Burnt Pixel – Page 5 – Learning Designer and Video Artist

Education, VUW

VUW Continuing Education Course – Save and Share your Digital Photos

A course I wrote and taught for the VUW Continuing Education department. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Tutorials: Brighten up an image – using Curves and Levels Retouching – with eye colour and makeup Redeye Removal…

April 20, 2009

Other

Fonts

Fonts I have made. Free to use. Download here. Llicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

February 16, 2009

Brooklyn School, Education, Technobabble

Brooklyn School Laptop Project

A website for researching getting a laptop suite for Brooklyn School. An example of an early attempt to have 1:1 computer use. I think we managed to get a set for 1 between 2 students. I was also preempting the…

September 3, 2008

Education, University of Waikato

The Monkey Arm Project

A collaborative project for my online teaching degree. A whole lot of work was put into this, perhaps more then there should have been.

July 29, 2008

Education, Learning Design

Piloting Tablet PCs in Primary Schools

A project with HP NZ and LEA. This pre-dated the iPad. We found that pen based work was particularly useful for dyslexic students. But the laptops and their charging were still quite cumbersome. A big focus was on the creative…

May 7, 2007

Education, Learning Design

C.H.A.O.S – Children have ownership of schooling

A video I made showing the teaching process at Brooklyn Primary School, Wellington. I had a cold during the voice-over.

June 5, 2006

Education, Ripley St Thomas

Student Work: Claymation

Output from a workshop on animation with students from Ripley St Thomas School in Lancaster, UK.

January 31, 2006

Other

Ashton Memorial, Lancaster 2005

Ashton Memorial, Lancaster, UK

December 31, 2005

Art, Other

Stop Motion Video – Lancaster

A stop-motion video made with friends on a cold day in Lancaster, UK. (Source: )

December 11, 2005

Other

NUMUSIC Festival 2005 (Stavanger)

I did security and roadie work for Karlheinz Stockhausen’s performances. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (DE) (3 days, 6 concerts, 9 works).FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY 26-28.08STOCKHAUSEN A LIVE EXCLUSIVE : AN ELECTRONIC LEGACY3 days, 6 concerts, 9 works, in an exclusively designed concert venue. Aug 26…

August 26, 2005

Other, Scripts and Code

Christmas Software CD I gave out to friends.

_______Alan's CD Megamix________ Everything is freeware or Open Source! Description of some of the files (Print this page): Administration Adaware - Rids spy programs Registry Cleaner - Cleans pokey Info in registry Startup - Control What starts up and doesnt…

December 18, 2001

General, Other

LEA – Worked as Instructional Designer

October 31, 2001

Learning Design

Curriculum Integration section for TKI

As part of my job at LEA in Wellington was to build the Curriculum Integration section for the TKI website. The concepts were still relatively new to the wider teaching public and this was a resource for those beginning to…

September 30, 2001

Education, Learning Design

A Flash animation I did for TKI

Certainly quite busy but it was high-tech in its time and I kinda like the font work.

August 27, 2001

Freelance, Projects

Business Card Design – You have to start somewhere.

Business cards I made when I was doing freelance graphic design back in the ’90s.

October 31, 1999

Other

The first Computer I brought

The first computer I ever brought. It ended costing me twice the amount after I paid off the hire purchase. My cellphone is of course more powerful now.