For those of you heading to the BA festival next week, I thought you might
like to hear about a workshop we're organising on the Friday. We've got a
good list of invited speakers and attendees and the discussion should be
excellent. If you want more details please contact Gill Watson on
01273-678726.
Cheers,
Chris Ewels
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Dr Chris Ewels | http://www.vega.org.uk/
The Vega Science Trust, CPES | tc.cpes.susx.ac.uk/~ewels
Sussex Uni, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK | Tel: +44-1273-877293
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The Vega Science Trust workshop on
"Science, Engineering and Technology Programmes on
Television and the Internet"
BA Festival 2000 - Lecture Theatre 1, ACE Extension,
Imperial College, London
2.15 - 5.00pm Friday 8th September 2000.
The Vega Science Trust is organising a workshop during the BA festival on
SET programmes and TV/Internet broadcasting. This workshop, the second we
have organised, will focus on the exciting opportunities that the rapidly
expanding technologies and broadcast outlets offer to dramatically improve
educational communication. The new technologies are truly democratising
our ability to broadcast recorded visual material in a way that the
invention of the printing press democratised book publishing. In the
light of these new possibilities, Vega hopes that the workshop will
engender a serious cooperative initiative to use television and the
Internet to improve all aspects of SET understanding and awareness. If
Universities, Research Councils, Research Laboratories, Science
Foundations as well as individual programme makers can coordinate their
efforts it will be possible to make available the more serious programmes,
which explore the cultural and intellectual aspects of SET in the depth
that is required for true understanding and creative development.
We aim to catalyse the creation of a cooperative network of broadcast
platforms in order to make such programmes more readily available. Such
an initiative will for the first time release the huge creative potential
that resides in the enthusiasms and energies of individual members of the
SET community.
The workshop will specifically explore how advances in digital compression
technology and broadband access can be used creatively and synergistically
to exploit educational opportunities. It hopefully will also consider the
European and wider International perspectives.
Directions: If you enter the Imperial College site from Exhibition Road
and make your way to Queen's Tower the lecture theatre should be
signposted from there on. The BA website has a map at
http://www.britassoc.org.uk/creatingsparks/cs3.htm
or there's a clearer one at the Imperial College website at:
http://www.publications.ad.ic.ac.uk/maps/
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