About Me

I’m Rob, a Digital Technologies educator who lives in south-west Western Australia. I love education and learning, and firmly believe you can’t be an effective teacher if you’re not also passionate about your own learning. As a result, most of what I share is about things I am interested in learning about myself, and sometimes their application to teaching. Educational theory is interesting too, but this site isn’t really about that.

I love knowing a little about a lot, and so frequently dive into an endless array of rabbit holes because there’s something shiny in there that needs investigating! Robotics, generative art, infosec, code, data analysis - the list of interesting things keeps getting longer and I keep getting older :(

I enjoy poking at black boxes to find out how they work (or why they don’t work). It usually means I’m pretty good at what I do, but it’s annoying for me as I’m seldom satisfied with not knowing the details of why things do what they do.

Here’s a collection of some places you can find aspects of digital me (possibly in various states of neglect):

• Github - Zarify
  A motley collection of projects from generative art to more regular code. I’m trying to be better about sharing things here.
• Mastodon - @probably@genart.social
  Like the instance suggests, mostly focused on generative art. The single form of (semi) social media I allow myself in the modern era of ubiquitous enshittification.
• OpenProcessing - pRobably
  Although I do some local generative art development in Python and p5js, I really like the convenience of OpenProcessing.
• LinkedIn - Rob Poulter
  Used sparingly and begrudgingly. I’m not a born self-promoter, and so generally find LinkedIn pretty distasteful.

About Headtilt

Headtilt is my blog/project site that I run (and occasionally update). Content is loosely categorised into Ramble and Classroom.

Ramble is generally stream of consciousness content, mostly about technology and other topics that I find interesting and maybe others do too.

Classroom contains posts that relate to education, and are mostly to do with technology use in highschool. I like to share what I do in case its useful to others, so I’ll try to include digital artifacts, intentions, year levels, and outcomes. If you want to find out more about something I did, have feedback, etc, feel free to read out to me at rob at this domain.