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Martin Bazley, Director of ICT4Learning.com
Martin Bazley taught in Secondary schools for 8 years before joining the Science Museum in 1995, where he worked for 7 years as Internet Projects Manager in the Learning Unit. While working 2 days a week as elearning officer for SEMLAC, he built up the work of ICT4Learning.com.
He also chairs the eLearning Group for Museums, Libraries and Archives.
Principal areas of expertise
Project management, teacher/student recruitment for trialling of existing or proposed resources
Website design, implementation and management
Identification of existing learning resources for specific audiences
Employment and education timeline
| 2003 - 2006 | SEMLAC,
South East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council |
| 1995 - 2003 | Science
Museum, London |
| 1994 - 1995 | King's
College, London, Centre for Educational Studies M.A. (Science Education) |
| 1992 - 1994 | Wheatley
Park School, Oxford Teaching Science and Physics |
| 1991 - 1992 | Aylesbury
Grammar School, Bucks Teaching Physics, Science and IT |
| 1990 - 1991 | Institute
of Physics Publishing, Bristol Editorial and production |
| 1989 - 1990 | Warwick
University, Coventry Studying medieval and early modern European history with Italian |
| 1985 - 1989 | Latymer
Grammar School, Enfield Teaching Physics, Science and IT |
| 1984 - 1985 | Centre
for Science and Maths Education, Chelsea College, London Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Physics and Integrated Science) |
| 1983 - 1984 | Colegio
Americano de Quito, Ecuador Teaching Physics and Chemistry |
| 1980 - 1982 | BBC
Designs Department, London Electronics Design Engineer |
| 1977 - 1980 | Clare
College, Cambridge B.A. Natural Sciences/Electrical Sciences |
| 1969 - 1976 | St. Christopher School, Letchworth, Herts |
Summary
of work as
eLearning Officer with SEMLAC, South East Museum, Library and Archive
Council
During 2005-2006 Martin Bazley worked 2 days a week, including an innovative project for schools developed with financial assistance from South East Grid for Learning called Victorian Learning Journey. The project took a new approach to supporting learning about the Victorians, based around a physical journey by a Victorian photographer around the South East of England, supported by videoconferencing, interactive talkboards and short video clips. One aim of the project was to encourage more schools to make the most of the learning opportunities offered by museums, librares and archives in their area.
The previous year's work included the Kent elearning initiative, working with 14 museums in Kent and Medway to develop elearning opportunities and models of good practice.
Summary
of work as
Internet Projects Manager in the Learning Unit at the Science Museum 1995-2003
STEM
(Students' and Teachers' Educational Materials) project
Martin
Bazley coordinated educational activity for this award-winning Internet-based
project since its inception. It featured a competition
to stimulate production by students, teachers and others, of web-based
resources to help others make better educational use of the Science Museum
and its sister museums, NMPFT in Bradford and NRM in York. This has
meant visiting schools to assist with web production by students and teachers,
running web-production workshops for students at the Museum, reviewing
resources submitted and liaising with authors to improve final submissions,
identifying and contacting potential teachers/schools, internal liaison
with Sponsorship and Marketing and coordinating project activity as a
whole. Sample resources and more information available at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/education/stem
COMO
(Challenge of Materials Online) project
This
project had the aim of stimulating production by students, teachers and
others, of web-based resources relating to materials, usually based around
visits to industrial or other materials-related sites. Work on this project
has many elements in common with the STEM project. Sample resources and
more information available at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/education/como
Science
Learning Network projects
Martin Bazley worked on a number of different projects for
SLN, including evaluation of existing resources (involving log analysis,
in-classroom observation and group interviews) and coordinating production
of web-based resources, including those at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/pieces
More information on SLN is available at www.sln.org
NotSchool
This project, run by Ultralab with funding from DfES, aims
to provide a supportive, motivating environment to re-engage teenagers
into learning, who are out of school in the long term for a variety of
reasons. The Science Museum provided input in the Science and Technology
area, through a rolling programme of content and through simply keeping
in touch with 'researchers' via the Think.com environment. More information
available at www.notschool.net
Internet
courses for teachers
Martin Bazley set up and run a number of courses for
teachers, including Writing for the Web,
The Internet for Primary Teachers and IT for animation and interactivity.
Courses were well attended and attracted highly positive feedback.
Teachers
Advisory Panel
Martin Bazley ran the TAP, recruiting teachers
to ensure a balanced mix across phases and subject specialisms, devising
and monitoring evaluation sessions and developing the teacher contact
database.
Updated 3 July 2006