Creativity & Media Production

Tom Abbott - Communication Office - University of Warwick
Steve Bowbrick on the BBC - says its going into its 2nd era, this could be said of education.

We are at a moment of explosive creativity, every week we can go to work & see something new, not all brilliant..... but some extraordinary.

we need to take the extra ordinary and make them ordinary, ie,part of normal life /business/ core

Its not about love of technology but organisational behaviour, to be able to adapt & change & respond
To get staff on board, it has to be ordinary, easy not complicated by technology or the language of the new. ( Online diary not blog)

Warwick do Podcasts & icasts, part of the norm ( as in our In a Nutshell project at College)Although used outside expertise to look slick, a bit like sky news reporting, sonow a switch.....
Now taken on by eLearning / IT Services leading projects ....... not the most slick , but of warwick by warwick, a need to support staff & students to be creative ( such as the proposal for e-solutions at EHWLC)

Need a creative environment. Google gives all its staff 20% of their time to innovate
At Warwick is the learning grid space, can video etc, student owned space supported by students
A flatpack video booth (like our EHWLC video diary box, but lighter) with an eeepc in it& web cam)
Warwick has its own blogging system can upload live video capture straight into their blog. Can record lessons, evidence live upload.
Students can come & learn how to use video it is ordinary to use it....becomes part of the core rather than peripheral