The Publishers’ Association organised a conference at University College London to discuss the VLE in Higher Education.
A VLE is a Virtual Learning Environments such as WebCT or Blackboard (actually they just merged) and the question forthis conference was officially:
Will VLEs transform the landscape of learning?
However, a good part of the conference was targeted at the many publishing companies who were represented in the audience. Publishing companies are wondering - how will we continue to make revenue from text books if the Higher Education sector increasingly adopt these technolgies?
During the Adobe Live event today at London’s Olympia, Jim Guerard, Vice President of Web and Video told the audience that ‘the future is Dreamweaver’.
After Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, the software giant found themselves with several products that have hitherto been in fierce competition. Adobe’s GoLive and Macromedia’s Dreamweaver have been the alternative choices for WYSYWIG web editors. Jim Guerard was not announcing the end of GoLive, and indeed, he suggested that there would be a new version sometime, however, Dreamweaver would be the software bundled with any Web Designer Suite. The implication of this is surely don’t stick with GoLive
Went with the children to see Matthew Skelton read from his book Endymion Spring.
Interesting event organised by the StoryMuseum a new venture in Oxford.
Endymion Spring is not, as you might imagine, a flavour of the season that comes before Summer, but rather the name of Gutenberg’s apprentice at the time that he was experimenting with printing with type.
I thought I would start a new photo gallery on The Book in dedication to this day. I already had a few images filed under Objects or Close-Ups, so I have taken a few more and trawled through the archives to bring you ...
