http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=395 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:24:01 +1000 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:24:01 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1954 In fact the entire notion of subjects needs to be questioned Sir Ken Robinson says The idea of separate subjects that have nothing in common offends the principle of dynamism School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary In December the Rose review the biggest inquiry into primary schooling in a generation also recommended moving away from the idea of subjects Sir Jim Rose said a bloated curriculum was leaving children with shallow knowledge and understanding The review proposed half a dozen cross-curricular themes instead understanding English communication and languages mathematical understanding science and technological understanding human social and environmental understanding understanding physical education and wellbeing and understanding the arts and design Robinson believes the curriculum should be much more personalised Learning happens in the minds and souls not in the databases of multiple-choice tests And why are we so fixated by age groups he asks Let a 10-year-old learn with their younger and older peers We put too high a premium on knowing the single right answer Robinson claims But he says he is not in principle opposed to standardised tests such as Sats Used in the right way they can provide essential data to support and improve education The problem comes when these tests become more than simply a tool of education and turn into the focus of it he argues Jessica Shepherd 10 February 2009 The Guardian http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1954 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:24:01 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1949 Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba a traditional wooden house in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the town of Kirillov Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA The photograph was created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909 as part of his survey of the Russian Empire The image was created using an early 3-colour technique and was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1949 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:58:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1947 Ministers have confirmed their intention to abolish RDAs Regional Development Agencies and support the creation of Local Economic Partnerships LEPs to be in place by March 2012 at the latest They have also indicated that some of the RDAs current functions will continue at a national rather than local level The Government has stated that a White Paper will be published in the autumn which will give greater detail and we expect clarify a number of issues e such as which work will be carried out locally which nationally and which not at all RDAs accept this change is coming and are committed to helping ensure as smooth a transition to the new arrangements as possible Our main task in the meantime remains to support economic recovery and future growth England s Regional Development Agencies 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1947 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:23:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1945 The UK Film Council became one of the highest profile quangos to be axed by the coalition government after culture secretary Jeremy Hunt unexpectedly announced its abolition In a raft of mergings streamlinings and closures Hunt also axed the Museums Libraries and Archives council MLA Film producer Tim Bevan who chairs the council said Abolishing the most successful film support organisation the UK has ever had is a bad decision imposed without any consultation or evaluation People will rightly look back on today s announcement and say it was a big mistake driven by short-term thinking and political expediency British film which is one of the UK s more successful growth industries deserves better Since it was created by Labour in 2000 the UKFC with 75 staff has been responsible for handing out more than pound 160m of lottery money to over 900 films Successes range from Bend it Like Beckham to Gosford Park to Fish Tank with the occasional dud - notably Sex Lives of the Potato Men - along the way Last August the Labour government began consultation on merging the film council with the BFI Mark Brown and Maev Kennedy 26 July 2010 Guardian News and Media Limited Fig 1 Centurion is a Path eacute Productions presentation in association with the UK Film Council of a Celador Films Production of A Film by Neil Marshall http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1945 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:18:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Posterous is the easy way to get content online using e-mail You can e-mail content of just about any type such as rich text photos music video Word Powerpoint Excel PDF documents and zip archives to us We will post it online in the most web-friendly format then reply with a public URL that can be forwarded or shared with friends Account creation is never required but if a user does create an account posts from your various e-mail addresses work home and mobile phone can all be integrated into one blog Posterous Inc Fig 1 Susie Blackmon s Posterous weblog available at http susieblackmon com http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Better Place Australia is part of a global company dedicated to zero emissions driving We will enable the mass adoption of electric vehicles EVs in Australia by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy affordable and attractive for motorists to adopt and drive electric vehicles The key barriers to the mass adoption of EVs in Australia and globally have been range anxiety the cost and risk of battery purchase and the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid To overcome range anxiety - the fear of EV drivers that their battery will run out of power - Better Place provides a personal charge spot at home access to a network of charge spots at work and in public access to instant recharge through battery swap stations and in-car services to help drivers know when and where to recharge The system of battery swapping also helps overcome the cost and risk of battery purchase The driver s subscription to Better Place covers use of a battery and the ability to swap and go at any swap station Rather than pay upfront drivers pay a monthly fee which covers their battery use Better Place manages the risk and performance of the pool of batteries by tracking their capability and use through the battery swap stations Better Place manages the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid by using software that coordinates the charge spots so that the charging needs of customers are met within network capacity constraints This helps make the electricity grid more efficient and significantly reduces the need for additional generation transmission and distribution infrastructure Better Place 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:10:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1935 Aryan Kaganof s SMS Sugar Man has either the dubious or celebratory distinction - depending on your point of view of these kinds of things - of being the first feature film shot entirely on a cell phone specifically the Sony Ericsson W900i Given the film s strong sexual content Sony probably won t be championing the film any time soon But in their absence I will To Kaganof s grand credit the technique in which the film was shot never comes across as being gimmicky The majority of the movie is shot as any traditional movie is shot despite the unique camera being used Every once in awhile we do get a direct POV shot from one of the characters holding his or her own camera but this is used very sparingly and is thus unobtrusive Scenes are mostly lit and executed as if filmed with a traditional camera What s most surprising about the movie is that one might presuppose - or at least I did - that it would be comprised of mostly quick cuts I don t own a cell phone with a camera but I had assumed one of them could only hold small files for short scenes Against expectation Kaganof comprises SMS Sugar Man with fairly longish shots and gives the film a very lyrical tempo Mike Everleth 17 November 2008 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1935 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:56:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1919 Our enterprise resource toolkit contains tried and tested methods for teaching enterprise skills to creative individuals who are thinking about setting up a business Starting a business with no experience can be daunting That s why we ve developed the Enterprise Toolkit to help creative individuals take their bright ideas and turn them into successful businesses Building on our experience of running Starter for 6 the toolkit will provide guidance activities downloadable worksheets and case studies to challenge individuals to draw on their creative and personal strengths The toolkit is accompanied by tutor notes - supportive information aimed at university professionals and enterprise organisations that support creative individuals in the early stages of their enterprise career Launch your own creative business NESTA http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1919 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:07:20 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1918 Charles Handy speaks at leadership All-Stars in downtown Los Angeles during the Drucker Centennial celebration Charles is a globally renowned business expert and is often regarded as Britainos greatest management thinker He has been an executive a theorist a management thinker and a student of business all his life In 2008 he taught the Odyssey Course at The Drucker School while serving as a Scholar in Residence Leaders-Coach com http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1918 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:32:18 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1913 The Archigram Archival Project AAP is a purely digital resource displaying digital versions of works held in many different collections The main collections are the Archigram Archive held and run by Dennis Crompton and the Ron Herron Archive held and run by Simon Herron but work from other personal Archigram collections and public collections has also been made available through this current project The AAP focuses on the main Archigram period of 1961-1974 but includes all the projects both before and after these dates which have been included in the project list of the Archigram Archives at the time of doing the project The main omissions from the Archigram Archival Project website are the films television programmes and audio-visual material which for technical or copyright reasons cannot be included at this stage Centre for Experimental Practice Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1913 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:31:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1904 Gibbs Knapper and Piccinin 2009 describe a perceived shift of organisational culture over time from collegial to bureaucratic to corporate and finally to a fourth entrepreneurial culture characterised by a focus on competence and an orientation to the outside world involving continuous learning in a turbulent context The management style involves devolved and dispersed leadership Decisionmaking is flexible and emphasises accountable professional expertise Students are seen as partners o p 6 UCA is considering whether an entrepreneurial culture is most suited to its ambitions for increased internal and external collaboration and if so the associated consequences for the working relationships between leaders and academics and the degree of academic autonomy If universities were to accept a need to change their cultures and become more entrepreneurial then it is possible that this might lead to confusion amongst staff as they experience aspects of different types of culture Gibbs Knapper and Piccinin 2009 note that this model of four organisational cultures is oversimplified and that is possible for individuals to hold conflicting perceptions of the organisational culture at the same timeo p 6 Nevertheless the model does seem to be useful in helping to reflect on the type of culture that might be desirable for a university offering art and design subjects Paul Coyle 2010 Coyle P 2010 Crossing Boundaries - Creative Spaces Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art Design and Media Genk Belgium http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1904 Sun, 30 May 2010 22:51:34 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1900 This document has been created to help people understand the radical transformation digital content will have on the creative industries and to provide businesses with outline areas of opportunity where innovation is most likely to occur In the past decade digital content has become a part of everyday life for all Yet the changes that will occur in the next 5-10 years will be profound They have the power to alter the way we live work play learn and help us to live longer more fulfilling lives These changes will substantially alter existing business models and markets Many historical innovations such as new recording formats more powerful consoles and new advertising media were incremental They changed formats and created new opportunities but they did not alter the industrial landscape The changes taking place now are paradigm shifts that challenge the value chain as a whole These changes represent huge opportunities or threats if not understood For games designers it may mean the migration from console platforms to cloud based applications and casual gaming communities For TV programmes it may mean the end of broadcast where their content must be found and consumed on numerous devices For publishers it may mean the migration to new consumption platforms that radically alter distribution channels For industrial designers it may mean the need to move from object creation to experience creation For all it means the need to radically shift their thinking The following pages outline the key areas highlighted by a project that has engaged with hundreds of key stakeholders across the creative industries and technology industries seeking to map the landscape of the future of digital content Kelechi Amadi March 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1900 Sat, 29 May 2010 20:13:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1898 Google transformed its ever-changing website logo into a game of Pac-Man on Friday to celebrate the game s impending 30th anniversary The company says that the widget on the Google home page is its first ever interactive playable doodle By pressing Insert Coin where the I m Feeling Lucky button usually appears you can start the game up and control Pac-Man with the arrow keys Insert two coins and two players can play simultaneously controlling Ms Pac-Man with the WASD keys Google says the doodle will stay active for 48 hours Much like the original game it has been programmed to glitch and end at the 256th screen On May 22 1980 Namco put the first Pac-Man arcade machine on location test in Shibuya Tokyo Chris Kohler Wired Magazine 21 May 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1898 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:46:22 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1877 TinEye is a reverse image search engine You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from how it is being used if modified versions of the image exist or to find higher resolution versions TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords metadata or watermarks Id eacute e Inc Canada http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1877 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:19:18 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1874 Corporate returns are under pressure from far more than the recession The patterns we ve uncovered span decades and deeply affect even the highest performing companies with the single greatest driver of these challenges and indeed future opportunities being our underlying digital infrastructure Regardless of when the economy shifts back to an upturn the long-term implications for continued erosion of return-on-assets will continue We developed the Shift Index a new economic indicator that suggests the current recession is masking long-term competitive challenges for U S businesses John Hagel III and John Seely Brown J H III Brown J S et al 2009 Measuring the forces of long-term change The 2009 Shift Index Deloitte Center for the Edge http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1874 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:37 +1000