04 May 2008
EMDWT 9/5/08
10/05/08 12:25 Filed in: Research
EMDWT9508
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
EMDWT 6/5/08
10/05/08 11:51 Filed in: journal
EMDWT95082
The 6th of April (6th of May actually... ed) , heading up the hill wondering how all this stuff is going to be assessed really cause assessment is coming up fairly soon and I wouldn't want to do it thinking about assessment because that is what I am doing at the present as well or will be shortly How do you settle this because in real time you have to go through it all presumably if you were to do it properly and that would take a ridiculous amount of time where as with a sketchbook you can flick through it pretty quick and get a sense of it get a sense of the scale which you simply cannot do with a website or digital media it is much more hidden much more difficult but anyway I am going down this route because it is all about my explorations in digital media and what I do here I have spent a long time over the past two days probably far too long writing up a script for assignment three so that I can experiment with producing it as a podcast umm finding all the umms that I use and actually quite extraordinary writing out a full script it ended up being about 5000 words and then re recording that i was thinking that I might just read it but it is so bloody boring when it is just read so putting it back into conversational style as I re recorded the presentation and I find it incredible how the language is different as I speak it than as I write it the process in some ways would be to read it speak it read it speak it transcribing it each time and you end up with a highly polished bit but I haven't got the time to do that to much to do I still have the first assignment to produce as well I have been playing about this morning with how I put it on the web turn it into a movie getting the size down as much as I can and getting the streaming right or perhaps playing around with putting it up on garage band, not into garage band, you tube put it up , think about web 2 putting it up on you tube I think that that is probably going to be the quickest easiest and best route to go. So what else have I been thinking about in relation to assignment 1 I have a talk coming up soon in San Francisco, it doesn't quite fit the criteria but I have got to prepare that talk to there is not reason why that should not be a part of assignment 5 that is something that I am very definitely doing and I have got to prepare all the stuff for my key stage three ers over the next three weeks so that will be a major part of assignment 5 its all go here is all I can say
The 6th of April (6th of May actually... ed) , heading up the hill wondering how all this stuff is going to be assessed really cause assessment is coming up fairly soon and I wouldn't want to do it thinking about assessment because that is what I am doing at the present as well or will be shortly How do you settle this because in real time you have to go through it all presumably if you were to do it properly and that would take a ridiculous amount of time where as with a sketchbook you can flick through it pretty quick and get a sense of it get a sense of the scale which you simply cannot do with a website or digital media it is much more hidden much more difficult but anyway I am going down this route because it is all about my explorations in digital media and what I do here I have spent a long time over the past two days probably far too long writing up a script for assignment three so that I can experiment with producing it as a podcast umm finding all the umms that I use and actually quite extraordinary writing out a full script it ended up being about 5000 words and then re recording that i was thinking that I might just read it but it is so bloody boring when it is just read so putting it back into conversational style as I re recorded the presentation and I find it incredible how the language is different as I speak it than as I write it the process in some ways would be to read it speak it read it speak it transcribing it each time and you end up with a highly polished bit but I haven't got the time to do that to much to do I still have the first assignment to produce as well I have been playing about this morning with how I put it on the web turn it into a movie getting the size down as much as I can and getting the streaming right or perhaps playing around with putting it up on garage band, not into garage band, you tube put it up , think about web 2 putting it up on you tube I think that that is probably going to be the quickest easiest and best route to go. So what else have I been thinking about in relation to assignment 1 I have a talk coming up soon in San Francisco, it doesn't quite fit the criteria but I have got to prepare that talk to there is not reason why that should not be a part of assignment 5 that is something that I am very definitely doing and I have got to prepare all the stuff for my key stage three ers over the next three weeks so that will be a major part of assignment 5 its all go here is all I can say
EMDWT 1/5/08
10/05/08 11:47 Filed in: Projects
EMDWT1508
Thinking about this animation project again and thinking what a good idea it would be firstly for them to write it all down so that they will know exactly what they are doing with a pro-forma so that they can put in their groups they can explain in a paragraph what it is that they are doing and then a prize for the winner and maybe we could do that either by a vote we could put it up on the internet and have a voting system, a five start system so that they vote for their favourite or we could get students at Roehampton university to vote from them or we could get all sorts of people to vote for the best one there will be prize for the best that well provide them with an incentive as to the MA well I am getting wobbly over the next assignment because I am not quite sure what I am doing and I am running out of time again I have got a tutorial this afternoon so I have been scrabbling around with flash and with my website but I really want a lot more content in it having lots of ideas mind the animated people that are all mouth another animation of me that is very simple things that we could so in flash like the press of a door bell that takes you in, the photograph that I took yesterday at the Holburne Museum which was a superbly successful trip and that really is sort of the main part of assignment five form me getting bid so that I have a reason for doing what it is that I am doing the Becta bid that failed the RTC bid that I have got to write out and the pervasive media bid, got three starts not bad but anyway I haven't got any thoughts this morning so I am just going to carry on with my walk.
Thinking about this animation project again and thinking what a good idea it would be firstly for them to write it all down so that they will know exactly what they are doing with a pro-forma so that they can put in their groups they can explain in a paragraph what it is that they are doing and then a prize for the winner and maybe we could do that either by a vote we could put it up on the internet and have a voting system, a five start system so that they vote for their favourite or we could get students at Roehampton university to vote from them or we could get all sorts of people to vote for the best one there will be prize for the best that well provide them with an incentive as to the MA well I am getting wobbly over the next assignment because I am not quite sure what I am doing and I am running out of time again I have got a tutorial this afternoon so I have been scrabbling around with flash and with my website but I really want a lot more content in it having lots of ideas mind the animated people that are all mouth another animation of me that is very simple things that we could so in flash like the press of a door bell that takes you in, the photograph that I took yesterday at the Holburne Museum which was a superbly successful trip and that really is sort of the main part of assignment five form me getting bid so that I have a reason for doing what it is that I am doing the Becta bid that failed the RTC bid that I have got to write out and the pervasive media bid, got three starts not bad but anyway I haven't got any thoughts this morning so I am just going to carry on with my walk.