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Video: Sense of Place: ideas rather than the memorization of facts - and was designed to open the MINDs of those that read his books such that they were awakened to the fact that we are but ONE family ever responsible for the ever changing future of this world - and in so doing the series helped to develop a wide range of skills and ideas amongst its readership. Video project which conveys the essence and emotions attatched to my 17 year old car. Created with Adobe After Effects. .…; Added by Michael Grove at 17:21 on January 17, 2011

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Comment on: Blog Post 'IN NO DISSIMILAR WAY THAN ...': one of the primary foci for an OUP Interactive Videodisc demonstrator, which was designed to support his OUP Sense of Place series. …; Added by Michael Grove at 18:15 on December 6, 2018

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Comment on: Blog Post 'I WOULD NOT PRESUME THAT...': ndparents, however, ensured that I didn't even realise that I was dyslexic, until my meeting with the female dyslexic designer of the first Silicon Graphics desk-top 3D cad-cam system in the USA. [IT] was she who told me about the dyslexic Thomas West and his book In the Mind's Eye, which resulted in my involvement with an exhibition of the works of dyslexic artists at the Mall Galleries. The birth of Leonardo coincided with that of the printing press, and [IT] was of course Oxford University Press [OUP], who established their own, and published their very first book in 1478, just two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England. Track forward several centuries, and following an invite by Nuneham Ladies College in Cambridge to demonstrate my first BBC Micro based Interactive Multimedia system, two senior members of OUP invited me to come and work as a consultant to Rex Beddis, who was the author of the Sense of Place Series three-book course for lower secondary school. …; Added by Michael Grove at 15:06 on March 9, 2023

Comment on: Blog Post '[IT] IS THE MALE OF OUR SPECIES THAT IS ...': gs and values as well as evidence whilst developing a wide range of skills that helps students to look at the future as well as understand the present. Having been invited to work with Rex Beddis with respect for his own experience of volcanic activity in Iceland and regard to the development of an Interactive Videodisc Multimedia project utilising the BBC Doomsday Videodisc Player, which acted as the catalyst of my suggestion to OUP of utilising the new CD-ROM technology for the alternative distribution of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] having at that time already demonstrated such use of the new technology to Encyclopedia Brittanica, at home in Tackley, which resulted in them responding on their return to the USA, with the comment that any thought of using this technology was nothing more than "ALL SMOKE & MIRRORS". Needless to say OUP were the first to pioneer the idea, and continued to implement their enthusiasm for the use of technology for the purposes of their printing and eventually a customised system which I established for them to digitise the entirety of their ARTWORK COLLECTION that allowed them to transfer their entire archive of hand drawn & painted artwork into digital format, by way of a system which I set up for them in the basement close to where their original printing press stood. …; Added by Michael Grove at 15:48 on September 11, 2019

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