Graham McElearney

Learning Technologist

Customer Services

Telephone: (0114) 22 23040

Responsibilities

Manager of myEcho lecture recording service
Manager of Electronic Voting System service
Podcasting, video podcasting and screencasting support
General advice and support in e-learning, media and multimedia production, Web 2.0 technologies, pedagogical approaches to using learnig technology

Biography

After spending several years working as an archaeologist, I decided to exchange a life of lying around in muddy ditches for one of working in IT in the early 1990s. After a stint of database programming at the University, I started working in what was then called “computer aided learning” in 1992. This was located in Academic Computing Services as was, and then latterly the Staff Development Unit. In 1999 I became a video and multimedia producer in the newly formed Learning Development and Media Unit (now LeTS), where I spent 11 years working on a wide range of development projects supporting the learning and teaching across the Institution by producing bespoke video and multimedia packages, ranging from Archaeology to Medicine, and pretty much everything in between.

I joined CiCS in February 2010, working in the Learning and Teaching Support section of Customer Services. I am currently involved in growing a number of services, including the myEcho lecture recording service, and our newly acquired electronic voting system (EVS). I also support the use of podcasting and related technologies, and as part of that work I am on the steering group for the Higher Education Academy funded Media Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG). Other outward facing activities include being the Instutional representative for the Association for Learning Technology, and I am also a co-editor of the Association’s Newsletter, ALT-N. I still work closely with colleagues from LeTS, being currently engaged in the rolling out of our new virtual learning environment, MOLE2, and the establishment of a new student facing creative media suite, based in the Information Commons.

Outside of work I am a keen musician, playing in a number of local bands, and am the owner of a 13 year old partly-disabled dog.