My professional role is that of Education Officer (Digital Literacy) within the Directorate for Digital Literacy in the Ministry for Education, Malta. In this role, I support schools in the quest to embed technology in learning. This by focusing on students and educators’ digital competence. In the past years I have initiated and organised various national events including the Malta Robotics Olympiad, Malta Robo League and Family Coding.
After eight years teaching Computing and ICT within a state secondary school, I moved to the Department of eLearning as a support teacher in eLearning where in my role I developed and organised of national educational events of which the national eLearning awards and conference, Malta Robotics Olympiad, and other student competitions. Following this I took the role of Head of Department (eLearning) where I continued working on a number of initiatives whilst support various schools in the use of technology for learning. In addition to the work within the Department of eLearning, from 2011 to 2016, I occupied the role of ICT coordinator within the Directorate for Lifelong Learning. This mainly involved the development and organisation of ICT related courses within the directorate’s adult education centres and collaborating entities.
This blog started off as an online reflective diary for my studies in the Masters in Online and Distance Education with the Open Univeristy. I also hold a diploma in computing for education and a Bachelor in Education (Hons) studied with the Univerity of Malta. As may be easily deduced, my main interest is in technology, learning and anything in between.
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