Laurence

Profile

Co-Founder, Director and lead teacher at iLearnSpace.
ICT coordinator/teacher with 11 years experience. Responsible for grades 1-9 with regard the creation and integration of ICT curricular strategies across the areas.
Tutored the British Columbia High School Diploma for grades 10, 11, 12
Authors and updates school ICT curriculums, mapping against prescribed international standards, so that the skills and knowledge assessed reflect the competencies demanded globally.
Certified designer and web developer with over 30 years experience. Specializes in corporate/brand design, desktop publishing, web applications design and digital video pre/post production.

Core Skills

– Excellent all round understanding of new media, specializing in integrating 21^stCentury technology standards across academic areas.

– Good team player and experienced creative problem solver who can bring solutions to entrenched dilemmas by thinking outside of the box.

– Ability to integrate the professional design environment within school projects thereby enabling students to achieve outstanding results and unique perspectives.

Main Achievements

– Co-founder and lead developer of the internet start-up, CollaborationMundi. CollaborationMundi is a web based content management system and App whose mission statement is to be a community driven tool that galvanizes and facilitates people in finding solutions to the unresolved issues they are facing, (currently in BETA).

– Co-founder and director of iLearnSpace.

– London Film Festival Project:Introduced to underprivileged teenagers the digital film process. This included teaching script writing, storyboarding, digital filming, editing, musical scores, titles and effects.

– Restored abandoned buildings for the purpose of bringing the arts to the community in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tasks included teaching drawing, painting, ceramics and clay sculpturing.

Education

Master of Science (MSc) Digital Technology in Education

University of Edinburgh, 2017

ICT in Primary Education (Distinction)

Institute of Education, University of London, 2015

e-Learning Ecologies (Distinction)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014

Responsive Website Development and Design

University of London & Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013

Associates Degree, HND (HON) Graphic (Communication) Design

Newham College of Art and Design (Middlesex University), 2000

BA (HON) Philosophy

University of Birmingham, 1988

Employment

2006- 2017/ ~ Stance Dual School

ICT coordinator, teacher and consultant.

Responsibilities include teaching ICT to grades 1-9. Tutoring the British Columbia International High School diploma. Research, author and deliver an integrated ICT curricular program across the areas and across the entire school cohort. Advise, procure, maintain and update academic and network software solutions.

2004 – Present / ~ UI/UX Design Consultant

Digital media strategist and content producer.

September 2000 – 04 / ~ BBC Resources, Wood lane, London, W12

Senior Graphic Designer (Publications).

August – Trafalgar square 2000 / ~ The Thames festival

Digital video shoot, NLE, and effects.

This documentary was commissioned to chart the progress of festival participants over a period of eight weeks, culminating with the filming of the festival itself.

January 1996- 97 / ~ Transmute, Brazil (Director of Art)

A community based workshop to transform an abandoned building into a local arts centre.

1995 – 96 / ~ Freelance Designer

Briefs included a wide variety of multi media corporate assignments, mostly revolving around 3D-model design and the production of promotional material for print and film.