Martin Hawksey has held advisory roles within the UK educational technology sector for a number of government funded services. In these roles he has supported staff in the exploration and adoption of innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Martin was an early adopter of Google Apps Script recently been recognised as a Google Developers Expert (GDE) and this tool regularly features in the solutions he publishes on his personal blog.
As Chief Innovation, Technology and Community Officer at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) his work is focused on the development of ALT’s member services exploring how connectivist approaches can be used to support the community. This includes the application of data aggregation and dissemination techniques using existing open source platforms such as WordPress.
Contact details
- Twitter: @mhawksey
- Blog: http://mashe.hawksey.info/
- LinkedIn: mhawksey
- Google+: +MartinHawksey
- Slideshare: mhawksey
- StackOverflow: mhawksey
Plenary talk and workshop session
Martin gave a plenary talk (#P6) on “Hyper-connectEd: Filling the vacuum by switching from blow to suck” from 14.00-14.45 on Thursday 17 July 2014. He also facilitated a workshop session (#A1) on “Rapid Development: Analytics reporting powered by Google Apps Scripts” (session A2) from 16.00-17.30 on Thursday 17 July 2014.