Deni and Simon’s Wedding

Went to Deni and Si’s wedding on Sunday evening and shot a couple of short clips. Had a great time and met up with half the Art & Design crew from where I work.
Deni’s dad’s band was playing and they did a fantastic job. I fully rocked out to their cover of “Get your Motor […]

Hedgefield House Hotel

Hmmm. I went to stay at Hedgfield House Hotel last night and was very disappointed..
Firstly I looked on the web for a room and went all the way through to the online booking form to book a double with ensuite, only to find that when I phoned up to check… (just to make sure), the […]

End of the Conference… for me.

Well, I am in the airport, connected to the BT OpenZone with the last of my 24hr minutes package writing the last entry from Belfast. I can say this has been a very interesting few days and I have met and worked with some very interesting people. The conference was well organised and the hospitality […]

Day 3 of EFODL: Workshop on Knowledge Objects

Edvard Houtkoop and Stefan Schuur, Interactum Educative Federative

The Interactum: ELO Samen project began in May 2004 and ends in June 2007. The transfer of knowledge is ready to roll out to the seven colleges involved. The shared common goal is Implimenting VLE in accordance with curriculum goals and ‘acting and learning together’.
The focal point has […]

Day 3 of EFODL: keynote address 7

Coen Free, President of King Willem 1st College
Title: Living and Learning in 3D

Coen began his presentation with the intro from 2001: A space odyssey. The development of technology over the last 100 years has seen huge progression.
Some hard facts:
More information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000 years.
Authorities no […]

Videocasting Workshop

Today I attended a workshop on “generating online learning with video clips”. The event was run by Toon Rekkers from the Netherlands King Willem 1st College.
The presentation began with a short powerpoint and demonstration of the videos created as learning objects by some of the students. This was fairly standard stuff, looking like mobile phone […]

test video post

This is pretty amazing stuff…. I was not expecting this to be so easy. I simply shot a movie on my mobile phone, bluetoothed it to my computer then uploaded it with tags etc through screen cast….

Web Design Survey

I just took it.. Why don’t you have a try and help mr Zeldman with his information gathering.

Launch Day

Today we are pleased to be able to launch the Newcastle College Art & Design HE Website complete with photos, Podcasts and Videocasts, blogs and other imagery.
We look to the staff and our students for inspiration, work, success stories as well as reports on best practice and HE Education in general from time to time.
With […]