If, like Duggie Fields, you are interested in making the leap from paint to pixels, here are some suggestions to help you.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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How does one school in India harness technology to teach pupils living in India’s slums?
Category: Education & Development
How can we keep our children safe without depriving them of all computers have to offer? Keri Facer explores how computers can be a valuable tool for learning and social interaction.
Category: Childhood & Youth Studies
Dr Jackie Marsh explores the impact of popular culture, media and new technologies on young children today
Category: Childhood & Youth Studies
Computer technology makes it possible for musicians to play together when they are miles apart.
Category: Music
The availability of cheaper, more powerful home computers has changed the way music is made in many ways.
Category: Music
Malcolm Lindsay, one of the founding members of Deacon Blue, talks about the influence of technology on music so far, and what the future holds.
Category: Music
Artist Duggie Fields explains how the digital revolution has added new dimensions to his work.
Category: Visual Art
Artist Duggie Fields has recently added a computer to the tools of his trade. Duggie has been an artist for over 30 years, building up a reputation as one of the world's leading post-pop artists. He has exhibited world-wide, and his London flat acts as a mini gallery of his work.
Category: Visual Art
A timeline of developments in information and communication technologies, from the Spanish Armada to just-before-we-started-to-Google.
The Money Programme team spoke exclusively with Bill Gates and his colleagues as Bill prepared to step down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Dr Roshan Boojiha explores the personal and business side of Sir Alan Sugar, and asks if he's a good role model.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
A ‘heady and exciting time’ to be working for Microsoft in the late 90s – and you could say ‘that geek was my boss’.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Because being rich and being a business person are two different things, Colin Gray salutes Bill Gates – global entrepreneur.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce means reducing your use of items that lead to waste. Since 2000, amounts of e-waste have grown from 20 million to 50 million tonnes per year.
Category: Nature & Environment
As part of a review of content this course will be deleted on 15 June 2017. It has been replaced by the new course 'Digital forensics'.
With a few easily available tools people can reveal the stored passwords on their computer and access previously deleted data. Learn about some of the issues in data privacy and computer forensics. This free course, Introduction to computer forensics and investigations, provides practical demonstration in a clear and accessible format.
With a few easily available tools people can reveal the stored passwords on their computer and access previously deleted data. Learn about some of the issues in data privacy and computer forensics. This free course, Introduction to computer forensics and investigations, provides practical demonstration in a clear and accessible format.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
What have computers got to do with cows? Can a wooden mirror help us understand the computing behind digital image capture? Neil Rowse is the first dairy farmer in the UK to use a computerised system that gives cows control over when they are milked, and allows him to remotely monitor the welfare of individual animals. Daniel Rozin has created an computer operated mirror made from 835 tilting wooden tiles. With the help of a digital camera and a computer programme, the wooden tiles mimic the digital pixel information and tilt themselves into a ‘reflection’. This material is taken from The Open University course T224 Computers and processors.
Category: Computing & ICT
Computers play a huge part in almost all of our lives, but how did these machines become so powerful and important? And what were some of the earliest models like? This collection of videos takes us through the Four Generations of computers, starting with Colossus, the world's first electronic computer (launched in 1944), and finishing with the BBC Micro (launched in 1981) and Fourth Generation Computers, looking at how technology changed throughout these years. Visiting locations such as The National Museum of Computing in Milton Keynes and The Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, we see an array of fascinating machines and learn about them along the way.
This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life.
This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life.
Category: Engineering & Technology
Although many of the electrical goods and gadgets we buy today come in pre-sealed boxes, which makes it hard to take them apart and look inside, it's still possible to tinker in a hands on way with a lot of today's technology. The Maker Faires are celebrations of this sort of hands-on activity: have a look at the following slideshow to see what sort of things were on show at the UK's first Maker Faire in Newcastle in March 2009.
Category: Engineering & Technology
Sir Alan Sugar and Fiona Bruce discuss the success of Sugar's technology business throughout his career.
Category: Engineering & Technology