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This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life. Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland ...
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This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life. Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland ...
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Knowing what is the 'next big thing' is a factor in success and survival: no surprise then that the study of signs is known as 'semiotics' from the greek word for oracle. But how does one become good at reading signs and why does it matter so much?Signs dominate everyday life: they can be natural signs, for example a rumble in the sky gives advance…
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The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…
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The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…
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The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…
  continue reading
 
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…
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There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. A…
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There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. A…
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Because of the increased distributed nature of production technology, not just for immaterial production but for physical production as well, it is increasingly possible to imagine modes of social life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities.How can we move away from a world that is based on a false notion that the…
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Because of the increased distributed nature of production technology, not just for immaterial production but for physical production as well, it is increasingly possible to imagine modes of social life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities.How can we move away from a world that is based on a false notion that the…
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Creativity is a highly valuable and desirable quality, which appears to defy our attempts at understanding it. Despite much scientific research effort, creativity remains infuriatingly elusive. It seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne. Could it be that we are looking in the wrong place?If ho…
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Creativity is a highly valuable and desirable quality, which appears to defy our attempts at understanding it. Despite much scientific research effort, creativity remains infuriatingly elusive. It seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne. Could it be that we are looking in the wrong place?If ho…
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This talk challenged orthodoxy in assessment. The speaker, Bobby Elliot, has overall responsibility for all vocational (ICT) assessment within the college and workplace sectors in Scotland.Bobby has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital technologies (Web 2.0)...hence the blending of the two into …
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This talk challenged orthodoxy in assessment. The speaker, Bobby Elliot, has overall responsibility for all vocational (ICT) assessment within the college and workplace sectors in Scotland.Bobby has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital technologies (Web 2.0)...hence the blending of the two into …
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In an age where a blog post or a video on YouTube is challenging mainstream media as a source for global attention, it becomes increasingly important for business and the community to be aware of what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and Facebook 55 million, YouTube has around 57 million video…
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In an age where a blog post or a video on YouTube is challenging mainstream media as a source for global attention, it becomes increasingly important for business and the community to be aware of what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and Facebook 55 million, YouTube has around 57 million video…
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The third part of the Podcasting in Creative Business seminar recording is the presentation by each of the three groups to everybody participating of the plans they devised during the afternoon session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the real world. Everybody is encouraged to join in.…
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The third part of the Podcasting in Creative Business seminar recording is the presentation by each of the three groups to everybody participating of the plans they devised during the afternoon session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the real world. Everybody is encouraged to join in.…
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The second recording from the Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contains extracts from the three group discussions.Group one was discussing how to create a podcast series as part of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal communications for East Lothian Council. The third gro…
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The second recording from the Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contains extracts from the three group discussions.Group one was discussing how to create a podcast series as part of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal communications for East Lothian Council. The third gro…
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Part one of the recording from new media production company Inner Ear's Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contextualises the medium, showing how it fits within social networks, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course of this seminar: external marketing, internal commun…
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Part one of the recording from new media production company Inner Ear's Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contextualises the medium, showing how it fits within social networks, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course of this seminar: external marketing, internal commun…
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Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership implications of new technologies; in particular he researches intellectual property issues in User Generated Content and the so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon. He delivered a presentation in which he looked at the creation of urban spaces within so-called virtual worlds, such as the popular envi…
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This event was a three-hour interactive workshop on futures thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. As a much abused term, the seminar helped attendees understand and measure how innovative they are, whether they would recognise innovation and what part technology plays in innovation.저자 Dr. Chris Yapp
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The vast majority of those with whom we work, live and play are probably more digital immigrants than digital natives. Yet 2007 marks the first time that 16 year olds entering the work place will have been brought up their entire life with the world-wide-web. What opportunities lie in store for business, government and those who choose to create th…
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Derek Robertson discussed a number of games based pilots that he has initiated and supported in Scottish schools over the past year. He also delivered an impassioned and informed series of arguments as to why games based learning has a vital role to play in creating contexts for learning that resonate with and motivate the digital native that we no…
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Part five is the first of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.Lord Winston is Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. His research, which has produced over 300 publications, is known worldwide.Robert Winston is committed to scientific education and his many TV series on different asp…
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Part four is presented by Michael O’Neill.A graduate of Glasgow University (Economics/History) he began as an Economist/Town Planner before switching to teaching. He spent 15 years at the chalkface as a teacher, principal teacher and assistant head, followed by posts of adviser in social subjects, senior adviser and education officer in 2 divisions…
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This National Conference was hosted by the Tapestry Partnership and supported by Urban Learning Space. The event is framed in the context of education in Scotland in its widest sense. It had as its focus the importance of the brain in learning for young people and adults. Lord Winston requires no introduction; he is a world renowned scientist who i…
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The past few years have been a buzz with terms such as the Creative Economy, social networks and Web 2.0. Yet many industries and institutions are struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing landscape, often mistakenly focus on the technological rather than the cultural shifts that make this change so fundamental. Collaboration and creativity have…
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We all have many stories to tell. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience. By starting to tell these stories and hearing those of others, we can start to shift our perspective on who we are, explore the ways in which we are attached to the co…
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Since 2005, Jemima has run Women in Film and Television’s Technical Change mentoring scheme, backed by ESF EQUAL and UIP, which provides mentors for women in technical areas.This seminar, based around the findings/conclusions from Technical Change, proposed what might be holding women back in technical areas and asked how we can encourage more wome…
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Sean referenced schools located in the middle of shopping centres, robotics, interactive fountains, new ways of learning and different approaches to risk management. He argued that other countries have made a crucial distinction between places of learning and ways of learning. He believed that there is a fantastic opportunity to develop, in the UK,…
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The seminar opened our minds to the disjointedness of the physical space where children currently learn versus the content of what they are actually learning. Sean looked at how other countries are approaching the renewal (and, in some case, replacement) of their educational models in preparation for the challenges posed by globalization and the em…
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The Workplace Forum lecture, by Andrew Harrison, explored the impact of educational transformation on the university and school estate, the workplace and the community. A response was given by Gordon Davies.Education at every level in the UK is undergoing radical transformation. Universities are responding to changing demographics and economic pres…
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Glasgow 2020 has been a two year project of events facilitated by the UK think tank Demos. It has looked at how people in the city of Glasgow look at the future, using a variety of creative and imaginative processes in a mass imagination exercise. Just before Glasgow 2020 unveils its findings and resulting publication, join Gerry Hassan (who create…
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Professor O'Connor presented a case for the role of creative industries in the future of towns and cities, operating in a complex ecosystem that involves not only artists and business people, but people from every area of urban life. Taking Manchester as a prime example, he looked at the relationship between the cultural economy and the wider image…
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Online tools such as Blogs, Wikis, email, Instant chat and First Class communities can all be used to enhance the learning experience. This seminar included examples from some of Ultralab’s recent projects such as: (1) Ultraversity: a content-free on-line degree for full time workers. (2) Heads Together: how groups of professionals (in this case He…
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This presentation looked at general trends in the use of technologies in learning environments and showed how collaboration in learning is key. It focused on how on-line learning is changing to become more participative than receptive - collaborative rather than content-based - and how the Internet can maximize opportunities for education to groups…
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This workshop focused on the importance of interaction design in the creation of effective mobile and social learning experiences. Such experiences help to create a "social identity". Additionally, central to a successful learning experience using emerging technologies is the need to involve the end user at every stage.…
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Currently Assistant Professor in the University of California’s Department of Visual Arts, Natalie was previously Lecturer Convertible in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, Consultant to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center, NYU, and Distinguished Critic in the Department of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. One of A…
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