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Book recently published! My recently written book, "Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values" has recently been published by Woodhead Publishing (Chandos imprint) and also available through Amazon.

I live in High Peak, south-east of Manchester, with my wife Anna Grant (who works for GMSA), and our daughter Elsa, born July 2006. If the Simon Grant you seek is not this Simon Grant, try other people called Simon Grant.

Please contact me by e-mail, asimong@gmail.com. (If e-mail to me ever does not work, look here to see if I have a new e-mail address)
phone (+44) (0)7710031657; or look at my other contact details.

I work nominally 3 days per week for JISC CETIS, at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics in the University of Bolton. I also work as a freelance consultant, able to add value to all kinds of projects involving e-portfolio technology supporting personal development practice, skills, abilities or competences, values and identity. In these areas, I'm experienced both in the technical side of web systems, interoperability, and ontology, and in the human side of practice and the community of practice. Part of the value I offer is my principled and pragmatic connection between these diverse points of view.

work-related links general relevant useful links other personal interest
my or our work:
my work blog; events
my (or shared) publications
e-portfolio thinking
personal identity, ethical development
my responsibility:
European LM; Portfolio SIG;
LEAP 2.0; LEAP2A; PIOP;
work; network:
CRA (main collaborator)
JISC CETIS (main funders)
Some JISC project work
HR-XML: IMS: LIP, ePortfolio
e-Framework, jiscmail
IEEE Competency WG
Wikis: SC DeL 2; infokit; XCRI;
Flow; Metataxis; EIfEL;
BCS: Manchester; Usability;
Ning; LinkedIn; Facebook;
Technorati; PHP; MySQL;
work history:
1996-9 University of Liverpool
Connect, e-commerce, html intro
(Liverpool) LUSID (org.uk)
1994-6 EC Joint Research Centre
1991-4, City University
1987-91PhD at Strathclyde
research areas; cognitive architecture
search, information:
Google; Cuil; Wikipedia; clock
places:
Google maps; Streetmap;
Multimap; Mappy; Mapquest
Royal Mail postcodes
local:
UpMyStreet; Cornerhouse; iCan;
media & shopping:
BBC; Radio Times; NS; IMDB;
Wired; Fast; S+B;
Amazon; Lidl; Maplin;
communication / collaboration:
Google: docs; groups; calendar; mail;
slideshare; ygroups; del.icio.us;
Internet services:
whois; nic;
weather:
FMI; BBC weather: world;
UK; Manchester; Mid
XC: Met Off: Woodford obs;
NW, Manchester; EM, Buxton;
travel:
National rail: BON, BHM, BRI, CRE, EUS, MAN, NMC, NMN, STA, SPT, WGN, WGW;
RAC; traffic; ; EasyJet; Ryanair;
Airports: Manchester; Liverpool;
quite personal:
my personal blog
my outline personal history
my late father's life story
family and friends pages
general interests
personal utility:
bank; BT Yahoo;
Local health, leisure;
wider vision:
Info, tech, human development;
JCRT Visionary bid
Constructive Discussion
Quaker:
Quaker connections
Davide Melodia
North West Quakers
Bible; Quaker-B
interest:
Paragliding;
Manchester Finnish School
Finn-Guild; Rajaton
cathedral-bazaar; FFII;
personal history:
1995 visiting Corsica
old design guidelines for web pages
William Byrd Singers of Manchester.