Keith

Keith Burnett I have actually been called far worse - current nickname

I teach Maths at a Further Education College somewhere in the UK. I have been in teaching for about 15 years (must like it) and am now supporting colleagues and students using Information Learning Technology in their teaching and learning.

Current Nickname

  • The Master – thanks to Paul S, the baddies always get the best lines and the nicest costumes. Roger Dalgado was a fine actor (Quatermass, Dr Who and the Avengers), and those suits were wicked...

Past experience

  • Counting containers on Seaforth dock
  • Degree in Physics
  • Research in Cryogenics (superfluid helium, not freezing Californians)
  • Sporadic photography, sometimes even earning a small income
  • PGCE after a period as a part time teacher
  • Various curriculum development projects over the years including unitisation of an Access programme, umpteen short courses and setting up a small Maths workshop (twice)
  • Participation in Intranet developments, contributing to ILT Champion training manual, ILT related staff development

Current Projects

  • Re-energising VLE activity in the College where I work
  • Being creative with interactive whiteboards
  • Simulating the Internetworking Protocol using a dozen 5” by 3” index cards
  • Using a simple online forum to support students taking a Forensic Science module
  • Loads of staff development

Off duty

  • Sleeping
  • Taking photographs
  • Walking by the shore – the tide has to be just on the turn around dusk
  • Reading (Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd, Jenny Uglow)

Other pages

  • Wikipedia article on the astronomer Edmund Neville Nevill – his grandson e-mailed me from Durban on the morning of the Venus transit!
  • Meatball wiki home page