Social & Educational Technologist
Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Lead Community Architect, Emerge at JISC
- Social & Educational Technologist (Independent consultancy) at josiefraser.com
- Social and Learning Technologist at Childnet International
- Convener at The International Edublog Awards
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- ICT & e-Learning Development Officer for the UK at AoC NILTA
- ILT Development Officer at WQEIC
- Assistant Librarian (ILT) at WQEIC
- Sabbatical President at University of York
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- University of York
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Josie Fraser’s Summary
I am passionate about the potential of technologies to facilitate social participation, community development, and formal and informal learning. My work consistently models and promotes the innovative and effective use of web based tools and practices to creatively and inclusively foster community development and online engagement – from site design through to advocacy and management. I have established a reputation as someone who finds imaginative solutions and can galvanise national and international networks.
I have successfully promoted and established an independent international awards programme that recognises and shares excellence and innovation in technology.
I currently chair the UK’s association for cross-sector educational professionals with expertise in web 2.0.
My recent itinerary is online at: http://fraser.typepad.com/blogfolio/
Josie Fraser’s Specialties:
bid writing, blogging, committee & negotiation work, events design & management, information and community architecture, leading and managing teams, public speaking, research and writing, training & workshop design & delivery
Josie Fraser’s Experience
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Lead Community Architect, Emerge
JISC
(E-Learning industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Emerge - £300K major national learning technology research and development project exploring the use of web 2.0 technologies to develop sustainable online communities.
During the course of this project I have played a key role in:
creating the project vision
bid development and pitch
supporting, developing and working iteratively with a national online community
designing and delivering a range of face2face and online events and activities -
Social & Educational Technologist (Independent consultancy)
josiefraser.com
(E-Learning industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
I help promote the use of a wide range of technologies to support and enhance how people communicate, participate, collaborate and learn. I like to solve problems and am great at designing solutions and implementing them.
I work with Government, not-for-profits and industry designing and implementing services that increase social participation, build active, engaged communities, and support formal and informal learning. I specialise in supporting organisations whose communities and networks include under 19 year olds, developing policy and practice which is safe, legal and ethical.
I provide advice, policy and strategy guidance, design and run workshops, seminars, events and training programmes, and undertake research and project work. I've provided consultation for organisations including the British Library; the UK government's Home Office; Google; Reuters; V - youth volunteering; Leap Confronting Conflict; e-skills UK; Enhance Media; Dialogs and Forums. -
Social and Learning Technologist
Childnet International
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Working on a range of national initiatives, including cyberbullying and web 2.0 projects with Government, leading service providers (including Bebo, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, O2, Orange), young people, trades unions, teachers and education leaders.
While working for Childnet International I played a key role in researching, writing and disseminating the UK Governments national cyberbullying guidance (September 2007)
I also led on Childnet's digital literacy research funded by Becta: Social Networking Services for education (January 2007 in progress) http://www.digizen.org/socialnetworking/ -
Convener
The International Edublog Awards
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)
October 2005 — Present (2 years 10 months)
The International Edublog Awards is now in it's fourth year (2008 will see the fifth Awards) - celebrating and highlighting excellence in the educational use of weblogs and social media, drawing attention to the cutting edge educational practice. The Eddies (as they're more affectionately called) are a community based awards programme - finalists and winners are selected by and for the educational community world wide.
This year's ceremony took place across a range of online locations: across three sites in the virtual world platform Second Life, a Ustream Simulcast, chat room, and micro/presence blogging site Twitter. We also used Flickr to document event images, and Facebook event listing. -
ICT & e-Learning Development Officer for the UK
AoC NILTA
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)
March 2006 — December 2006 (10 months)
Promoting and developing the effective and innovative use of ICT and E-learning across the UK’s post-16 sector (Colleges, Adult and Community Education, Offender Learning and Work-Based Learning). Working with Government and a range of national agencies to support the progress of the sector.
* Building and developing online presence and communities
* Modeling good practice in the use of Open Source and Web 2.0
* Working with Government and national agencies
* Designing a range of national consultations
* Personalisation policy and practice: E-portfolio, Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and technology to promote learner voice, choice and active participation
* e-Literacy strategy and delivery: e-Safety, cyberbullying, digital literacies, digital rights, online communities and identities -
ILT Development Officer
WQEIC
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 8 months)
• Direct, deliver and monitor the colleges Information Learing Technology (ILT) policy and targets within the framework of the Colleges strategic and development plans.
• To encourage and support all departments and staff to establish appropriate and innovative uses of ILT.
• Insure ILT materials and projects adhere to national technical, accessibility and interoperability standards.
• Monitor ILT use for quality, effectiveness, sustainability, and Total Cost of Ownership.
• Identify and pursue funding streams which support the College’s ILT work and projects, providing project costings, designs and targets where appropriate
• Manage a range of project budgets
• Manage and administer the College’s online platforms and presence
In addition, I was seconded to work across 6 FE Colleges and 2 Schools, leading and managing a multi-site (60,000+ students) FE VLE implementation and a range of associated collaborative projects. -
Assistant Librarian (ILT)
WQEIC
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 1 month)
As Above: In addition
• Managed the colleges learning centre , all electronic resources and subscriptions. -
Sabbatical President
University of York
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 2 months)
• Provided leadership, direction, and representation for the University’s graduate population
• Advise the Overseas’ Students Association
• Manage the Associations employed staff and a non-sabbatical executive committee of 21.
• Membership of key committees working parties and sub-committees, including Court and Senate.
• Opened and developed working relationships with significant external stakeholders, including initiating and closing financial negotiations.
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Josie Fraser’s Interests:
blogging, childrens rights, collaboration, computer games, digital literacy, digital rights, education, eportfolio, film, Flickr, geotagging, identity, media literacy, networks, online communities, opedID, open access, open source, open standards, Personal Learning Environments, presence, public value, smart phones, social justice, social media, social networks, social software, urban games
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