Awards & Events
Blackburn with Darwen Borough
Blackburn with Darwen Borough
The Vision 2030 conference saw the start of a collective collaboration, involving all strategic partners throughout both communities to build an initial grounding for safer neighbourhoods, future regeneration and ultimately, change.
Jack Straw and others expressed their opinions on Blackburn with Darwen in 20 years time.
He believed that people are extremely influential when it comes to change.
By allowing people to realise their own potential and by providing them with stable environments to do so, it enables new skill sets to form within communities, ensuring Blackburn with Darwen take their future into their own hands.
This will ultimately allow Blackburn with Darwen to regenerate and compete with cities such as Manchester and Liverpool by reinventing themselves.
Department for Work & Pensions
Department for Work & Pensions - Thanks to You
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) required a nominations procedure that would enable them to select awardees and allow the nominators to state the reasons why they had nominated a particular individual.
55degrees & Penna worked with DWP on communicating their Transformation Program to their 17,000 staff. Part of this process included celebrating staff successes and achievements. VOXUR was used to allow staff to nominate individuals and leave a video saying why the individual deserved the award.
These videos were then included at an awards event which took place in 4 locations through out the country. The event was filmed, edited and broadcast via a live feed, enabling all 4 locations to act as one and for all to enjoy the successes of the transformation program and the recognition of their colleagues.
GLOW
GLOW - Co-Create
Co-Create is a pioneering new initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland through Glow. The project has been set up to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.
Through Co-Create, selected Scottish Arts Council funded arts organisations will be supported to deliver a number of ambitious demonstration projects which will trial new ways of learning and teaching.
Click on Video above or link below to find out more:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp
JISC CETIS
JISC CETIS
Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards. Their website brings together educational technology news, comment and analysis, as well as information on community events. VOXUR helps JISC capture contributions to current debates and future thinking in this rapidly growing and changing field.
NESTA
NESTA - Starter for 6
Throughout VOXUR’s Starter for 6 films a recurring analogy surfaces; that of physical challenge – outdoor sports like cycling, climbing, hill walking- and the stamina required to succeed in business.
VOXUR gives an insight into the projects of six recipients of NESTA funding. As highly engaging pitchers it is unsurprising that the protagonists in these VOXUR excerpts have produced films which are particularly lively, innovative and visually arresting.
From Brian Carlin’s roadside Resqrol to Scott Garcia’s bespoke furniture designs the films evidence the diversity of ideas which NESTA has sought to nurture.
Providing valuable background on the people behind the projectsVOXUR presents the young duo from Groopit; a website which promotes (gasp) real life interaction rather than the online social networking which has reigned of late. The Websters’ site cataloguing Highland Walks contains such ingenious extras as site specific bog ratings and podcast pronunciations of those tricky Gaelic hill titles.
As a result NESTA commissioned 11 films which were used on their website and uploaded to various sites to ‘spider’ the material. A promotional DVD was also commissioned to inform policy makers and encourage entrepreneurs.
NHS Scotland
NHS Scotland
Nicola Sturgeon recently announced her plans for a new NHS Quality Strategy. A key part of this is person centred care. VOXUR provided the opportunity for everyone to describe their views about the proposed strategy and the option to leave stories of their recent experiences with the NHS. Click on the video to listen to what people had to say.
Patient Information Forum
Patient Information Forum
The last decade has seen some far reaching changes in the way information is developed, produced and shared. There was a time when information was all about the leaflet and access to these was through ‘gatekeepers’ like GPs and nurses. All that is changing. Although there is still a need for the paper based written word, far reaching changes in technology are now fundamentally changing the way people access and use information. Information producers are changing too – user-led, audience specific, multi-format resources are now the norm for many.
During the conference delegates were asked to use VOXUR, a film studio in a box, to capture their views and experience of working in consumer health information. The short film is an edited version of contributions, exploring the challenges currently facing information producers, patients and the public around health information. Delegates also put forward some possible solutions and suggest ways in which PiF might make a difference.
Penna - HR Consulting Day
Penna - HR Consulting Day
Penna invited 100 of their client partners, associates and colleagues to the Manor House in Suffolk for a one day conference to help them learn more about Penna and its human resources consulting services. Directors from Penna delivered presentations about the company and its strategy – a major feature of the day was making connections and networking.
55degrees captured the day for them using the Gold Conference package with a 2 person video crew and VOXUR portable with support. Penna used the option of an additional film using VOXUR Portable for feedback on the day. This enabled the attendees to give feedback about what they gained from the day, which was then presented as a short video summary at the end of the conference.
To help continue the dialogue after the event, 55degrees created a bespoke web page for Penna employees to view the film and share comments.
Scotland’s Learning Partnership
Scotland’s Learning Partnership
LIFELONG LEARNING: A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
From Canada to the Philippines to citizens of Scottish heritage VOXUR recorded the personal narratives of attendants at an Adult Learning Conference entitled “A Time for Learning: Paving the Way to CONFINTEA VI”. The event brought together a ‘global community’ of mature learners to discuss the future of adult learning.
VOXUR upends erstwhile barriers caused by language, literacy levels. Addressing dyslexia and other obstacles to learning VOXUR poses questions to candidates in a lively visual format or even in their native tongue.
United in their conviction that “Everybody has the right to an education” a nascent hope resurfaces in many responses that “Comment and opinion be expressed more by the adult learning community”.
The technology trialled at this conference points to the future of lifelong learning- personalised, egalitarian and accessible technology. VOXUR; a voice for all gives people the dignity of a private recording scenario free from public scrutiny.
Scottish Arts Council
Scottish Arts Council - Partnership 2.0
In 2008 the Scottish Arts Council required a means to engage a target audience and to encourage them to book tickets for their Audience Development Forum, Partnership 2.0.
In order to excite potential audiences to go to the Partnership 2.0 Forum we couriered VOXUR to Zurich and New York to record short films by the two keynote speakers Gerd Leonhard and Brian Newman. VOXUR was also sent to industry professionals in Scotland asking what they expected from the event. The footage was then made into 3 taster films hosted on the SAC website to promote the forum.
These films generated so much interest in the event the forum was oversubscribed two weeks prior to the event. All films were then made available on the SAC site as online video and as podcasts.
Scottish Arts Council
The Creative Scotland Awards
Each year, up to ten established artists with a record of major achievement in their field are awarded £30,000. SAC commissioned 55degrees to produce the 10 ‘portrait’ films, screened at the awards ceremony.
Time was very short between the decision on who will receive an award and the actual awards ceremony. In order to cope with the timescale and create interesting and diverse films we couriered VOXUR units to each of the recipients. This enabled them to create a video diary about themselves, their work and how they thought the award would impact on their work.
Sending VOXUR to the recipients instead of having the recipients come to Glasgow meant we achieved a variety of backgrounds and styles that would otherwise not have been possible, economical or practical. The resulting films, which were used to introduce the recipients, were character driven and imaginative and managed to fully engage and subdue a pretty lively audience during the awards ceremony!
The Scottish Ruby Conference
The Scottish Ruby Conference
Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Ruby on Rails is a Web Framework that is written in Ruby and allows developers to rapidly create web applications using code which favors convention over configuration.
In March 2010 55degrees were platinum sponsors of the first ever Scottish Ruby Conference. Over 300 attendees gathered in Edinburgh to network and be inspired by many of Europe’s leading Ruby and Rails developers. 55degrees is passionate about developing great web applications, and in this VOXUR film 55degrees wanted to capture the story of real passion that many developers have for code. VOXUR encouraged attendees tell us about their first time …… how they got into coding, their first computers, their coding superpower, what they love about Ruby and what they got from the conference.
The film also features some great hats.
