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Rebecca Ferriday, BA, PGCE, QTLS
Coopers Cottage, 143a Charlestown Road, St Austell, PL25 3NN,
United
Kingdom
Phone: 01726 75217 Mobile: 07749404833Twitter: BexFerriday
Nationality: British Date of Birth: 21/05/1970Email:
[email protected]
Objective: Looking for a position as a Learning Technologist to
develop creative digital teaching,learning and research solutions
for organisations that focus on innovation within the education and
training fields.
Education and Qualifications2009-ongoing: International Masters
Programme
University of Plymouth2010: Subject Learning Coach
Qualification
Excellence Gateway2010: PGC Teaching in Multi User Virtual
Environments
University of Reading2009: FERL Practioners Programme (in
Delivering Online Learning)2009: European Pedagogical ICT (EPICT)
Licence Facilitator
Certification
2007-2008: Certificates awarded by LearnDirect and CTAD for
Competency inOnline Tuition and Mentoring
2006: Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post Compulsory
Education)University of Exeter
2005: Level 4 Certificate for Adult Literacy Subject
SpecialistsCity & Guilds
2004: Level 4 Certificates in in Further Education Teaching
(Stages I and II)City & Guilds
2003: D32/D33 Assessors and Verifiers AwardsCity &
Guilds
1988-1991: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Graphic DesignFalmouth
College of Art and Design
1988: 3 A Levels (A and B grades)Liskeard Comprehensive
School
1986: 11 O and AO levels (A, B and C grades)Liskeard
Comprehensive School
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Skills and Attributes
Teaching and Presentation: Plans, delivers and assesses a
variety of pre-service and specialist in-service teacher
training
courses at FE and HE levels (from levels 2 to 7) using both
traditional classroom and onlinemethods of delivery Delivers staff
training and development sessions (both face to face and online)
covering a
range of topics from effective lesson planning and preparation
for observation, to usingsocial networking sites and web 2.0 tools
in education and training
Regularly speaks at conferences to both national and
international audiences via a variety of live and virtual
mediums
Designed and delivered t he worlds first virtual -world based
teacher training programme
Course Design and Production:
Designed and developed functional software and creative
eLearning materials in a variety of formats, both as standalone
resources and for use within a Virtual Learning Environment
Designed and written blended and eLearning courses at a range of
FE / HE levels and in avariety of subjects using Xerte, Adobe
eLearning Suite, Camtasia, Moodle and SharePoint
Successfully taken HE courses through the University of Plymouth
validation process Written presentations, teachers notes, schemes
of work and lesson plans for widely
distributed content delivery
Project Management and Involvement:
Managed a variety of small, medium and large; national and
international projects, withboth public and private sector clients
and partners
Sat on and chaired steering groups, with experience in all areas
of project management,from initiation and application through to
planning, control and people
Extensive experience of resource procurement and finance
Computing: Highly proficient in using Windows and Mac OS,
Office, iWorks, Photoshop, KompoZer,
WordPress, Second Life and in the use of Web 2.0 (and emerging
3.0) technologies forenterprise and education
Experience in HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Flash, Cocoa, Linux server
management via cPanel Very quick to pick up new applications,
operating systems and interfaces Maintain a keen appreciation and
awareness of emerging technologies and cutting edge
educational applications
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Employment Summary:Current Employer: Cornwall CollegeJob Title:
Learning TechnologistRoles and Responsibilities:
Manage and ensure the smooth running of the corporation's
Virtual Learning Environment:Moodle. (and currently overseeing the
corporation's move from Moodle version 1.9 - 2.3)
Manage a team of ILT Advocates at each of the college's seven
campuses Maintaining an empathic and mutually supportive
relationship with the institution's IT
Services team. Delivering ILT training to staff in a variety of
ways: via electronic ba seline briefings and face
to face delivery Write and publish a half-termly electronic ILT
newsletter to all staff Designed and implemented virtual couse
files ; e ncouraging staff to use the VLE as an
electronic space for course documentation Championing and
implementing other ILT strategies such as ePortfolios and
virtual
classrooms Co-developer and implementer of the corporate ILT and
eLearning strategies, overseeing the
roll-out of the development of ILT and /eLearning across the
college. Manager of the colleges Moodle Medal scheme Author,
developer and implementer of eLearning and Blended Learning courses
for a range
of curriculum areas within Further and Higher Education. I have
also produced onlinematerials for other institutions such as
Hibernia College, the NHS, TRIBAL and ShelterBox
Project Manager responsible for developing Cornwall College
Island on Second Life andresearching the potential of using virtual
worlds as an educational tool and resource.
Author of national briefing paper and acceptable use policy for
LSIS-funded projectexamining safe use of Facebook as a teaching and
learning tool in 13-19 education
Author of online staff development (CPD) packages
2003-2010 Cornwall CollegeLead Teacher (School of Education and
Training)Roles and Responsibilities:
Course Manager, author, teacher and assessor for the Level 5
Diploma in Teaching English(Literacy) in the Lifelong Learning
Sector using blended learning methodology
Author, teacher and assessor of the Level 3 Award in Preparing
to Teach in the LifelongLearning Sector (PTLLS) and the Diploma in
Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (DTLLS)
Part of the Quality Unit team, responsible for the graded
observation of in-service staff Lead Practitioner Researcher for
mobile learning project (MoLENET) between 2008-2010, co-
managing consortium of Cornwall College and four secondary
schools in Cornwall funded byLSC
Selected as team member in Pathfinder remodelling (change
management) project run byPiscari and funded by LLUK Involved in
the ESF funded ICE House Project, working with ateam of
practitioners and researchers to look at innovation, creativity and
enterprise in
learning and development, with responsibility for maintaining
and populating the ICE Housewebsite.
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