http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk At the crossroads of publishing and new media Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bow Street Runner represents Channel 4 Education's first real foray into the world of delivering informal education via alternate-reality games. This one takes the users - it is aimed at the C4 Education heartland of 14-19yr olds - into an immersive environment, using impressive 3-d backgrounds blended with live-action video ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/28/c4-education-strategy-bears-fruit/ Assignment #55 Photograph a significant outfit "This is what I was wearing when I finally truly understood that he was breaking my heart." Megs Elyse I can’t get over Learning To Love You More. No that’s not an oblique reference to my ailing love life, it’s a website that has blown ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/19/learning-to-love-you-more/ So the BETT awards for educational technology have been announced and from looking at the winners we can only conclude that standards have been raised. The winning products are bright, original and versatile resources that fulfil the needs of teachers and pupils alike. Upon assessing the winners, I found the ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/19/bett-awards-2008/ As part of a series of debates on education, the Economist website held an "Oxford-style" online debate this week on the subject of "Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?". Ewan McIntosh, of edublogger fame, spoke for the proposition and Michael Bugeja, Director of Greenlee School of Journalism and ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2008/01/18/social-networking-does-it-bring-positive-change-to-education/ Happy New Year! The Online team attended BETT last week to meet with our friends in the industry and to see what new offerings were on the market. We had a few products on display on our clients' stands, including BEAM Education's Number Challenge, which was nominated for a BETT Award, and ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2008/01/14/bett-2008/ As Ewan McIntosh noted on his blog before the event, the strapline for this event: "How is social media shaping the future of learning?", gave our panelists a broad topic to discuss, but at Matt Locke's capable hands the debate soon narrowed down to a few overall memes: - Use of ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2007/11/28/education-unbound/ I’d have hoped my first post would have concerned something grander than the misappropriation of features in video games. But hey. When I was at university (all those…weeks, ago), and trawling the very depths of YouTube as any self respecting student should, I would occasionally stumble across videos mysteriously tagged: ‘machinima’. ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2007/11/20/machinima-paradiso/ Hopefully, this post will soon be long forgotten, buried under a mountain of useful information and ideas, but for now it stands out as a lone voice on the new Online Creative Communications blog. The Online team are going to use this blog as a means of starting discussions with you ... http://blog.onlinecc.co.uk/index.php/2007/10/23/the-first-post/