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September 1, 2009

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Digital Transport event feedback

July 9, 2009

I recently helped organise the “Where do you think You’re going” event that was held by Newcastle University at Hoults Yard. This post is a quick bulleted list of my feedback, and also a highlight of material from James Burke. Thoughts Content Eclectic and genuinely thought-provoking Presenters were clearly experts in their fields [well, from [...]

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Bigging up Cloud Camp / Seminar, & ‘Wii are the Champions’

July 7, 2009

In wanting to help Ross Cooney plug these events, I thought I’d re-produce his e-mail of today: “I am working with the organisers of a few IT related events based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 29th July and was thinking that you might be interested in attending some or all of these events: CloudSeminar CloudCamp Wii [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #7: ‘Marking your self-published IP’; ‘Games driving other Interactive Content’;‘Heavy Rain’

June 24, 2009

Panel Discussion: ‘Game Exposure – The naked truth about marketing your self published IP’ Sponsored in partnership by BAFTA and Northern Film + Media. Chaired by Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software with Martyn Brown (Development Director, Team 17), Mark Morris (Managing Director, Introversion), Paul Farley (Managing Director, Tag Games). ‘How games can be used [...]

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Barcamp North East 2 feedback #bcne2

June 5, 2009

This post is about my experience at the Barcamp held immediately after Thinking Digital, at the Centurion Bar in central Newcastle upon Tyne. I didn’t know what to expect from the day, but I thought it would be interesting to go along and test-drive the whole experience. I had a nebulous idea that Barcamps were [...]

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Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Rob Colling Matt Ridley, author of Genome Bob Baskin, Spotlight Analysis Hans Rosling via videolink from Stockholm Tom Scott, York University Live blog Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom)

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Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Paul Miller, School of Everything Harry Drnec, former CEO, Red Bull UK Dr James TerKeurst, The Institute of Digital Innovation Mike Southon, The Financial Times Live blog Session One: (Present at the Creation) Technorati Tags: north east england,gateshead,education,ideas,thinking digital,media,innovation

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#RSCN09 – Learning in Virtual Worlds conference: my thoughts

April 22, 2009

This post is my immediate feedback from the event at the University of Sunderland yesterday, details of which are here. A great opportunity to find out more about Virtual Worlds, the issues involved and how best to use them. Also some excellent advice about how to help those in your organisation wishing to exploit VWs [...]

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Virtual Worlds in Education – Keynote

April 21, 2009

The afternoon’s main presenation by Kate Boardman, with a very helpful exposition of how best to help those who come to you wanting to commission builds in Virtual Worlds. Virtual Worlds in Education: Keynote Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,second life,sl,how to,useful,helpful,north east england,keynote,learning in virtual worlds

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