Among his list of achievements is graduating with a PhD in Education, completing his 10th Comrades Marathon and getting admitted into the Comrades Green Number Club, being one of the first academics to have articles published in the newly launched online publication, The Conversation Africa, and using his sabbatical to travel Southern-Africa sharing his research on how to develop an effective digital pedagogy with hundreds of lecturers and teachers.

‘Two of the biggest goals were achieved this year. They were completing my PhD and earning my Green Number for finishing 10 consecutive Comrades Marathons. It was like completing both a Comrades of the mind and a Comrades of the body at the same time,’ said Blewett.

Blewett is using his sabbatical, while enjoying traveling around southern Africa, to help others benefit from his research by sharing his findings, arising from his doctoral research on implementing effective digital teaching and learning approaches.  He recently held a seminar titled: "Skeuomorphism - The Biggest Hurdle to e-Learning?", at the University of Cape Town and at UKZN.

His partnership with Thinking Schools of South Africa (TSSA), an NGO that works with schools to encourage the use of formal creative thinking skills in teaching and learning, resulted in him contributing to workshops at Durban Girls College, Rosedean School in Johannesburg and St George’s Gammar School in Cape Town, with hundreds of teachers from around the country taking part in these sessions.

Blewett’s article: Why it’s time the world embraced Wikipedia - published  recently in The Conversation Africa - is an example of how Blewett is getting the world to look at the digital space from a different angle in the realm of teaching and learning.

‘This article is very topical and relevant to academics as it involves the debate on whether we should be allowed to use Wikipedia as a resource,’ said Blewett. ‘The article argues that we need to change our perceptions in this modern age about the notion of being correct. In fact, when we look at it, all our research writing activities over the centuries have actually been one huge wiki.’ As at the time of writing this, this article has been republished through many other prominent sites such as LifeHacker, TechCentral, ECNA, and the Rand Daily Mail.

Blewett agreed that his goals were crazy and audacious at times but felt that’s what made achieving them more special.

‘I could only do this through God's strength. Faith for me was very important in taking these challenges on. It gave me perspective when I was overwhelmed. It gave me strength when I was weak. It gave me peace when I was afraid. It gave me hope when I despaired. It doesn't matter how big or impossible the challenge sounds - envision it, grow it, and then go for it.’