An excellent trainer. Flexible in style, approachable and clearly knowledgeable.

Since joining Netskills in 2000, Steve has developed and delivered a wide range of training events. He has key roles in creating our online resources, training postgraduate researchers, supporting candidates on our qualification programmes and producing our publicity materials. Steve's work interests include e-Learning, digital video and animation, mobile technologies and web design.

Prior to joining Netskills, Steve completed a Ph.D. working on HIV vaccines at Nottingham University.

Recent Work

• Virtual openday for Newcastle University (prototype)
• Online phonetics training videos (prototype)
• Creating a portal for our JISC-IRET support project
• Video editing and encoding for blip.TV
• Presentation at the JISC Next Generation Environments Conference 2008
• Podcasting workshop
• Using Google Maps API for an interactive research map

Recent Play

• Trying out Google Chrome
• Choosing Twitter clients (Tweetdeck, Twitterfox and Twhirl)
• Recording interviews with an Edirol R-09HR

From my Blog

• Clay Shirky on the power of social media
• Explaining emergent technologies (with PowerPoint)
• Podcast: Introduction to Podcasting
• Survival of the Twittist