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.
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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.
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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.
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:48 on September 11, 2019