16th of April wondering what happened to my holiday just a few days left and I have not done nearly as much as I planned to do in fact spent most of the holiday feeling pretty ill and wooly in the head but just beginning to get into it reading a lot of pamphlets and books based around the blueboard project in Bristol suited and booted Knowle West media Centre Futurelab and finding all that sort of connection to look through trawl through read up to make the connections particularly with the article in the evaluation of the blue board project that Simon Poulter did wrote working around the idea that you let the students produce the creativity and have the ownership of it `should probably go in somewhere but also the Futurelab project I filled in a questionnaire for some months ago looking specifically at online resources and teaching and an interesting reconnection on the Art exchange project with Una Shannon back from years travelling and wanting to reconnect thinking about the possibilities of projects that we could do for the coming year online projects possibly using online galleries such as Flickr but I would quite like to do more in the way of database and directly swapping ideas along the lines of the photoshop pingpong and back to the original concept of art exchange which was that it should be a cultural exchange as much as an art exchange particularly if some of the teachers in Barcelona got involved in that while because of language difficulties that we had although I imagine that language translation has moved on just about as quickly as anything else one of the problems that I have been definitely hitting upon recently is people not answering my e-mail and I know when you are busy so many e-mails coming in it is so easy not to be malicious you just say I can’t answer that one now because I need to give it more time and it drops out of the e-mail window and it is very rare to go back and look again so I could really do with a better sorting system myself but the problem I have is other people not answering e-mails I sent three e-mails now to Liz at Adobe connected with summer plans, with Adobe licensing and a trial of Adobe Director 11 which I would very much like to get my hands on and I’ve had no response from her at all I think I need to just go ahead with some plans anyway but also an e-mail to Emma Augusita at the Knowle West media Centre to which you didn’t reply so I need to chase that one up I was supposed to have a meeting with Carolyn Hussan yesterday at Knowle West but that was cancelled so I need to get back onto that an e-mail I sent quite some time ago to Morven at suited and booted never got a response so I have re e-mailed her this morning to try and set up a meeting I think partly meeting with all these groups will be a tremendous help to me because I do tend to act as a bit of a loner which is very isolating in terms of the project I collected a lot of memories from Sidcot old scholars over the last four or five days some of them written and some of them recorded the recordings aren’t particularly good so it may be that we have to work around that somehow that going back to the Simon Poulter quote I don’t want to anticipate what the students might do with it even though they have an extraordinarily short amount of time to work on this project only to lessons so it is going to have to be prepared to quite an extent the other bit on the recording side of things is the telephone Skype in number which seems to be working brilliantly so my feeling with the Park business to get the students doing that to phone in their contributions directly to the Skype in maybe have a team out and about with mobile phones maybe have another team on a computer with Skype in so they can be building the mediascape directly as the reports come in it’s like a team game of some sort with a base camp and the telecommunications going back and forth to add a bit of that feeling of group game team game breaking into teams getting people to rely on each other rather than just sending them all out individually like I often do establish a base camp group.

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