Last night I went to an interesting seminar at the Watershed Media Centre called ‘Cultural Learning: Young people – schools – creative industries’. It was all about the 8 month relationship the Watershed have built up with Fairfield High School, which has seen a teacher being based at the Watershed one day a week, film & TV professionals…
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Unlike many MPs now the centre of public wrath, I will declare a blatent conflict of interest. The website I am promoting here was made by me for a project I facilitated. So in the interests of good old fashioned moral transparency – please go and visit it, it’s absolutely amazing! Thank you. http://museummedia.wordpress.com/
Earlier this week, John Gibson, chair of the Independent Schools Association, told its annual conference that many children are growing up in “prison-like environments” because they are surrounded by technology and don’t play outdoors enough. (See the BBC story here.) Even though I’m an advocate of media literacy and the role of digital media in education, I agree…
I’ve been talking too much lately, so let’s hear from someone else for a while. This is Dr Jared Ball talking to DaveyD over at his TV Channel. He comes at this subject from a different perspective from the one that talks about Hip Hop as a form of ‘urban media’ via the conscious mouths of…
I attended the informative “Your Media, Your Tools” dissemination event at Leicester’s De Montfort University run by the Community Media Association (CMA) last Friday. It included a presentation by Ofcom talking about their media literacy agenda, as well as radio and video groups from across the UK showcasing the results of their involvement in CMA’s…
The decision has been made to drop the charges against the French lad who translated the Potter book and posted it onto the internet. Apparently the decision was made on the back of discussions with JK Rowling. Thank god sense has prevailed. Now just give the boy a high paying job! Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6943650.stm
UPDATE: Community Media South West have published a new report: MAKING IT WORK: An Enquiry into how companies in the Community Media Sector recruit and retain skilled freelancersPublished by – CMSW / Blueboard – Jan 2007 Research by Ella Bissett Johnson Edited by Shawn Sobers, and Steve Gear Synopsis This report is a timely and…
10 days ago I went to the Houses of Parliament with my comrades Emma Agusita and Cathy Poole, for a seminar discussing Media Literacy, hosted Danny Alexander MP and the Associate Parliamentary Media Literacy Group. After introductions by Danny, Ian Hargreaves (Dir of Ofcom & Researcher at Cardiff Uni), and Peter Packer (Strategy Adviser to…
Dr Shawn Naphtali Sobers -------- thoughts, images and things. 