Having spent nearly 20 years in 'front-line' education, as Teacher, Advisory Teacher (IT) and Deputy Head, I am currently a Senior Learning Technologist  at the University of South Wales. My previous role at University of Wales Newport, before the merger was as 'Web Based Online Learning Environment Developer' and I have also done some part-time lecturing at the University where I taught the Curriculum Studies, ICT module in the BA(Primary) Education Initial Teacher Training course.

Most recently I was a Year 3/4 teacher and Deputy Head in a Primary School in Monmouthshire, where I was the IT coordinator, some time network technician, staff IT trainer and webmaster. I have been teaching in Gloucester, Cardiff and Monmouthshire since the early 90s and started out with BBCs and Acorn 3000s!!!

I have a wide interest in both Open Source Software and Open Education (Resources and Practice) and in sharing expertise through community practices such as these Moodle forums.

Other interests are reading (particularly Lee Child, JRR Tolkien, Clive Cussler and CJ Sansom at the moment), music (choral singing, playing both piano and trombone - but not at the same time!) and sport (playing cricket, watching basketball/NFL - and of course, being Welsh, the rugby!!!)