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HelenWhitehead.com
Helen
Whitehead is a digital writer, editor and elearning specialist
who
has been working with
online media for over 20 years. Her expertise is in the innovative and
appropriate use of digital media for narrative, creative writing, education
and elearning. She has led collaborative Web writing projects and taught
multimedia writing skills to a variety of groups both online and offline,
from schoolchildren to lifelong learners. She is particularly interested
in the multi-dimensional structures of digital texts and narratives,
in making digital writing accessible to new readers, especially in the
education sector, and in facilitating online communities. She was Education
and Training Manager for the trAce Online Writing Centre for several
years, and managed the trAce Online Writing School. She has been E-Learning
Facilitator at the National College for School Leadership at its headquarters
in Nottingham. Helen is currently a Learning Technologist on the Adelie
Project in Professor Gilly Salmon's Beyond Distance Research Alliance
at the University of Leicester and a freelance e-learning consultant,
tutor and writer.
She is Editor of Kids on the Net and the eTeachers' Portal. Her blog is Periodic Fable.
Creative CV
Shopping
List
An interactive love story based around a basket of groceries and a meal,
2002
Web
Warp & Weft
This thought-provoking
website examines the congruence between the making of textiles and the
making of the Web. Surprising similarities are highlighted and celebrated.
A variety of Web-based technologies are used to explore the words and
the processes used in creative and commercial fields. Featuring
work from poets Joyce Lambert and Jeremy Duffield, presented on the Web
for the first time. A
project commissioned for the UK Year of the Artist 2000/2001, launched
17th September 2001.
Solstice:
The Longest Day, the Shortest Day
A welter of feelings on two very different days. Written for the trAce
Longest
Day, Shortest Day project, June 21st 2000
Time
to Write
An exploration of the inspiration and frustrations associated with
finding time for creativity. July 1999.Written
for the trAce My Millennium
project, July 1999
Mirror,
Mirror
A triangular-shaped hypertext representing one person's spiritual journey
through the seven steps of searching, learning, openness, meditation,
inspiration, yielding and discovery, ending in the ultimate spiritual
battle. Developed during Christy Sheffield Sanford's Writing for the Web
Workshop for trAce, May 1999.
Visions
and Dreams
What balance of heredity and upbringing makes us what we are? How
far will sisterly love go? A hypertext fiction "hypernovel"
exploring the themes of motherhood, justice, genetics and spirituality.
September 1998
Cave
Bytes
A hypertext fiction based on the sandstone caves under Nottingham, by
H M Whitehead and L J Winson, produced for the Day
in the Life of Nottingham arts project, October 1997
The
Brawl
A hypertext story: a crucial event
seen by seven people with very different viewpoints. October 1996
Cave
Bytes
Commissioned for the NOW97 Arts
Festival: A hypertext fiction based on Nottingham’s sandstone caves, with
L J Winson, part of a Day in the Life of Nottingham, October 1997
Barely
A Life
on the Mother Millennia
Site: Carolyn Guyer's collection of linked works on the subject of Mother,
1999
A patch on The
Noon Quilt
from the trAce Online Writing Community.
Collected between 23rd October and 31st December 1998, published as a
book in November 1999
Road Rage
in Anatomy,
July 1998 (features)
Father Garnet's Peace
also in Obsessions:
"short stories from manic writers". July 1997
Create your own fairy tale
in Anatomy,
July 1997 (fiction)
The
Monster Motel
Collaborative children's writing project designed by illustrator Mark
Burgess. Over 5000 children world-wide have contributed since January
1999 and the site is now database-generated. Ongoing.
Kids'
Castle
Collaborative children's project based on Nottingham Castle in 1480. Designed
by Mark Burgess and the children's writer Philip Ardagh, it includes a
variety of interactive writing activities and galleries to display children's
work. Begun October 1999 and ongoing.
Kids
on the Net
An interactive website for
children's writing with contributors and participants (writers and children)
worldwide.
From May 1998
Daisy
and the Intergalactic Travelling Salesmen
(with Jamila Gavin) Commissioned for the
1999
Cheltenham Festival of Literature. A website story written with classes
from 26 schools in the UK, USA and Australia. October 1999.
Farewell to MGB
school-based
community "online quilt" for Creative Partnerships
The eTeachers'
Portal and Writers for the Future in the
Classroom
(NESTA funded project)
The Adelie Project
developing skills in using learning technologies at the University
of Leicester
for more see WritingElearning.com and Reach Further Ltd.
2007
Forthcoming: Workshop
presenter, ALT-C, September 2007
Presenter,
N6 Seminar, University of Leicester, 18 June 2007
Tutor: Season of Inspiration online writing course, March-May 2007
Convenor, The Barefoot E-Moderator (four online two-week courses between
February and July 2007)
Trainer: Carpe Diem Workshops in course design (13 two-day workshops
between January and July 2007)
2006
Workshop
Leader, Narrative Lab, De Montfort University, June 2006
Tutor, Online Facilitation and Tutoring, online course for
NCSL: February-March 2006
Trainer: Using talk2learn (f2f) workshop: January 2006
2005
Tutor,
Season of Inspiration, online course in the trAce Online Writing
School, January & June-August 2005
Transition Workshops for teachers in Lambeth LEA: using the Adventure
Island online tool, 18 & 24 May 2005
Presentation to MA in Creative Collaboration, 14 April 2005
Contribution to first year ENGL120 Introduction to Literary Studies II:
Critical Approaches to Literature, March 2005
Tutor, Online Writers’ Workshop, online workshop in the
trAce Online Writing School
Getting On Online: Engaging students in collaborative elearning: Online facilitation
workshop, March
& April 2005
2004
Adventure Island:
Writing Workshop for Year 10,
Foxford School,
Coventry, December
2004
Tutor, TextLab, Writers for the Future residential workshop,
Nottingham, November 2004
Speaker, Writing and the Voice, NAWE National Conference, York,
October 2004
Tutor, Online Writers’ Workshop and Season of Inspiration,
trAce Online
Writing School, July-Sep 2004
Chair (Teachers’ Seminar), Panel Chair, Conference committee
member, Incubation Symposium on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham,
July 2004
2003
Tutor,
Arvon
Foundation: Creative Writing for the Internet, December 2003
Workshop, Horsham Festival,
October 2003
Tutorial and workshop, Hypertext
'03, August 2003
Workshop, Action for Children's
Arts Conference, March 2003
2002
Commissioned
columnist, "Off The Page", Radio 4, September 2002
Panel
member "Accessibility
and Diversity", and Web Warp & Weft shown in the Gallery, of
ELO State of the Arts Symposium, Los Angeles, USA, April 2002
2001
Speaker,
WebCT UK-Ireland User conference, December 2001
Writing
Online workshop, Cheltenham Festival of Literature, October 2001
Tutor, Arvon Foundation: Creative
Writing for the Internet, August 2001
Speaker, The Nottingham Trent
University Teaching and Learning Conference, April 2001
2000
Cyberfest
organiser, Cheltenham Festival of Literature, October 2000
Panel
Member, Online Creative Practice: Appreciation, Participation and Web-Literacy,
Digital Resources for
the Humanities, Sheffield, UK, September 2000
Tutor, Arvon Foundation: Writing
for the Internet, August 2000
Presentation
at Incubation Conference on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham, UK,
July 2000
Presentation at Computers and
Writing Conference, Texas, USA. May 2000
The
trAce Online Writing Community: Some aspects of writers online, given
at Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, April 2000
1999
Thinking in hypertext
and web writing workshop, Keystroke, for DA2, Bristol
Creativity on the Internet
for artists and teachers: Croydon Arts Education
Black Writers and Readers
Introduction to the Internet, Nottingham
1998
Derbyshire Libraries: Introduction
to the Internet for Writers (in 8 libraries)
Nottinghamshire Readers
and Writers Day: Introduction to the Internet
Introduction to writing
on the Internet for schools (INSET)
1997
(trAce workshops for writers)
Writing Hypertext, MOOing, Collaboration and Workshopping on the Web
National Association of Writers
in Education, lecture on writing for the Internet
Commercial copywriting of brochures and advertising materials, newsletters, technical and scientific journals, books including school text books, manuals, computer training courses.
Short stories, articles.
©2002-2007
Helen Whitehead
Last updated
July 18, 2007
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