This is just a test of blogging via the Posterous app for the iPhone, which admittedly is quite slick and intuitively designed. Being in Seoul now and constantly walking, expect more of the short, staccato type of post: reflective, singular, hopefully focused. A nice hang of pace, I am sure.
When I do blog at home, I will have to contend with this view. I also want to record ambient sounds of the city as it strangely calms me, despite being infinitely louder than Princeton. some structure to the noise, I suppose.
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.
