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First name

Leon

Last name

Cych

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Learn 4 Life

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Leon Cych was an ICT teacher for 23 years and wrote one of the first non-academic school web pages in the UK outlining a virtual tour of the British Museum in 1994. He won the Science Museum's First STEM Award for teachers and has written online educational resources for the BBC, Science, Franklin and British Museums. Since becoming a freelance educational consultant he has been involved with a host of innovative educational projects from the world's first experimental virtual opera to being technical proofer for the Friends of Ed - Masters of Flash resource books. Currently he spends his time between project managing innovative KS3 music education video software for a large media distribution company in Soho and writing about, filming, blogging and podcasting with key innovators in the UK education sector. In 2005 he was editor of Computer Education for Naace and wrote the Social Networking section of Becta ICT research publication Emerging Technologies for Learning. He has written regularly for the TES and regularly speaks at ITT events, conferences and keynotes. He is a member of blogs?.ac.uk and is an evangelist for blogging and web 2.0 tools in the educational sector in the UK.

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