Richard Millwood

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Dimensions in creative work

July 21st, 2010 No Comments

In talking about the issues of user-generated content with friends Stephen and Joy recently, Stephen reminded me of this presentation slide I used to show in 2004 in the context of a growing movement to engage children in the filming and composition of digital video. The push by specialists such as the British Film Institute [...]

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Content is muck

November 24th, 2008 3 Comments

I have been reading  the report ‘On-line Innovation in Higher Education‘ submitted by Sir Ron Cooke to John Denham recently and I’m not impressed. It seems to be but a variation on the ‘content is king’ theme and, by its own standards, seems to miss many points. The title of this blog ‘Content is muck’ [...]

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YouTube

August 4th, 2008 1 Comment

This was the best hour or so I’ve spent on YouTube….  about YouTube. It helped me to see development and change happening in YouTube usage and to feel that there is still a way to go to be mature as a population online, but what an exciting journey? Much more insightful debate at the Digital [...]

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Surprise, surprise

May 25th, 2008 2 Comments

Tara Brabazon in the Times Higher Education Supplement when discussing coursework masters degree courses: “They are squeezed between the crowd control of undergraduate education and the over-bureaucratised doctoral programmes that dislodge the historically functional relationship between a PhD candidate and supervisor.” She draws attention to the remarkable creativity of her students, when unleashed with a [...]

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