Mike Howarth
Email: michael.howarth@mhmvr.co.uk
BIOGRAPHY
Mike Howarth Ph.D., B.Sc. (Econ), Cert. Cons, PG Cert (HE)
Intelligent, crafted, friendly fast video production for business and education. An extensive career in education radio, multimedia and video with several year as a consultant at University College London since 2011.
- Helping UCL academics to use video to present their research and to teach effectively,currently the Erasmus ABCtoVLE rollout to 12 European Universities.
- Sharing production management experience & academic research demonstrated by hands-on skills with his video camera.
- Researching the use of video in teaching with publications and video reports & ‘How to’ resources at Middlesex University School of Education.
- Applying methods in local social and community projects.
Mike Howarth is a committed educationalist. On his first Kodak sponsored expedition to Peru in 1971 to collect teaching resources for schools in the UK he escaped four road crashes in one day on the mountain roads of the Vilcabamba Valley. He went on to make radio broadcasts for 20 years at BBC School Radio.
He used a PhD supported by BBC Education to understand the process of turning broadcasts into the new digital media, then to teach and lecture in new technologies for ten years, setting up a new course at West Herts College, and later at Middlesex University providing academic advice for managers taking higher degrees and creating eLearning resources at the Institute for Work Based Learning.
His research focus is applying video journalist techniques learnt in recent training by experienced BBC Newsnight cameraman John Morris, tailoring the principles and aplications to fast track economic use of video in and for the classroom. The reassessment of the learning process and hands-on thinking informed by neuroscience and metaphor, particularly spatial and embodied metaphors used by camera crews applied to academic staffand students creating videos. In Teaching and Learning Online Routledge 2nd Edition 2013. Chapter: Metaphor and neuroscience: a message to online learning, outlines his thinking on ‘media- savvy’ teaching: study and practice of the development for teachers and learners in a digital age, and revisiting the value of video technologies as teaching tools. Further writing is planned exploring the work of McGilchrist in the current move to ‘cleave’ – bring together research and practice in various fields including arts & science. A practitioner of the ‘Power of Making’, he is trustee of the Courtyard Arts & Community Centre, Hertford.
Backpack video journalist methods are not really new – “I was drilling himself to work quickly with Kodak Instamatic & Phillips tape recorder with eyes closed” – a technique learnt from his mentor Denis Kemp – enabled him to interview and photograph at the same time from day one. His view is still the same. It is not new technology that is important, the focus is the end-user, which requires a heart, a passion, and a deep understanding of processes involved.
Mike is married to Diana Freeman, MBE. Director of the Advisory Unit: Computers in Education, the supplier of AEGIS GIS mapping software to schools.
UCL Projects include:
2018 ABC Workshops for Program Design CPD videos, UCL Digital Education.
2014 CALT Teaching and Learning Conference: research-based education, launch video, interviews with participants. Provost’s Awards Ceremony and interviews with winners to support the university teaching and research strategy. CALT launch of UCL Teaching and Learning Exchange: interviewers with key university agencies and their strategies to support teaching staff. Teaching Advice and Safety Guide for Laboratory Assistants (School of Life and Medical Sciences). Clinical Problem Solving: Professor Jane Dacre MBBS Medical Programme. Canary Wharf Management Conference: leadership skills exercises (Careers Service). Lunchtime staff lecture series on range of enhancing teaching subjects.
2013 Personal Tutors Project: interviews with staff and alumni. Method and approaches to quality student support. Postgraduate Lecturer Training: presentation course material training. Department of Chemistry Alumni experience interviews. Summits & Horizons: exemplars and prospects for teaching with eLearning at UCL. CALT lunchtime sessions on themes such as mobile media, and social media. UCL International Induction Student Sessions (producing staff and filming events for 1,000 students). Teaching in Higher Education Courses Project Linking Learning & Teaching Departmental Teaching Strategies 1: Reflective Practitioner 2: Curriculum Design 3: Small Group Teaching 4: Lecturing and Large Group Teaching 5: Assessment and Feedback for Learning 6: Internationalisation of the Curriculum 7: Lecturing & Presenting 8: Research Led Teaching 9: Linking Learning & Teaching.
2012 Enhancing the Student Experience: interviews with students about their learning experience at UCL. Advanced Learning & Studying Methods (ALMS) neurobiology lectures.
Public output from research and scholarly activity
Howarth, M. S., 2017. Teaching Like a Video Journalist Thinks. Internet Learning, [Online]. Vol 5, No 1 Fall 2016/ Winter 2017, 47-67. Available at: http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/internet-learning/volume-5-number-1-fall-2016-winter-2017 [Accessed 20 July 2017].
Howarth, M. S. (2016, September) Dissertation tutoring with video. Poster. Exhibited at the annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Middlesex University, London. 594 cm x 841cm, 23” x 33”.
Howarth, M S (2013) Metaphor and neuroscience: implications for online learning. In B. Sutton & A. Basiel,ed. Teaching and Learning Online: New Models of Learning for a Connected World, Volume 2, Routledge, Ch.11.
Basiel, S., Howarth, M.S.(2009) Work Based Learning Wednesday webcast and rapid e-publishing model project. Paper, CISTI 2009 Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Howarth, M.S., Basiel, S.(2009) Individual learning agreements in work based learning:
an incremental approach to eLearning systems. Paper, M-2009, 23rd ICDE World Conference including the EADTU Annual Conference.
Basiel, S., Howarth, M.S.(2009) ePedagogy to inform online learning design. Paper, M-2009 23rd ICDE World Conference including the EADTU Annual Conference.
Basiel, S., Howarth, M.S.(2008) Individual learning agreements in work based learning:
an incremental approach to eLearning systems. Paper, ED Media, 2008.
Howarth, M.S.(2001) The ESF On-line Project: Introduction to digital production for the Internet and multimedia, 6th West Herts College Research Conference Dacorum, Hemel Hempstead, College Research Unit, July.
Howarth, M.S.(2000) Implications for PhD research for course design and content, 5th West Herts College Research Conference Dacorum, Hemel Hempstead, College Research Unit, July.
Howarth, M.S. (1999) Virtual Reality Photography: a new educational tool, CAL 99 Virtuality in Education, Institute of Education, March.
Howarth, M.S. (1998) Virtual reality photography: A new tool for primary geographers, Primary Geographer, 33. April, pp.28 29.
Howarth, M. S. (1997) Visual elements and container metaphors for multi-media, British Journal of Educational Technology, 28, Number 2 April, pp.125-135.
Howarth, M. (1995b) What makes children click, (Ed, Medhat, S.) Keynote speech, International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Southampton, Society for Computer Simulation International, pp.5-10, 11-12 April.
A Family Guide to Biddulph Grange Gardens, National Trust Handbook. 1998