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Training (see also blog at http://wifiexeter.blogspot.com/ )
Update 19th March 2006. Now that Life Bytes exists again in real space,
there can be real time as in Friday April 7th. Meet at Life Bytes, opposite Odeon on Sidwell Street. 11am - 5pm, could continue evening or Saturday, phone to check/request 01392 214214.
Agenda to include report from IPEX, including JDF from the desktop - what is possible with Quark 7 / InDesign. Has the web now got some knowledge authority or is print still the reference? Scribus is now available as an Open Source DTP package. Is it good enough? (There is a Linux computer to try out) Moving back to look at pre-press workflow may suggest new ideas about web design.
Following copy from the time that Life Bytes was on Paris Street
During the first two weeks of September 2004 there was an attempt to connect with two conferences in Exeter, the BA Festival of Science and Alt-C on e-learning. The science experiment will be to check out 'wi-fi Exeter', starting with the assumption that there is almost no knowledge of how wi-fi works. There are some possible 'hotspots' in Exeter but not much use is made of them. For example, Texaco garage on Cowick Street - T mobile , phone box on South Street -BT. Various pubs have games machines that also work with BT.
There is a Freespot at the Southgate Hotel.
Whatever is discovered, Life Bytes still offers broadband on a fixed desktop. Laptops can be added to the network. During Alt-C there will be a look at what is possible assuming broadband exists. Wi-fi may have to be imagined, as for future animation and music festivals. e-Learning uses technology that is avialable anyway as part of the web, including collaboration. A lot of knowledge has been created at cyber cafes though often without formal theories.
Longer term there will be more concentration on Acrobat, especially extensions through Adobe server software. This will be compared with approaches from Macromedia and Open Source. See notes on TRAINING possibilities. Maybe real on Paris Street, updated as theory at this site and at learn9.net
The aim is to end September with three courses. These courses could be done in minutes, over an evening or several weeks.
- Course One – Web Browsing for Beginners
- Course Two – Desk Top Page Design
- Course Three – Cost Accountancy and Free Wi-fi
The timing of 'free wi-fi' could be a long way off. The classic cyber cafe seems to be viable at the moment.
There is a proposal for research into 'Technology Enhanced Learning'. This is intended for academic researchers but there may be links to the discussion at Life Bytes or InXpress. So far the words 'Technology Enhanced Learning' are not adding much to 'e-learning'. If TV is technology then the OU has been doing 'Technology Enhanced Learning' for a while now. We could look at "Web 2.0 Learning". This is beginning to find results on Google, including a podcast. There is a graphic for an imagined Online Information with a Web 2.0 keynote. More later. There is a possibility of links with organisations such as training providers as there is an interest in lifelong learning. The podcast explains how this could include everyday experiences such as mobile phones of internet cafés.
Also stored on this site, a backup copy of Hello Spiders,
the longer 16 page version in PDF.
Questions for IPEX articles
PDF
Open Document
handout for September (29k)
First attempt, possibly Monday evening
(from long ago check on wi-fi Exeter)
starting at the Xchange, Gallery bar Devonshire House. Check at Life Bytes. Please bring a laptop.
Psand offer technical knowledge on wifi and satellite. They will also stream some sound from an Alpha concert in Dorset on 12th September.
NEW Sunday 5th photos
Acrobat 7 supports some collaboration tools in the Reader. A sample file has been created. Please add comments on how this might contribute to learning.
test7.pdf (42k)
Requires Reader 7
NEW Nov 2005
open-pdf.pdf
questions around 'open documents'