I’m resigning my teaching post this summer and reflecting on both what I have and have not achieved. In particular, what has been wrong with the course I have run and what a qualification might consist of, if I were to design it from scratch.
The bottom line for running courses is enrolment, retention and [...]
They call it professional development, I call it being let out to play. I took an orchestration job for 2 composers writing a score for an ice ballet theatre production. (Tim Duncan and Ed Barnwell composing for the Imperial Ice Stars). My role entailed turning the audio and midi data from the writers into notated [...]
In ed tech blogs, we read a lot about new web tools and services and the more I read, the more I realise there is no one–size-fits-all. The diversity of ‘habits’ is remarkable!
One way for newbies to web 2.0 technologies can be helped, is to demonstrate our habits and the SPLICE project is after [...]
It’s inevitable that one is drawn to certain web tools and services, whilst missing out on others. I’ve not been quick to latch onto widgets but I came across dizzler.com which gets the social media thing just right for me! Not only does the player look like an iphone (Dear Santa….) it brings [...]
It was one of those days (yesterday) when I really felt a part of both the creative industry and the global community. A day when all aspects of my endeavour came together sweetly - my passions for social web tools (for connecting and learning), the evolution of creative industries and string arranging! Looking back through [...]
