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Unreinventing the Wheel

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

I delivered a five minute session entitled “Unreinventing the Wheel” to other members of Northampton University’s Digital Technologies in Education Special Interest Group.

Tags: digital, education, heritage, learning, museums, talk, workshop

Florence Nightingale Interactive Quiz

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

Click the image above to see this self-marking, interactive quiz all about OCLEFERN ALEINGTHING

Tags: digital, education, museum, online, resources

Online Course: MNDA Care Worker’s Module

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

The Motor Neurone Disease Association commissioned me to update their online training course for new MNDA Care Workers.

Click the image or the Read more… link below for more details, including a link to the course.

Tags: digital, education, MOOCs, online, teaching

Florence Nightingale Comes Home: Classroom Resources

January 7, 2022Tom BriggsPortfolio1 Comment

As part of Kate Travers Associates I was commissioned to develop classroom resources to support the AHRC-funded project Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020. Click the image above to find out more.

Tags: digital, maths, museum, online, resources, teaching

GEM’s Core Competencies for Museum Educators: Update Project

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022Tom BriggsPortfolio1 Comment

“Thomas Briggs worked with the GEM team to update the competencies, building on his own digital competencies for museum educators…”

Tags: digital, education, online, writing

Case Study: Bletchley Park – Past, Present, Future: Cryptography

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

“I had long entertained an idea of some sort of “codebreaker training course” accessible to people who were interested in finding more about how codes and ciphers work, but who did not necessarily see themselves as a ‘maths person’.”

Tags: cryptography, mathematics, teaching, workshop

When am I ever going to need this?

March 13, 2021March 13, 2021Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

“OK: hands up everyone who at some point during the last teaching year has heard the question above from a student in one of their classes?”

Tags: education, mathematics, teaching, writing

Mathematics in Indonesia: An Infographic

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

My first assignment for my MA in Education (module: International Perspectives on Education) was to produce an infographic looking at an aspect of education in another country. See the result here!

Tags: academic, education, MA, mathematics, research, study, teaching

Festive Fractals

December 14, 2020October 1, 2021Tom BriggsPortfolioLeave a comment

In December 2020 I wrote and delivered a Christmas-themed online workshop for Potential Plus UK.

Tags: Christmas, mathematics, online, PPUK, seasonal

Mathematical Objects: Enigma machine with Tom Briggs

December 11, 2020October 20, 2021Tom BriggsPortfolio2 Comments

Shortly before leaving Bletchley Park I recorded an interview with Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett for the Mathematical Objects podcast, hosted by the Aperiodical.

Tags: cryptography, enigma, interview, mathematics, museums, online, podcast