Flavert Media Lab {The Blog}

On 17th April 2008, I was invited as a Media from Anne K Ewe from PPM Technology Communications to Adobe Education Leadership Forum at Hotel Nikko. It was a two day event organized by Adobe to all educators, instructors from various college and education institution. But i’m not present on the first day. so can’t tell much on what happened on the first day.

So on the second day, the first speaker for Higher Education Track is Megan Stewart, the Director of Higher Education, Adobe Systems. She explained about how things change lately especially in the digital media world. Her talk entitled “Engagement, Collaboration & innovation in Higher Education”
First, she redefine the experience engaging that it is must be

1. accessible
2. collaborative
3. compelling
4. easy to use
5. personalized
6. responsive.

Next, she come up with new buzzwords, University ( UNIV ) 2.0. haha just like Web 2.0 but different matter. UNIV 2.0 is a collaboration between countries or institution with better connection and will train the students to be prepared for the industry with the skillsets required.  ( this is as far as i know and understand )

After that, i have so much of fun knowing what our neighbors been up to, Singapore. The speakers, Melvin Goh & Patricia Lim from Adobe Education Innovators talks about “Making Waves in Higher Education with Interactive Media”. This time, the picture tell more than the words they’re saying. manage to know about skin technologies, ambilight, tiltsensors, arduino… oho..

Then i’m attending Media Briefing : The APAC ( Asia-Pacific ) Landscape, a talk given by John Treloar, Education Director, Asia Pacific, Adobe Systems. Adobe choose Singapore as their Asean hub because they’re more well-equipped in terms of infrastructure and equipment. They even have competition among school and polytechnic.  He also stated Adobe’s responsible in Education world is to supply the curriculum.. and

“Is not tool that you have to learn. But the ability to publish sheer content.”

So tool… is not as important as the content itself. Content is the king.  Adobe have all the tools.. now it’s up to the student to publish sheer extraordinary content. “Take as much as you want”

One thing i’m almost.. touched .. is when John Treloar exhibit one animation that was produced by kid less than 12 years old. the animation is pretty simple, just a stick animation but John said

“Imagine the learning process this kid have gone through to made this animation..”

I was.. whoa… this kid has already know keyframing, masking, tween shape, and all those yada yada.. pretty amazing.

Overall, i think the forum is very beneficial especially to educators. I’ve met Candice,my Digital Media classmate, now is a lecturer at The One Academy,  at the forum. She said that this is really a breathtaking experience and shall not be missed to any of the educators.

And as for me, i’ve gain more confidence, experience, passion, and spirit in teaching what i know ( that is Flash of course

//Congratulations to Project57 for receiving 2 awards in Astro NextGen Contentpreneur Award 2008. News here.

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah dan salam sejahtera semua. berita yang khusus untuk semua pelajar. ada dua pertandingan yang menawarkan hadiah lumayan disamping portfolio terbaik buat anda.

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pertamanya: Adobe Design Achievement Award

Info:

Sertai 12 kategori didalam 3 kawasan media yang diiktiraf didalam industri. Menangi hadiah wang tunai sebanyak US$60,000 yang akan dianugerahkan di New York.Gunakan perisian percubaan dari Adobe dan hasilkan karya yang kreatif dan unik!

Penyertaan ditutup pada May 2, 2008. Sila layari www.ADAAentry.com untuk maklumat lanjut dan lihat karya-karya yang diiktiraf oleh Adobe.

Terima Kasih kepada MuidLatif dari Digital Malaya Project//DMP untuk berita ini.

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Pertandingan Kedua: AutoDesk Design Competition 2008

Autodesk, dengan kerjasama Bahagian Pelajaran Kolej Komuniti & Politeknik, Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi bersama² Design Technology Alliance (M) Sdn Bhd telah menganjurkan Pertandingan Rekaan Autodesk ke-3, tahun 2008 untuk disertai oleh pelajar² institusi pengajian tinggi. Pertandingan ini juga disokong oleh HP.

Bertemakan ” Urbanisasi dalam Rekaan”, pertandingan ini terbahagi kepada dua kategori. Building Design and Manufacturing Design. Menangi hadiah sebanyak RM 70,000. Tarikh tutup penyertaan adalah 30 April 2008. Untuk maklumat lanjut mengenai pertandingan ini, layari website ini.

Terima kasih kepada Lowyat.NET untuk berita ini.

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jadi buat mereka yang masih bergelar pelajar, jangan lepaskan peluang ini.. best tuuu. dapat bina portfolio dan juga ade peluang untuk menangi wang tunai. good luck semua.

Howdy everybody. hope you’re doing well and fine like us. We’re doing well too.

About the titled mentioned above, last, me and sabau already organizing Flash Workshop. he’s teaching basic practice of flash till the topic ‘developing flash websites’.

( class last year )

And I spend my last weekend teaching basic flash practice to the management students from UITM. the response was tremendous. They able to grasp the idea of Flash. there’s some person there already know about Flash but now they knew something new. The lecturer that was following them also like the way i presented the tutorials.

Next, we’ll having a Flash workshop to students from Institut Perguruan Islam, Selangor. If you have any inquiries about our Flash Workshop, feel free to contact us

Flavert Media Lab just wins $500 USD for Playyoo Game Contest. Orang Bunian by Faisal Arba’in got 11^th place out of 341 submitted game on Playyoo. Congratulations to Samir for winning $10 000 USD. Below is the full list for Playyoo winners:

1. Match the Blocks a game by Samir won $10,000
2. The Empty Space a game by Loomand won $7,000
3. Panic Mechanic a game by marc won $3,000
4. qTile a game by ptm won $1,500
5. Ludo Cells a game by Samir
6. Mr. Shooti a game by Roozbeh won $1,000
7. Think Fast a game by izam won $500
8. Bog Frog a game by Ekleptica won $500
9. Fill Board a game by Samir
10. SokoLite a game by ptm won $500
11. Orang Bunian a game by Faisal Arbain won $500
12. Sketch Mini a game by santoki won $500
13. Sushi Mushi Mania a game by marc
14. Mondo Under a game by bitacora13
15. The Bee Game a game by lfons
16. UFO Catcher: Barnyard Abduction a game by Naz
17. Sea Combat a game by Mariam Dholkawala
18. Trop Tris a game by CreativeSource
19. Mr. Cease Fire a game by HungamaMobile
20. Shark-Thrasher a game by digitallamb

2^nd congratulation is to Nirpad Gurung (Flavert Media Lab’s Creative Marketing Officer) for his wedding. Wishing you and your wife live a happy life ahead.

Juanita Mukhia and Nirpad Gurung

Khamis lepas kan ade talk pasal Agile Development Methodology yang disampaikan oleh Mr Kamal dari Ruby on Rails Sdn Bhd. Masa mula mula masuk, menganga gak sebab saya bukan dari background programming sangat. Tapi nasib baik bawak PSP, sempat gak la berwikipedia dalam talk tu, check istilah istilah yg digunakan. Antara istilah yang digunakan adalah “Waterfall Model“, dimana ia akan mengumpulkan keseluruhan resource, sumber, dan kemudian give it all one go. ( ape yg saya faham la ).”see as a big picture”.

Priority Release Planning

tapi berkenaan Agile Development, konsepnye mereka akan pecahkan kerja yang akan dibuat kepada pecahan kecil yang dipanggil iteration. so pelaksanaan iteration ini akan disusun mengikut priority. kira ada release planning. contohnye kalau buat satu framework, dia akan list out fungsi mana yang patut ada dahulu, fungsi kedua yang berkait rapat ngan fungsi pertama, dan seterusnye.. macam bercabang. macam pokok… daripada pokok tu, nnt keluar dahan² besar, kemudian dahan² kecil. so release deadline dia disusun mengikut priority.

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