Thursday, July 19, 2007

Talk to the Sichuan Media and Journalism Programme

I gave a talk on Digital Publishing today for Oxford University

The group of journalists were from Sichuan provence in China and were undertaking a course in the department of continuing Education at Oxford.

Here is the lecture 

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Desktop Creativity

I'm in Denmark at the Multimedia Educators Forum.

I am giving a presentation on my view of Desktop Creativity.

You can read all about the topic on the Wiki where I am still developing my thoughts…

edit: presentation posted up here

Flickr Photos 

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Project Collaboration

I gave a presentation yesterday on using online tools to manage projects and collaborate effectively. The arrival of Web 2.0 and web applications, means that there are now an amazing number of free tools available to manage projects online.

Presentation is here.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Screen Media

All of our work seems to be output to the screen, the computer, the TV the mobile phone. So we need to consider what the screen actually is.

Presentation here

See the link to the Wiki page below 

Monday, December 05, 2005

Powerpoint Performer

This is an update of an earlier version. I seem to give this talk annually, so I figured I should do a bit of work on it and then re-post. Is this an acceptable thing to do on a blog?

A couple of years ago I watched the Paul McCartney ‘Back in the US’ film of his tour, I was impressed by the incredible collage of digital film, animation and video that was projected behind the stage. Maybe this is typical now at pop concerts. I have heard about VJs, a new breed of nightclub and dance scene entrepreneurs who can construct, in real time, mixed digital video projected to go with the music.

  Of course this may be a far cry from standing in front of class to give a ‘Powerpoint’ presentation, but still it’s a performance, and how can we make it work well?

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