Projects

Some projects I've worked on include:

A screenshot of this website that shows the 'Dashboard Study' project listed on the Project page

Accessibility Review (with AI)

March 2026

I applied what I had learned from a Web Accessibility course to improve the accessibility of this website. I reviewed the site myself and also used an AI (Claude) to do a review and compared the different issues that I identified to those that Claude identified.

A screenshot of alearning analytics dashboard that shows students' scores in a course.

Dashboard Study

2025 - 2026

I worked as a researcher on a project that involved designing fair and inclusive Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs). I developed four prototype LADs using HTML, CSS and JavasScript (with Vue), which were tested by university students and teachers.

A screenshot of a tool that visualises findings from Daniel Hickmott's PhD study.

Inhibitors and Enablers

January 2025

This projects presents results from my analysis of interviews that I conducted with primary school teachers in 2018, as part of my PhD research. I used TypeScript and Phaser.js to create the interactive project, which allows you to explore my research results.

A white tiger infront of a mirror and next to a mug in cartoon style, the image has been generated with AI.

Memory Trick Widget

November 2024

I created a simple widget that can be used to generate images for passphrases, as a way to help people remember their passphrases. I wrote a Python script to generate images for all the passphrases that can be generated with the widget and used HTML/JavaScript to create the widget.

A person's hands, with one hand writing in a notebook and the other on a laptop that shows students in a video chat, in cartoon style.

MEd (Digital Technologies)

2020 - 2022

I lectured in the Master of Education (Digital Technologies) at the University of Sydney, working with the Australian Computing Academy. This program was for teachers upskilling for and leading the implementation of the Digital Technologies curriculum.

A grid with a beetle that is at the origin point (0,0) and a purple dot at the point (4,2).

Coding in Stage 3

2016 - 2020

I developed and ran a sustained professional learning program for primary school teachers, as part of my PhD study's data collection. My PhD project involved measuring the program's impact on participating teachers' coding knowledge, confidence about teaching coding, and plans for integrating coding across the curriculum.

A screenshot from the Sentence Hero game, showing a penguin jumping over a rolling boulder.

Literacy Apps

2014 - 2016

I worked with a team of educators and engineers to develop the iOS versions of the Apostrophe Power and Sentence Hero mobile learning apps. I also applied Serious Games Analytics to data collected through the Apostrophe Power app to gain understanding about how players interacted with the app.

The cartoon Scratch cat next to two Scratch coding blocks. One block says 'When green flag clicked' and the other says 'say Coding!'.

Coding and STEM 4 Schools

2013 - 2019

From 2013 to 2019, I worked with a team of educators and engineers to prepare resources for and co-ordinate a variety of professional learning programs for upskilling teachers for the Digital Technologies curriculum.