2.95.
• 1992-94 Coordinator for Huntingdonshire TVEI Consortium, responsible for Flexible Learning
• "The Newspaper File" with Alysoun Hayhoe Cambridge University Press 1991
• 1988-89 On Teacher Exchange to Whitefriars College, Melbourne, Australia.
• 1983-2003 variously Head of Lower School English, Deputy Head of English, Head of Learning Resources, INSET Coordinator etc, Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon.
• 1976-83 English Teacher at Netherhall School, Cambridge.
• 1975-76 English teacher with Kursverksamheten in Fagersta, Sweden, teaching adults English as a foreign language.
• 1971-75 Bede College, Durham University. Bachelor of Education 1975.