Learning taken to virtual world in project

The benefits of using virtual world technology for learning are to be studied in a research project at Birmingham City University.
The Learning in Virtual Environments, LiVE, project will see students undertake film production exercises, using the internet-based virtual world Second Life.
The study is led by Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), together with the [...]

Online goes offline in future

The message of this year’s world new media festival at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, is that online will move into the real world of offline, according to one delegate.
Digital media consultant Stef Lewandoski, from Birmingham, attended the festival as part of a group of delegates from the West Midlands to bring back the latest [...]

Birmingham drives digital revolution

Birmingham drives digital revolution as Screen WM announces £10m fund backed by Advantage West Midlands 
Regional Screen Agency, Screen WM, has today announced a £10 million digital media fund, developed through an innovative partnership with Channel 4, and supported by Advantage West Midlands.
Birmingham has been confirmed as the UK commissioning hub for England and Wales of Channel [...]

Blogger’s view from South by Southwest

In a video blog from the South by Southwest new media festival in Austin, Texas, Birmingham’s only professional blogger Pete Ashton explains what he’s hoping to pick up from the world’s biggest digital media gathering.
South by Southwest brings together people from across every aspect of new media from around the world to share the latest technological [...]

The face of Facebook

The billionaire chief executive of networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, talked about how his company is valued at more than just its $15bn price tag in making a keynote speech at one of the world’s biggest new media festivals, South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
He is just one of a series of top names at the festival [...]