In order to gain as much as possible from the programme on Tuesday, we each attended different seminars covering a range of topics: graphics, iPhone development, game development, browser technology, Web applications and emerging Web standards. Each of these relate to core elements of BMC multimedia provision and the sessions illustrated what can be achieved when creativity and technical skill fuse with class leading hardware and software. The seminars also reinforced to us the importance of ensuring that we continue to provide industry informed curriculum and technologies to our students. This is vital in order to facilitate their successful entry into this dynamic and ever changing creative sector and, also, to support their professional development as they progress through their careers.
In the early afternoon, we, along with colleagues from QUB and UUJ, met senior Apple education representatives in order to discuss current and proposed provision within Northern Ireland FE and HE. We also explored the support that Apple could provide, as we deliver the best curriculum to multimedia learners and support our local Digital Media industries.
The Apple Design Awards took place on Tuesday evening and we were treated with viewing the amazing work done by both student and professional developers. The winners' products ranged from simple games and applications to all-encompassing productivity tools but, as you would imagine, all exhibited a common characteristic – a beautifully clean and intuitive design created to maximise the user's experience. Each of these may, one day, be recognised as a design classic - just like the Mini pictured. Of course, this being an Apple conference, that Mini is no normal rental car. Rather it is one that can be located, booked and paid for all through the convenience of your iPhone and when you locate it, using your on-phone GPS, you can even open the doors remotely.
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