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Vivid Interactive, based in the heart of Brighton, was established in 1988 and is one of the most experienced digital media consultancy and production companies in the UK. Specialising in the development of digital media for education Vivid has an impressive track record of clients and projects.

To help us in our growth at an exciting time of expansion we are looking for an experienced salesperson to drive our sales. Candidates must be very familiar with the world of educational publishing and primary and secondary education, have extensive experience of consultative selling and be passionate about digital media for education.

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Vivid Interactive MD, Mick Landmann, has set up a blog to discuss issues around education and digital media. He is very keen to extend his discussion to anyone who is involved in or has views on education in the 21^st century.

Mick’s musings

Well-designed school buildings with high quality facilities, especially for ICT, are the key to delivering effective, personalised education.

The Government’s £48bn Building Schools for the Future program aims to help local authorities update and improve school buildings, or rebuild secondary schools if necessary.

Crucial to this programme is the need to integrate digital technology into school infrastructure.

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An e-portfolio is a digital collection of pupils’ education documents, but it has the potential to do much more.

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Imagine a world where education fits the pupils, rather than the pupils learning to fit into the system. Sounds simple, doesn’t it.

Well, that’s ‘personalisation’ in a nutshell.

The Plowden Report of 1967 says that:

“The school sets out….to devise the right environment for children to allow them to be themselves and to develop in the way and at a pace appropriate to them…”

Yet the practicalities of a teacher led classroom based education has not been able to deliver on ideals.

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Flexibility is the key to the new national curriculum with learning taking place in and out of the classroom.

The aim is to tailor education to pupils’ needs to a greater extent and to make closer links with employment and the skills required in the 21^st century world of work.

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The Handheld Learning conference 13-15 October 2008

This was a conference where you were spoilt for choice. It was thronged with like-minded people who had intriguing and interesting takes on the future of learning in the 21^st century.

Digital technology can enrich the lives of our young people and this was an ideal place to see how.

Highlights included three young people showing their short films, which were astonishingly good, with corresponding confidence and presentation skills.

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So a New Year and new opportunities? I’m not a man who puts much store by new years resolutions, they always seem to get broken, but I do like to see the dawning of a new year as an opportunity to inject new energy and purpose into things.

In the world of education the year just gone has seen some promise towards the potential offered by digital media, but also some signs that there us an awful long way to go yet.

The Handheld Learning Conference organised by Graham Brown Martin in October (reviewed in our current newsletter) attracted more delegates than ever. It included a closing keynote speech from Lord Putnam, long a fan of the potential of Digital Media for education, and participation by such luminaries as Stephen Heppell and writer Steven Johnson.

The conference was full of sparkling examples of the creative use of digital media in its many guises and its positive effect on the education of our young people.

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