The Need for a new form of education ...

"The pace of change and the evolving demands of customers are such that firms can no longer depend only on internal capabilities to meet external needs. Nor can they depend only on tightly coupled relationships with a handful of business partners to keep up with customer desires for speed, innovation, and control. Instead, firms must engage and cocreate in a dynamic fashion with everyone - partners, competitors, educators, government and most of all customers. To innovate and succeed, the new mass collaboration must become part of every leader's playbook and lexicon. Learning how to engage and cocreate with a shifting set of self-organised partners is becoming an essential skill, as important as budgeting, R&D and planning."
Tapscott and Williams Wikinomics (2007)

Embryonic Animation

As well as getting creative with web design I've also been trying out some animation with Goanimate! an online animation tool. It's very simple to use and even lets you upload your own images and content to use in your animations. My six year old daughter help me make the first animation below, while I did the second one all on my own.

GoAnimate.com: Love Rabbits by douglasgreig


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

GoAnimate.com: Naturally Hazardous by douglasgreig


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Getting to grips with Website Design

I have been playing around with Weebly for about a week now, and have managed to make a couple. I have enjoyed the chance to blend different media together, to store and share information and to potentially get feedback from people. I am also very aware of how it has challenged and pushed my own creativity which is something I'm now excited about getting to grips with some students later in the autumn.

Check out my efforts at:

tallisa2geography.weebly.com/index.html

tallisa2units.weebly.com/index.html

douglasgreig.weebly.com/index.html

The accessibility and intuitive interface in Weebly has really opened up my understanding of the potential of Web 2.0 applications and how they allow those with little expertise to begin to work with some very complex processes such as animation, web design, digital avatars and video compilation.