#Digibury

Crowdfunded popups

How the tots take to tablets

Discuss edu-tech

Hajera Memon

Hajera is Founder of Shade 7, a global, multilingual publisher. In her talk, she explains how she used crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to generate funds to support the publication of world's first Koran story book with pop ups.

Emily Guille-Marrett

Early reading expert Emily is Founder of Reading Fairy. She will be delivering a talk focusing on the iTot generation, and the impact of the tablet on children’s reading.

Edu-tech panel

The talks will be followed by an Edutech debate. Hajera and Emily will join:

Paul Sharrad: Paul is on the 'front lines' of teaching computer science in secondary education. He bought in the BTEC at his school (more vocational computing rather than applied computer science). At the same time he is the lead developer on a Linux distro orientated for schools (both server room and classroom). The school uses Linux based pcs for about a decade now.

Lucy Bloomfield: Lucy is a designer/developer hailing from Australia but on a mission to see the entire world. She believes the education system is falling behind in what needs to be taught to students to produce innovative and creative-thinking people that excel in work environments.

The panel (with audience participation!) will be exploring issues such as:

  • What impact tech is having on the way in which students learn?
  • How are teachers responding to these pressures?
  • How can tech be better exploited?
  • Are we equipping students for the workplace?
  • Is peer-learning a viable option?

See you 7.30pm at The Gulbenkian!

#Digibury 118 - June 11th 2014

Previously…

#Digibury 119 - July 9th 2014

Noel Hatch: How can we use technology to make Kent a better place?

Astrid Goldsmith: Alternative methods of animation film production

Howard Griffin: Moving the immovable

#Digibury 118 - June 11th 2014

Hajera Memon: How I crowdfunded the world's first popup Koran

Emily Guille Marrett : iTots and reading

Education-meets-technology discussion with audience participation

#Digibury 117 - May 14th 2014

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will be talking about game develpoment process.

Porchlight homeless charity will be talking about gamification of charities.

Principal Technologist Web & Mobile Development at qa.com will be focusing on ZURB Foundation

#Digibury 116 - April 9th 2014

As part of their final year project at the University of Kent, Fran Haselden and Becky Bull created an integrated multimedia experience: With support from BBC Research & Development they have developed a prototype of a companion app to work alongside the BBC Commonwealth Games 2014 coverage, which will also used as the benchmark for future dual screen projects. Drawing on their experience, they will not only share their journey so far, but also insights into the emerging trend of 'dual screening'.

Chris Roberts MEng. is a Broadcast Engineer current working for BBC Major Projects Infrastructure. He has been a contributing developer for OpenOB - utilising Opus for Broadcast Audio Links - since 2013. The performance of Audio over IP is defined by the codecs used to encode and decode audio at either end of the link. Indeed, there is no shortage of codecs out there, but no single one fulfils the quality and latency requirements of broadcasters. In his talk, Chris will explain why Opus might change all that...

Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Paul Hallett will be talking about the power of APIs in the modern web and how APIs are changing web app builds… complete with live demo!

#Digibury 115 - March 12th 2014

Developed by Deeson Online, TinkerSoc and University of Kent School of Computer Science, Project Conway is an innovative interactive computer game and art instillation. The idea is pretty simple: a player ‘creates’ a life via a special website projectconway.com. Then, following the rules of John Conway’s Game of Life, the creation ‘lives’, reproducing and thriving in the form of LEDs on a large display panel. This is the main instillation. The result is an array of colourful lights which flash on and off in a seemingly random sequence until the creation cannot reproduce any more and it ‘dies’. This triggers an 'obituary' which can printed out remotely, or via a small printer (which also makes up the instillation). The aim of the Project Conway is to prove that technology and art can come together in innovative and inclusive ways through experimentation, problem solving, collaboration, development, electronics… and play.

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