Miles Berry spent 18 years teaching and managing ICT in four schools, most recently as a primary head teacher, before taking up his current role as subject leader for ICT Education in Roehampton University's Department of Education. Miles was one of the pioneers of VLEs and blogging in the primary sector using the open source tools Moodle and Elgg, for which he won Becta's ICT in practice award for primary education in 2006. His research focus is the role of online communities in teachers' professional formation and development, but other academic interests include computing and creativity in primary education and informal learning. He is vice chair of Naace, the ICT association, serves on the management board for Computing at School and is a fellow of the BCS and RSA. He blogs occasionally at milesberry.net and tweets as @mberry.