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Sheila MacNeill - OER15 Keynote
Sheila’s keynote was about ‘Openwashing’ and Open Practitioners.
The Cost of Not Going Open - OER15
The cost of not going open! - public session
Lightning talks - OER15
Two short papers - OER in schools and FE/skills
Lightning Talks - OER15
A short paper and two lightning talks.
Martin Weller - OER15 Keynote
Martin talked about how OER community need to take control of the narrative, to challenge different versions of history around Open.
Left Hand of Darkness
Recently read ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ by Ursula LeGuin, and frustrated with the amount of books I’ve read and enjoyed that have subsequently evaporated from my memory, I decided to sketchnote a summary of what I remembered immediately having finished convinced that it will ‘fix’ it more permanently.
Process Improvement Training Sketchnotes
Sketchnotes from a ‘Process Improvement Training’ workshop.
Jeannel King - Draw Forth the Book Inside you
Synchronicity is cool - was just thinking about how to write this book that i’ve started, and along came this brill google hangout.
dhh-railsconf2014
We all got some homework to watch this keynote on writing good software. It was enjoyable and thought provoking. Been a while since I’ve done a youtube video - the opportunity to pause (but not too often) makes it a little more relaxing.
Ollie Wells - What has User Experience ever done for us?
Nice examples of product design illustrating user experiences. Also liked the distinction of customer/user experience.
Gavin Davies - Hollywood On Demand
Loved the quote Treat servers like cattle not pets
Craig Marvelly - Gene Simmons and the path to good product design
Working at Bipsync Craig talked us through his process, with some nice ideas and tools including Papertrail, Slack and New Relic
Benjy Stanton - Responsive HTML Email
Benjy gave out some handy links too.
Austin Walters - Finding your web design Niche and Generating Leads there
Enjoyed Austin’s storytelling approach, and the little discussed (for me at least) nitty gritty of the business of web design.
Scott Jenson - The Web is like water
Scott Jenson’s talk was an intriguing introduction to some pretty technical aspects of the ‘Internet of Things’. Scott gave out little hardware beacons to encourage people to vist https://github.com/google/physical-web and get experimenting. Aside from that I also enjoyed his notion of ‘Truck Ideas’ and ‘Road ideas’ illustrated with the story of Malcom Mclean - developer of the shipping container.
Sally Jenkinson - The Web is our responsibility
Sally’s talk reminded us about our responsibilities for what create and the experiences we craft. I’ve managed to make that sound rather dull, but her examples and ideas were far from dull - especially the way the we can keep evolving with the web and push how we make the technology the servant of great experiences.
Robin Christopherson - The Web is turning difficulties into opportunities
I’ve seen Robin talk a few times now, and he never disappoints. Aside from the dextirity with which he uses technology to demonstrate technology - which is hard to do - he also gives a great insight into just how transformative technology can be.
Owen Gregory - The Web is read/write
Owen’s talk was a change of pace with an exploration of the way we write on the web with some observations about styles and their intent. I’ve done him a horrible disservice with my precis, so at least read What screens want by Frank Chimero and watch When we build by Wilson Miner.
Mr Bingo - The Web is taking itself far too seriously
On reflection, a theme seemed to emerge from the whole conference when watching Mr Bingo, which was that of implementing things. It’s not enough to have ideas, but you have to run with them. Mr Bingo does that in spades. Big, Sweary, Delightful spades.
David Hieatt - A Creative Mornings Session
The thing I enjoyed most from the Creative Mornings session from David Hieatt was the obvious enjoyment and stimulation from having ideas, often widly ambitiously, and then running with them. The emphasis on following through on ideas was great.