While on our trip to Venice, we will be stopping at Harry’s Bar, one of the more famous bars in the world, to try a drink invented at the bar itself. The Bellini is a cocktail made of Italian sparkling wine and a peach puree. A detailed description of the drink can be found by clicking the Title link. Harry’s Bar is a famous haunt of celebrities, artists, writers and tourists like myself trying to spot of the aforementioned. Hemingway would drink here and order this.
Although not as important to me personally, carpaccio salad was also invented here. I enjoy thinly sliced strips of raw beef as much as the next guy, the drink speaks more to my soul, assuming my soul lingers in the vicinity of my liver. For how cantankerous my liver is, I wonder if my soul even knows where he is. That is something to ponder.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
