2026–ongoing
Happy Land
A cookie clicker multiplayer game for streaming — tap, idle, buy upgrades, chat — still early and mutating.
Mashed together
Cookie clicker, a casino, Monopoly houses, and chat, on one map you can tinker with on stream.
Tinkering
David Sherlock's Tinkering
I make teaching tools at the University of Liverpool, mostly for Health and Life Sciences, and poke at whatever else is interesting that week. Lecturer in Digital Education and Innovation at CEDS. PhD on digital footprints and surveillance — wrestling graphs worked better than a stats lecture. Notes on the tools are here, plus a few papers.
Latest tinkering
See past tinkering2026–ongoing
FrameHunt
An early click-the-picture demo for students practising named bits of the body. Timed, scored, ranked a bit like Times Tables Rock Stars. Started in 2026 with Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health; hosted as a CEDS demo while the idea is still being talked through.
Mashed together
Times Tables Rock Stars, named bits of a body, and a PHP page dressed like a skills lab.
2025–ongoing
HLS Digital Directory
A sharing database for Health and Life Sciences staff at the University of Liverpool. Mostly so people put their teaching projects in one place, find related work, and maybe stop reinventing the same thing down the corridor.
Mashed together
A staff catalogue that tries to show this teaching project is related to that one.
2023–ongoing
Clingo
Clingo is clinical bingo for health students. Instead of numbers you get phrases you might hear on placement. Scan a QR code for a card, someone at the front runs the caller, and when the card is full you shout CLINGO. ScLINGO is the same game with Scouse.
Mashed together
Bingo night, clinical phrases, Scouse, and a QR code on a phone.
2021–ongoing
Placement allocation
A web app for spreading students across hospital sites without living in last year’s spreadsheet. Trusts confirm capacity, universities have preferences, academic years stack up, and somebody still has to email people when a site has not filled in this year’s numbers.
Mashed together
Hospital sites, how many students they can take this year, university preferences, and the spreadsheet that used to hold all of it.
2025
Chat with Jekyll and Hyde
Clinical ethics scenarios for health students. You pick a messy situation, a bad doctor has already given terrible advice, and you talk it through with a chatbot that is meant to be the better colleague in the room.
Mashed together
Ethics cases, a pile of terrible advice, and ChatGPT as the colleague who has to unpick it.
Interests
Open the mapWrestling ended up in the PhD. A choose-your-own-adventure with Harold Bishop has not. I tend to start with something people already care about.
Writing
All writingRecent papers and talks, with a short note on each. Official lists are on Liverpool and ORCID.
- A Bespoke Comparative Judgement Tool: Feedback-rich assessment through simple comparisons
Workshop with Sean Goodman, piloting the tool with colleagues from around the university.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
- The use of AI to summarize peer feedback
Short piece on using GPT to summarise the pile of comments this app collects on student posters.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
- Everything Compares to You: Development and Evaluation of an Online Comparative Judgment Application for Assessment
Conference digital showcase about building and evaluating the app.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
Tags
Quick ways to group the tools, themes, and experiments.