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Welcome to Stuart Johnson's old-style homepage,
as such it is.
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I now find myself working, through neccesity, as a developer of web-applications. The
neccesity being the provision of an information management tool for
teachers that makes positive it's impact in the classroom. Where it
matters, as they say.
The ClaSS Student System. |
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Here's a wonderful panorama from the station platform where I stood every day for two years to catch the train, this dizzy after another day teaching. As part of my PGCE training at the University of York I wrote a special study into The new hypermedia; their implications for learning and teaching. Online in full with links; its popular with search engines. |
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I have been lucky enough to work in Physics
in Paris thanks to a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. My research is described on my physics' pages, along with some of my publications, and some links for superconductivity. You can also browse my PhD thesis but you'd surely do better seeking some Scottish enlightenment in Edinburgh where I studied for it. |
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I'm originally from the City of
Sunderland,
in north east angleterre, and I still feel the tug every time
Sunderland AFC
take to the pitch. How did they get on in their last match?
picture courtesy of the Sunderland Echo |
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Wherever I live, whatever my work, since 1982 various flavours of
computers have been at my side. It wasn't until early 1993, after a
sysadmin friend intoned "xmosaic" over
beers in the backroom of The Quill (an old Edinburgh pub), that
the web made me understand why. My quill, pen, paper and ethos are
now provided by GNU/Linux. There may or may not be links
and stuff on my computer page.
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Until recently, I worked as a teacher of physics to 11-18 year olds at