Winterlude seems to have started, Learning Technology though Online Information

Last year I started a cloudscape on Cloudworks about a winterlude, a phase for reflection / concentration on UK trade shows

There is a mix of relax / reflect and intensive events

This year the online aspect seems to have merged it all together and started a bit early. Also the print aspect is slowly vanishing from the London area. There will be Northprint next year  but Total Print seems to have gone.

The magazine for Learning Technologies is now published. One story by Neil Lasher is about "just too late" learning, content found in a hurry which is where mobile devices come in. There has to be more about mobiles somehow to make sense of Online Information.

Learning Technology is next to a Skills event. Last year there was quite a lot of tech on the ground floor, it is not too clear what the gap is about.

The Online conference may have more about organisations. Stephen Dale, conference chair, has indicated this in his blog

The agenda last year started with web science and then social media took over the buzz. 30nov - 2 dec

Most of the business information will be in English but there is now an Asian event as well

23-24 march 2011. Most of the stands seem to be booked from the UK. No sign of Highwire yet.

BETT will have the Heppell.net feature moved to fill the gap left by BECTA. As described on the site-

"Each day the stand will feature children working in new ways and guests will be drawn from practitioners in the creative industry sector to talk about the learning skills and strategies that they need as they design the games and new media experiences that have in turn sent the world problem solving and learning."

There was an Open Source Village last year, not sure what form this will take but video is available from other events

Adobe will be at BETT and at Learning Technolgy but not at Online unless someone at the XML section smuggles in something. The future is Flash, video and animation. Apple thinks the same, except Flash as such. Will this appeal to the librarians? or the school admin?  will Twitter offer some guidance?

video from #OPAL10 in a week of quality and learning

I notice there is video from #OPAL10 loading quite quickly on Cloudworks, maybe the same day.

OPAL is looking at e-learning and also quality. Quality is about as high on the learning agenda as at any other event.

Communication is another topic to mashup here perhaps, video for example.

More later, I have been invited to the Oddfellows to video some music performance. The lighting is terrible but they don't seem to mind.

Back to #OPAL10 and World Quality Week tomorrow.

Open Mic, Jaime Leigh wins wildcard vote so story continues

My blog for wifi Exeter has links to a couple of songs from Jaime Leigh, winner of the wild card vote for the regional finals in Portsmouth on Nov 29th.
 
 
Will she get to the O2? At least the Open Mic scene will be better known.
 
More video from Exeter would be welcome. Study of lighting and sound would help. There is a long winter to get though till sunshine lighting can be relied on. And the policy on music support in parks may depend on budgets.

#likemovies different views on copyright, next #likemusic

Last night during #likemovies different views were expressed on instant video of conversations. Should they go straight to YouTube or can anyone claim the right to control a public mediation?

During the day there was promotion for video devices from Kodak and Nokia. They will be used during #likemusic this evening. I will be using a Kodak Zi8, apparently the new model is improved but this works ok. Maybe some people will object to aspects of the edit or more fundamentally. My approach is to record first and discuss later on the grounds that days follow in a certain order. 

Lighting at Oddfellows, could it be worse than NBI?

I tried out some video at the Oddfellows Open Mic. Video later but the stills show the problem.

I guess Hum will not object too much but I will get some feedback before loading much else. the distottion is required just to see anything at all.

Hum + 1 or A-hum will be at Fuel on North Street this Saturday afternoon. Natural daylight possibly. Please bring a camera.

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Google Doc on '80s soundtrack ahead of #likemusic in exeter

I have updated a doc shown previously to presenters on the Baefoot and wheely shows on Phonic

It is still not obvious where this is going, iy is a collection of bits that may fit together sometime. Plan A is to visit the Phoenix Thursday lunchtime around 12 and hope the morning Phonic people are still there. 

I may try to persuade them to check out the Router Boosters near the Old Timers. Damian was recently described as still working with tin cans and bits of string so some cardboard boxes may make some sense for him. He will probably have some way of describing things and we can get more technical later. 

YouTube clip shows prototype router boosters from BT Exeter to Oldtime space

I have loaded a clip about some boxes showing a route from Timepiece to BT in Exeter. I have alwasy been surprised that the space around the building has not been offered special deals on bandwiodth. the castle has several events that could have been broadcast or enhanced. The #likemusic part of #likeminds later this week could get noisy so I may be in the passage space some of the time.

What will happen in Exeter during times when #likeminds is somewhere else? Maybe proper equipment later and also routes to other venues.