Feb
3
Did a keynote speech and ran a workshop at the Play for Outstanding Results event in Trinidad and Tobago last year in Dec. It was great to engage with the industrial community with playful methodology for thinking about game plan for solving problems and challenges. My keynote address was very much about unpicking the power of play and gameplay, how important it is to provide a safe space for individuals to try new ideas and to also encourage individuality towards a more enriched and diverse collective creativity and intelligence.
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Feb
3
The BETT exhibition is a great place to discover new tools and to horizon scan trends that are going mainstream and that are upcoming. The use of lego Mindstorm is part of the lesson plan topic for the Beaconing piloting and it was good to have a hands on experience. Jayne, Aikaterini and myself were there and we had fun
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Jan
17
On Thursday 24th of November 2016, Head of Operations Theresa Pruvost attended the second ATEC Conference at Mercure Sheffield St Paul’s Hotel.
Theresa says,
“It was really interesting to listen to speaker Hector Minto, who is Senior Technology Evangelist for Accessibility at Microsoft. He talked about how Microsoft are embedding accessibility into all of their technology developments.
“Another really interesting speaker with Gareth Ford Williams who is Head of Accessibility at the BBC and he talked about new technologies such as 3D radio and virtual reality becoming more mainstream within the BBC.
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Dec
23
The Greek farming sector remains unusually big by European standards, with 13 percent of the population working in this sector. Greece has the most farmers per capita after Romania, which might represent an issue in a country mainly constituted of hills, mountain, islands and very few valleys. A direct consequence to those geographic constraints is that the efficiently farmable part of the country is quite small. The average farm in Greece has a surface of 7 hectares, to be compared to the averages of 26 ha in Netherlands (a smaller country with a higher population) or 86 ha in Florida.
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Nov
24
An estimated £0.6 billion is spent annually on the Repair and Maintenance of pre-1919 buildings, and an important part of this procedure includes stone replacement e.g. recent figures on the proposed Glasgow school of art restoration estimated that 10% of the overall cost (£25-35 million) will be made available for stone work repairs. However, modern stone replacement relies heavily on the tacit knowledge and experience of the practitioner as there is NO formal training provision for the use of power tools within the current Apprenticeship framework which is delivered in FE colleges. As a result inadequate performance continues such as inaccuracies in stone replacement measurements, excessive waste removal, and damage to stones when on-site variations are required, as well as when removing mortar due to inadequate use of angle grinders.
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