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Life-Bytes in Paris Street
Notes on topics for meetings / training
Will Pollard
Animated Exeter included a careers day and a games day. We have some sample CDs left over from Adobe and Macromedia. The basic skills are around Adobe Creative Suite and Macromedia Studio MX. (There is some Quark knowledge also, somewhere in the building.) Through advertising links with Amazon and Google I will try to get income through relevant promotions. There is also somwe video editing at Life Bytes, and Mac equipment and courses at the Phoenix.
Exeter has a reputation for wi-fi but there is not yet much use or widespread awareness. Psand have done solid work on this over the last three years. Maybe there could be a budget to invite them to talk. A good time would be during the Science Festival (6-10 Sept). This could be a deadline for a check on how much reality there is to ‘wi-fi Exeter’. Because of the geographical constraints on ‘Broadband for Devon’ it sometimes seems there is more wi-fi knowledge in rural areas than there is in Exeter. Maybe that week would be a good chance to invite people to share current information.
The week after is “Alt-C”, looking at e-learning. I work with Exetreme on web design. One project is ‘learnPDF’, looking at ways to link PDF and e-learning. The server software fro ‘collaboration’ is still far too expensive for educational use but there could be experiments. Co-operatives and ‘social economy’ organisations have an interest in this. Alternatives are open source software or email / text.
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