Will It Be Programmed To Detect Slackers?

Posted by Andrew @ April 4th, 2011 9:24 pm. Filed under: Whatever My Company Does Is Vital! — Tags: Saif Chaudhry —

The problem with this new website is that pretty well every idea on it is at least a bit dumb.

Stereoscopic 3D Educational Programmes “Stereocate”

by Saif Chaudhry
31/03/2011 12:44 PM GMT

I would like to use the power of stereoscopic 3D technology to educate students at all levels of academia. The idea will include 3D content production, 3D hardware rental/supply/installation and effectiveness research.

Stereoscopic 3D is the technical term used to describe the experience that is commonly referred to as 3-D film, television or gaming. The technology tricks the brain in to creating “cyclopean images” which are used for human optical depth perception. This gives the illusion that the viewer is looking in to the real world and not on to a flat screen. Many short studies have found this to increase attention, emotion and engagement levels. It is because of this that I think its use in education should be a priority.

I believe that a new model for creating and distributing educational content could be creating by seeking a mixture of public and private funding. A publicity based model could be adopted allowing companies and organisations who fit a strict ethical and social criteria to fund the production of the educational content in exchange for PR and logos placed in any assets produced. In this way it would be possible to distribute video content at cost (cost of the 3D Bluray) to UK schools, colleges, universities and other educational establishments that have the necessary 3D facilities. I understand business is about making money but I believe that educating should not be solely about profits but about the progress of our country and next generation. We would retain all copyright and be free to sell the content to schools outside of the UK. We would also provide supporting written material in an electronic format that would allow schools to print and use when necessary. If a school lacks the necessary hardware we can rent, supply and install the needed technology.

I have been unable to find a comprehensive set of figures that details the spend on textbooks but this spend could be drastically reduced by creating and distributing content in this way. I also propose to create an online portal where pupils of registered schools could view the 3D content at home for no additional charge (online) or purchase a set of 3D Blu ray’s.

Traditionally educational content has lacked the cinematic and directorial quality when compared to standard entertainment content. I would like to create the content using the same techniques and principles as mainstream content, meaning it is more engaging, entertaining and therefore more likely to deliver effective teaching.

I propose to take a topic from the GCSE syllabus of one subject and creating a 3D lesson. The teaching would be delivered to two classes of equal academic ability either using 3D or traditional methods. At the end we would ask pupils to complete a short test and questionnaire. Upon completion this lesson would act as a demo.

Initially the new company would focus on consumer content, however from personal experience, I believe there are uses for similar technology within the defence industry.

In case you wisely couldn’t be bothered to read all this, it boils down to:

• Books are expensive.
• People pay attention to 3D things.
• We could sell adverts in school lessons.

I’m pretty sure my school already has a 3D lesson-delivery system. This sounds like something from an 80s vision of the near-future where class sizes are around 150, and everything is holograms sponsored by PepsiCo.

Incidentally, it’s worth pointing out that the one 3D image available on this company’s website is the single worst attempt at 3D photography I have ever seen. If they used two cameras, they weren’t correctly synchronised. More probably they used only one, and in any case, presumably knowing that they couldn’t take the photos simultaneously, they chose a scene that moves around. If they’d picked a tree or a building they’d have got away with it, but no, they had to go with fountains. How is this going to work with a teacher trying to give a lesson while their cameraman shuffles from side to side resetting his tripod?

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Although It Would Come In Handy In a Hostage Situation

Posted by Ben @ April 1st, 2011 8:26 pm. Filed under: Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I Am A Brain!,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Really REALLY Bad Ideas,Solve My Imaginary Problems!,Unreasonable Demands,Unworkable Ideas — Tags: Andy Preston, Karrass Worldwide Ltd. —

NEGOTIATION

by Andy Preston
01/04/2011 01:07 PM GMT

Failure to negotiate and renegotiate properly will result in vast amounts of money being wasted. All Government staff in all departments should be properly trained to negotiate. Value for money rather that bureaucratic protection against failure MUST be the order of the day. Karrass Worldwide Ltd. can provide that training.

Surely it would cost more money to train “ALL Government staff in all departments” to negotiate stuff – keeping in mind this also includes Job Centre staff, cleaners and whathaveyou? What you’re effectively asking for here is “Please give Karrass Worldwide a big bag of money to train a bunch of people in a skill that almost all of them will never have to use.”

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Some Kind Of Bake Sale?

Posted by Andrew @ April 1st, 2011 8:23 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Am A Brain!,Just Crazy Enough To Work,Video — Tags: ANDREW STONEY —

Andrew Stoney has a simple idea to make the government “not sure/prefer not to say” pounds:

Advertising Revenue.

by ANDREW STONEY
30/03/2011 05:41 PM GMT

Making revenue from Google advertising that target specific videos that relate to different websites & my own videos.

Here, genuinely, is his latest video:

I think we can all agree that this would be fantastically lucrative.

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