Education
Alec has conceived and realised a number of collaborative artist projects in schools. These include Football Haiku, published as a book in 2002; The Book of Eyes (with Amapro Montero Espina), at Westlea Primary and The Community School of Auchterarder ; The Book of Questions, published as a newspaper by BALTIC and later as a book; wordwood, an animation of mesostic name poems on the names of native trees; Renga word-maps of Barmston Primary and Easington Colliery Primary; Nine Colours, an animation, featuring mesostic poems and colour specifications from photographs, with Ken Cockburn and students of Tweedmouth First Primary; Mesostic Laboratorium, a series of poetic workshops composing mesostic poems about famous scientists, with Tom Shakespeare and students of Framwellgate school, Durham, as well as six other schools in the North East, for the Science Learning Centre North East; and Mesostic Curriculum, a collection of mesostic poems created as signs, for Billingham Campus.

All of these projects were produced by platform projects; a number were realised with support from Creative Partnerships.