Possible job for students

http://jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk/erewash/jobdetails.asp?jobid=33285
This job is in Erewash so it may be too far for our students to travel but it coulld be good practice to apply for it for the experience of completing an application and even for interview practice.

Hello people

Reports time

We are currently compiling our bi-annual progress reports. Despite them taking a full decade to write, we have managed with the aid of a flux capacitor to make it look like it took 2 weeks.
Christmas will soon be upon us, but never mind. In two weeks we’ll all be back in again.

New Video

I've been working on a video for a showreel to 'showcase' what computing is all about. The first stage is a fly-up from outside the college building to the 7th floor. It's at the 'first render' stage at the moment so depending upon how much time I have it may change with more detail etc... however it did take a full 8 hours just to render this 30 second clip!

 

This was made using Google SketchUp (free) and 3DS Max 2012 (free educational license) and several hours when I should have really been sleeping!

Virtual 7th Floor

This is an idea from last year, I've been too busy to get it finished but hopefully will do some more work on it over the next few weeks[probably months] and here is a bit of a sneak preview.
As you can see, I took a floor plan from the College website and started to build it up in Google SketchUp. The finished raised plan was then put into Unity3D Free where it will be given lighting and a first person controller.

We won't however be shooting anyone here folks but there will be a game to play.

Hello world x 2 (10)

I have a [virtual] dream, well hopefully this will be a place of [relatively sensible] discussion. Somewhere to post some thoughts worth sharing in the hope someone will actually read it.
After finding out that Word 2010 doesn't like Blogger, I tried WordPress and as you can see it does seem to work, and the images too!
So, posting directly to an outside blog from Word is something we will be integrating into class from this point forward
You heard and saw it here first folks.
Edit: I’ve found since that Windows Live Writer does work in college, and with all the normal features. So I moved this blog away from Wordpress (sorry, Wordpress) to Blogger where all my others are.