Category: Creativity
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Why my video-production-for-idiots wish list has Instagram to blame.
I’m trying to set my kids up to do small-scale, light-weight, video production totally on an iPad 3. The trouble is that the iPad is not really designed for it. Seamless end-to-end video production is still some way off for the iPad. By comparison, my experience as a amateur happy snapper photographer has been quite…
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
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Jaron Lanier is my guru… He thinks that I’m not a gadget and this book – which is his first – is a rant against the negative effects of technology including the internet.
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Grown Up Digital
How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…
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Minecraft taught my kids everything they needed for life
My kids are hooked on Minecraft. In case you don’t know it’s a computer game. They play it on the iPad. I think there’s a PC version but I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that Minecraft has taught them everything they need to live a fulfilling life. I’m not sure…
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It’s time to change your business model if you work in education
If you work in education or do any kind of training then chances are you work with a business model from last century. What’s more, you probably work with a model of education that dates from the century before. Or the one before that… Seriously. Perhaps if you’re like us, disturbing thoughts like these have…