EMDWT 9/5/08
10/05/08 12:25 Filed in: Research
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Friday the 9th of May walking up the hill all sorts of things happening I think that I have just finished the slide show for assignment 3 eventually but i might add a few sounds I am thinking maybe sounds that I make like ........ (thinking of Simon' Allen's 6th form party trick) all sorts of different sounds and thinking about sounds in relation to things that happen on the the screen but this morning I thought some more about the talk that we had yesterday from Paul bout making bids and about the relation of that to assignment 5 and thinking about the bids I have made writing them up and writing stuff up for the Adobe conference and the animation conference which I think will be the bulk of assignment 5 and he was talking about the process of how you go about making bids and I was thinking about really just how important getting your name known is and the route that I took from just doing the digital without thinking about it to being sort of discovered by Huw from Hewlett Packard who was a friend of mine is a friend of mine and how badgering me badgering adobe didn't get anywhere until Huw intervened and then I got on to talking on the Adobe stand at Bett and the HP connection all that also got me on at Bett and because of the bett show i then became an Adobe education leader and also that got me on to the Apple cart as it where but the most interesting set of connections was last summer I think when I went to the Adobe conference in San Francisco and there I talk to Merlin John the IT journalist and I talked to him I already knew him from the Apple connection I guess I had already introduced myself to him so he wrote an article bout what I was doing in San Francisco sitting in the part the central square and because of that article I was actually asked to speak at Bett this January in my own right and I think probably because of that I got the article written (partly) about me in the Guardian newspaper and because of that article there was interest from the states from Adobe doing a case study so they all sort of linked one to another to another to another and it is not necessarily in the least bit remarkable what I do but it is remarkable how the connections being in the right place at the right time and doing something that is interesting and over the last ten years or so digital has taken off in the most extraordinary way and I have always been at the sort of forefront of it and although I am not a programmer and I am not that good at it myself necessarily staying at that leading edge is pretty difficult as well but I do have a particular niche and my particular niche at the moment is being an art teacher who is into digital in the classroom that is sort of actually quite a limited area that makes what I am doing quite particular and it is quite funny in a way for me to be slightly miffed that when I go to give this talk in San Francisco this summer there will be two people sort of talking sort of in a similar area and thinking will they be better than me jealousy creeping in right thinking again about assignment five and the bibliography in particular and serendipity again there is a thread currently on the Adobe chat whatever about all the blogs that people are keeping up with someone posted 300 blogs that she 500 I think that she keeps up with God knows how she does that two or there will do but definitely the bibliography in a sense is not just the news groups that I keep up with the Apple and the Adobe news group the Becta and the Bett b news group but the blogs other people are looking at and the blogs that I am looking at as well as the books in my cupboard that I have to look through so there is my bibliography but also the fact that I have been looking watching a lot of films and animations as well as reading books this is all part of my research part of what I am doing the websites is more difficult because surfing the web you cant sort of well it would be very difficult and rather stupid do keep a trail of all the things that I have been looking at but it is also a bit difficult to forget to remember to keep the main ones but I suppose a few like the Apple the thing from Steve Jobs that I read a couple of days ago Assignment 5 here we go
Friday the 9th of May walking up the hill all sorts of things happening I think that I have just finished the slide show for assignment 3 eventually but i might add a few sounds I am thinking maybe sounds that I make like ........ (thinking of Simon' Allen's 6th form party trick) all sorts of different sounds and thinking about sounds in relation to things that happen on the the screen but this morning I thought some more about the talk that we had yesterday from Paul bout making bids and about the relation of that to assignment 5 and thinking about the bids I have made writing them up and writing stuff up for the Adobe conference and the animation conference which I think will be the bulk of assignment 5 and he was talking about the process of how you go about making bids and I was thinking about really just how important getting your name known is and the route that I took from just doing the digital without thinking about it to being sort of discovered by Huw from Hewlett Packard who was a friend of mine is a friend of mine and how badgering me badgering adobe didn't get anywhere until Huw intervened and then I got on to talking on the Adobe stand at Bett and the HP connection all that also got me on at Bett and because of the bett show i then became an Adobe education leader and also that got me on to the Apple cart as it where but the most interesting set of connections was last summer I think when I went to the Adobe conference in San Francisco and there I talk to Merlin John the IT journalist and I talked to him I already knew him from the Apple connection I guess I had already introduced myself to him so he wrote an article bout what I was doing in San Francisco sitting in the part the central square and because of that article I was actually asked to speak at Bett this January in my own right and I think probably because of that I got the article written (partly) about me in the Guardian newspaper and because of that article there was interest from the states from Adobe doing a case study so they all sort of linked one to another to another to another and it is not necessarily in the least bit remarkable what I do but it is remarkable how the connections being in the right place at the right time and doing something that is interesting and over the last ten years or so digital has taken off in the most extraordinary way and I have always been at the sort of forefront of it and although I am not a programmer and I am not that good at it myself necessarily staying at that leading edge is pretty difficult as well but I do have a particular niche and my particular niche at the moment is being an art teacher who is into digital in the classroom that is sort of actually quite a limited area that makes what I am doing quite particular and it is quite funny in a way for me to be slightly miffed that when I go to give this talk in San Francisco this summer there will be two people sort of talking sort of in a similar area and thinking will they be better than me jealousy creeping in right thinking again about assignment five and the bibliography in particular and serendipity again there is a thread currently on the Adobe chat whatever about all the blogs that people are keeping up with someone posted 300 blogs that she 500 I think that she keeps up with God knows how she does that two or there will do but definitely the bibliography in a sense is not just the news groups that I keep up with the Apple and the Adobe news group the Becta and the Bett b news group but the blogs other people are looking at and the blogs that I am looking at as well as the books in my cupboard that I have to look through so there is my bibliography but also the fact that I have been looking watching a lot of films and animations as well as reading books this is all part of my research part of what I am doing the websites is more difficult because surfing the web you cant sort of well it would be very difficult and rather stupid do keep a trail of all the things that I have been looking at but it is also a bit difficult to forget to remember to keep the main ones but I suppose a few like the Apple the thing from Steve Jobs that I read a couple of days ago Assignment 5 here we go