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Skillset’s Publishing Sector Coordinator, Louise Franklin, reports on an initiative we are supporting this year. She writes: “We’re delighted to be supporting the Shine School Media Awards, which have been set up by The Stationers’ Foundation in association with leading media trade bodies and employers. They build on the success of the Scottish School Magazine Competition, launched . . . → Read More: Shine 2011 School Media Awards Over the last few years the acronym STEM has increasingly entered debates within the collective creative industries, and also at Skillset. Maybe now is the time to be promoting STEAM with the powerful addition of Art, and the way it harnesses multidisciplinary innovation and what’s more, adds huge economic value. Will our future students make the right choices in the new education marketplace presaged by Lord Browne? . . . → Read More: Why we need to be STEAM driven With a major report highlighting that women are leaving the media industries in their droves, Animation and Games are shown to particularly lack female talent. So what’s it like for that rarest of species, the female games animator? . . . → Read More: MISSING IN ACTION: Why Women aren’t animated about games Live and direct from Norwich… not Sale of the Century, but #1000flowers – a conference/unconference talking about local TV. (Hat tip to the twitterati for the Nicholas Parsons gag). Organised by Rick Waghorn, journalists, entrepreneur and owner of Addiply, an online ad solution for websites, this is a brief summary of lunchtime’s opening session including Rick and . . . → Read More: #1000Flowers – Local TV discussed in Norwich Seemingly, games is no longer the male preserve in terms of consumption that it once was. Whilst there have always been small numbers of hard-core female gamers, there are many more casual or social gamers now playing Bejeweled, Farmville, Wii fit. But if you look around the Games industry workforce there’s a different story. . . . → Read More: Where’s the Level Playing Field?: women in games Is Stereoscopic-3D a flash in the pan? Is it the ‘new black’- merely this season’s must-have novelty- or the new Colour- ie a major technology shift that will change the way we consume film? . . . → Read More: Is STEREO-3D the new “black” or the new Colour? |
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