About

I am Dr Bex Lewis, and I first decided to create a portfolio of my work in 1997, under the name “MyDesigna”. As I became more social media focused, I moved my information across into a blog on wordpress.com, and then transferred across to wordpress.org under my new domain name “Digital Fingerprint”, using wordpress.org (domain name, 1&1, hosted on Catalyst2).

Specific Interests

I have a particular interest in the Higher Education sector, Christian communication in the digital age, and love to help newbies engage in the digital world by enabling them to gain confidence in digital literacy… and in experimenting with new tools – including discovering new, interesting & useful apps for the iPhone!

There’s a few areas that still need checking for image uploads/incorrect links – but this is a bit of a case of the ‘cobbler’s shoes’ – I keep getting so much work, my own site gets left behind! I need to sit down and sort out my categories as well!!

Rebecca Lewis, BA (Hons), PhD

Bex is a graduate of King Alfred’s College (now the University of Winchester) in History/Education Studies, and in July 2004 was awarded her PhD, a modern cultural history PhD on the subject of second world war posters, which she conducted alongside working for the University IT Helpdesk and a number of projects, including a year long project on web accessibility and usability. Bex promoted interdisciplinary research at the University of Manchester before choosing to travel around the world in 2007 – taking in South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America… where she had her first experience of writing a travelblog. On her return, Bex became a Tour Leader for Oak Hall Expeditions, enjoying creating a good community vibe amongst her guests. In January 2009, she returned to the University of Winchester for a number of short-term projects, mostly web-based, but also including Associate Lectureships in History, Media Studies and Design for Digital Media.

Busy Busy

In October 2009, Bex was appointed Blended Learning Fellow (1 day per week) at the University, promoting appropriate mixes of electronic and face-to-face learning – aka – identifying the right tool for the job. With a difference evident, the role will expand to 2 days per week from August 2010. In July 2010 Bex will become Blended Learning Project Manager for “The Big Read“, a project supported by CODEC at the University of Durham. Although Bex is trying to learn to slow down, such interesting projects keep being offered, and she is also Social Media Strategist for Super Fun Days Out, is working on a JISC-funded bid “EMBED IT”, with regards to the implementation of Wimba conferencing software at the University of Winchester, and is completing an online site named “SkillsNet” for the University of Winchester which will make student skills information easily accessible… whilst completing her PGCLTHE, so that she can teach the Blended Learning module on it next year! Bex will continue to teach a module for Media Studies, entitled “Manipulating Media”, which will provide the students with 4 project briefs throughout the year, and for which they will be required to become digitally literate.

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