Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Minister for State for Further and Higher Education, was the guest of honour at the opening of a new Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at North Birmingham College (NBC) on the 1 May 1998. LRC provides excellent facilities for staff and students. It is the electronic hub for the College. The Centre has…
NEWS FLASH (April 1st, 1998) – Historic Movie On Display At Last! Cinefilm of one of the defining events of the 20th century has at last been restored, 94 years after it was taken. Everyone must have seen the classic image of Orville Wright’s first flight, but what they will not have realised is that…
Chris Wells, Divisional Manager, and John McCann from the DfEE Millennium Projects Team visited KMi to see a range of multimedia and Web developments. The day commenced with a visit to Heronsgate School to see a number of examples of children using applications to support the curriculum which have been developed by the Multimedia Enabling…
Sue Thexton, Managing Director of Macromedia Europe, visited KMi to see a range of developments that involve the use of Macromedia Director for multimedia authoring. There was particular interest in seeing applications such as the Virtual Microscope, Topic Accessed Video and the Virtual Leaf. Shockwave applications seen included First Flight and the Dynamic Pump. Macromedia…
A site under the auspices of The American National Science Foundation has listed FirstFlight among its hotlist of education resources for schools. The widely-regarded ‘Exploratorium‘ posts a monthly list of ten cool sites: ‘FirstFlight – This visually attractive site explores the Wright brothers’ first flight. You can check out the experiments that lead to the…
A collaborative project between KMi and Mac ADB controller manufacturers Beehive Technologies has seen up to 100 visits by show attendees to the KMi/Heronsgate Mars Buggy overnight. Beehive have a number of Apple Macs on their stand at the San Francisco exhibition with browsers pointing to the buggy pages. Visitors to the stand can see…
President of Florida State University, Dr. Talbot (Sandy) D’Alemberte, visited the Open University on Tuesday 16th December to progress details of OU/FSU collaboration. He met with Gary Slapper, Director of the Law Programme at the Open University Business School, visited Marc Eisenstadt here in the Knowledge Media Institute, and joined Bob Masterton, Keith Williams, Graham…
Having watched their control-buggy spend several years going up and down a short wooden maze, the children of Heronsgate School decided to build a more interesting environment. Their small-scale Mars landscape, (complete with cave and evidence of rock paintings!) has now been moved to the KMi, and the Heronsgate children can control their buggy through…
Having watched their control-buggy spend several years going up and down a short wooden maze, the children of Heronsgate School decided to build a more interesting environment. Their small-scale Mars landscape, (complete with cave and evidence of rock paintings!) has now been moved to the KMi, and the Heronsgate children can control their buggy through…
Dr. Stuart Monro, Scientific Director, and Nina Ludgate (Event Communications) visited KMi’s MultiMedia Enabling Technologies group to see protoype material for the Volcanic Edinburgh part of the exhibition currently under construction for the Dynamic Earth project in Edinburgh. A web page for the project, with sample QTVR movies, can be viewed at http://met.open.ac.uk/met_vr/v r_earth.html Later,…
