Blog Posts – Education Innovation - I Built My Own Education

December 28, 2024

Back to housesitting

Well, I've actually been back to housesitting for a while now. After I finished up a whole spring and summer of housesitting in September, I decided I was going to have a break from it. Ironical...

November 9, 2024

Primal Fitness Footage

Back in 2022, I was experimenting with creating lifestyle content for my YouTube channel and, as a practice run, I filmed a load of footage for a personal profile video called Just Call Me Pete. ...

November 9, 2024

Leaving Leading as a Life Coach open for the time being

Even though I now have all the components for Leading as a Life Coach completed and posted up, I have decided to hold off signing off on the full final project. No signature yet I'm doing th...

November 9, 2024

The new component for Leading as a Life Coach is now up

Coponent 4 (the newly added component) of the final project for my Leadership and Management concentration is all about my side hustling as a manager while I worked as a life coach. Origina...

November 9, 2024

Talking weekend nights

While writing up the Side Hustling as a Manager page for the Leading as a Life Coach final project, I found some old footage that I shot in 2022 while I was working my weekend night job. In the b...

November 7, 2024

Everthing I learned folding t-shirts two nights a week

“What I needed was a part-time night job. Part time so it would not steal most of my week outside of work which I would use for building my creative endeavours. Also, it needed to be a night job s...

October 25, 2024

Updated the Dabbling with Creative Technologies overview page

It's taken me a while, but now that I have each of the component pages posted up, I have jumped back into the final project overview page and given it a much-needed update. There is now an overvi...

October 24, 2024

Component 1 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 1 of my Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies final project is all about the websites I have created using the WordPress website builder suite. This component is not really...

October 8, 2024

Taking a break from housesitting

After nine months of housesitting, I've decided to take a break from it. Or, at least, I'm going to scale it back a bit. While living in lots of lovely houses and looking after a range...

October 4, 2024

Splitting up the distinct aspects of my web design skillset for greater user engagement

Dabbling with Creative Technologies is one of the final projects I am currently working on and Component 1 - Web Design with WordPress of that project is concerned with my utilization of the WordP...

October 4, 2024

A new component for Leading as a Life Coach

As part of the re-jigging of the Leading as a Life Coach final project, I'm adding a new component to the project. The new component is called Side Hustling as a Manager and will detail the manag...

October 3, 2024

A new name for an old final project

Leading as a Life Coach was originally called Not Your Average Life Coach. Now that I've opened the project back up, I decided to change the name to Leading as a Life Coach because, as with...

October 2, 2024

Re-opening and re-jigging the Leading as a Life Coach final project

I'm currently re-jigging and re-naming a few of the final projects for my MTA Portfolio. One of the projects to recieve this re-jigging treatment is Leading as a Life Coach. This project was ori...

October 1, 2024

My Creative Technologies Sandbox is now Dabbling with Creative Technologies

Dabbling with Creative Technologies is the new name I have given to my Creative Technologies Sandbox a.k.a. the final project for my Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration. ...

September 29, 2024

I've now signed off on my Education Innovation final Project

Building My Own Education a.k.a. my Education Innovation final project is now complete! This final project not only defines the philosophy behind my self-education approach, but it also det...

September 29, 2024

I Built My Own Education is now Building My Own Education

To be clear, this website - ibuiltmyown.education - is still called I Built My Own Education. However, the final project for the Education Innovation concentration, which was originally titl...

September 29, 2024

Why education needs to be more highly valued

For the final assignment of my What future for education MOOC, I had to produce a video reflection in which I explored an idea for improving the education experience. For my reflection, I decided ...

September 27, 2024

Component 5 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 5 is all about the Breaking Cinema experimental documentary storytelling podcast I developed between 2014 and 2016. The podcast was an off shoot of The Cinema Complex documentary...

September 26, 2024

Component 1 of Being a Creative Producer is now up

Component 1 of my Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship final project is all The Miracle of Crowdfunding is the crowdfunding campaign I created to raise the funds to cover the tuition fee of the...

September 24, 2024

Component 3 of Being a Creative Producer is now up

Component 3 of my Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship final project is all about The Cinema Complex which is an un-produced feature length documentary idea. The Cinema Complex would have exami...

September 21, 2024

The Inception for Breaking Cinema and The Cinema Complex

Back in 2014, when I was first starting to gear up to do some more filmmaking or filmmaking-related creative projects, I created the following reflection video to help me articulate my ideas. The ...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE 8 - I've made some changes to the video package

This blog post was originally published on 26/07/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally poste...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE 7 - Lower Weir, University of Bath, the bits inbetween, the importance of water and the best part

This blog post was originally published on 23/07/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally poste...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE 6 - Miracle Masters Me

This blog post was originally published on 14/07/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally poste...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE 5 - Miracle of Crowdfunding overall marketing package

This blog post was originally published on 10/07/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally poste...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE 4 - Time management, more filming and filming style

This blog post was originally published on 30/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Initially, all my creative energies...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE #3.2 - Pete's house shoot - 19/06/2014

This blog post was originally published on 18/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally posted on its o...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: UPDATE #3.1 - Finding your edge, from here on out (Pete's Masters crowdfunding video/practice filming)

This blog post was originally published on 18/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Initially, all my creative energies...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: Update #2.2 Pete's Masters crowdfunding video - Do you want to come with me?

This blog post was originally published on 11/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. This blog post was originally poste...

September 8, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: Update #2.1 - Getting the ball rolling and filming it!

This blog post was originally published on 07/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master’s degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Initially, all my creative energies were aime...

September 7, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: Update #1 - Intro and ideas

This blog post was originally published on 03/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master's degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Initially, all my creative energies were aime...

September 1, 2024

Component 2 of Being a Creative Producer is now up

Component 2 of Being a Creative Producer is all about the abandoned Miracle Mockumentary feature film project I had developed to make use of the footage shot for my earlier abandoned project, The ...

August 4, 2024

Progenitors now added to my MTA Portfolio

I previously highlighted how I had added my BA (Hons) dissertations to my MTA Portfolio and my reasoning for including them is because they serve as key progenitors for the creation of my MTA Port...

July 30, 2024

Being a Creative Producer and adding some creative technologies to it

Being a Creative Producer is what I've christened my final project for the Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship concentration. The name 'Being a Creative Producer' already has a history with my...

July 30, 2024

Component 4 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 4 is all about the Cameo Microfilms I produced in 2015. As with all the ‘components’ of my Dabbling with Creative Technologies final project, 365 FRAMES 2015 is its own dist...

July 29, 2024

Component 3 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 3 is all about my 365 FRAMES 2015 project in which I made a video a day for a whole year. As with all the 'components' of Dabbling with Creative Technologies, 365 FRAMES 2015 is i...

July 29, 2024

The Summative Video Montages of 366 FRAMES 2012

In 2012 I undertook a 366 project which was a creative endeavour where I captured a photo a day for each day of the year. Therefore, at the end of the year I had 366 photographs (366 becaus...

July 29, 2024

Component 2 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 2 is all about my Ways 2 Interface research project, study log and personal journal. As with all the ‘components’ of Dabbling with Creative Technologies, Ways 2 Interface was in f...

July 29, 2024

Five new blog posts for Ways 2 Interface

While I was wrapping up the Ways 2 Interface blog by posting up all the unpublished and un-utilized posts, it occurred to me that it would make sense to create a new introduction post to succinctl...

July 24, 2024

Ways 2 Interface blog posts added to MTA blog

I've now reposted most of the blog posts from my Ways 2 Interface blog onto this MTA blog. To be clear, my Ways 2 Interface blog is still up and running and accessible as its own site. How...

July 23, 2024

BA (Hons) Dissertations added to MTA Portfolio

I've now added my two BA (Hons) dissertations - Ways of Being: The Spectator and the Spectacle and EYES - to the Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration of my MTA Portfolio. ...

July 23, 2024

Unfinished posts and no longer used pages now posted on Ways 2 Interface

As part of the wrap up process for Ways 2 interface, while I add it as a component to my Creative Technologies Sandbox, I have now posted all the unfinished/unutilized posts I originally wrote in ...

July 21, 2024

An Ambitious Project: Understanding the Interface of the Spectator and the Spectacle

This is an unused blog post from late 2013 that was originally intended as one of the introduction posts for the Ways 2 Interface project. Ways of Understanding Ways 2 Interface is the ...

July 21, 2024

The Network-Narrative: The World Wide Interface

The following is an unpublished post from 2014 that would have formed one part of the introduction for the Ways 2 Interface research project. The Bigger Picture There is a bigger picture today,...

July 21, 2024

The Interface: Reconsidering the Terminology and the Perspective of Understanding

The following is an unpublished post from 2014 that would have formed one part of the introduction for the Ways 2 Interface research project. Re-asserting Grand Theory with Practical Validation ...

July 21, 2024

Unfinished Business: The Story of the Interface

The following is an unfinished post from 2014 that was originally meant to be one of the introduction posts for the Ways 2 Interface research project, but I didn't end up using it. I've publishe...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface Research Interests Page

The following is the research interests page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site. The research page outlined my wider research interests in relation to the focus of the Wa...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface Coaching Page

The following the coaching page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site. The coaching I offered was aimed at students and served as a natural extension of the postgraduate stu...

July 21, 2024

The Interface of Reality: Spontaneous philosophizing about the nature of what is real in the 21st century

The following is a Ways 2 Interface post from 2015 that contains the uncut version of three videos I recorded as part of my 365 FRAMES 2015 project. In the videos I pondered the nature of reality ...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface studies page

The following is the studies page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site.The studies page listed all the MOOCs and courses I was undertaking during the period when my Postgradu...

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