Friday 26 February 2010

Experinces of a BAPP student

Jessica Clipp kindly offered to ‘speak about her experience as a BAPP student’. I think this shows the impact this had on Jessica as a learner, and also how it influenced her employer to give her a full time job.

Example of a WBL Project

Now we are thinking about the topic for projects, I though it might be worthwhile to see a graduate speaking about a project. Jessica Clipp graduated last year from BAPP and works at the Chickenshed Theatre. Here is Jessica speaking about her project. Jessica undertook by any standards a complex project that had many dimensions. It might be a helpful exercise to listen a couple of times to the video and note down what you thought the issues might be.

Monday 1 February 2010

The Virtual Revolution

Check out The Virtual Revolution - 1. The Great Levelling?

Quoted from the BBC (accessed 1.40pm 1/2/2010) Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names - including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's inventor - she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.

In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit.