Playful Communications

01 Feb ‘Best Friends’ by Jacqueline Wilson – QR Book Review

Posted at 20:23h in AudioBoo, Digital Storytelling, MysteryBoxes, QR, QR Reviews, Uncategorized by hellojon 2 Comments

From time to time my kids do reviews of books they've read on AudioBoo. I tag the post with a...

28 Jan X-Men take on Instagram

Posted at 16:15h in apps, digital imaging, Digital Storytelling, film making, instagram, social media, video by hellojon 0 Comments

Regardless of what some might say about Instagram, Facebook were sufficiently interested to pay $1Billion for an 18 month old...

21 Jan Visual Storytelling Made Simple: Storehouse for iPad

Posted at 16:01h in apps, Digital Storytelling, documentation, education, Flickr, graphic design, instagram, iPad, photography, review, schools, social media, Storify, Technology, Uncategorized, video by hellojon 3 Comments

Did you know that the very first version of Instagram (Burbn) was intended as a ‘Swiss army knife’ of an...

20 Jan Brand: Great Expectations and the Outside In

Posted at 08:05h in identity/logos, Scottish Social Service Council, service design, Social Services, SSSC, Uncategorized by hellojon 0 Comments

Like all living things, organisations only look good and work properly on the outside when all is well on the inside. Jason...

18 Jan Capture. Edit. Share: Film Making on iPad

Posted at 02:08h in digital imaging, Digital Storytelling, education, film making, iPad, Living Communities, McManus, schools, Sense of Place, Uncategorized, video, workshops, youtube by hellojon 0 Comments

Over the last few years I've been running workshops using iPads; video editing, audio (AudioBoo), animation, image manipulation and more....

13 Jan #ScotMKLS

Posted at 13:00h in apps, documentation, event, Flickr, Mozilla Open Badges, photography, Scottish Social Service Council, service design, social media, Social Services, SSSC, Technology, Uncategorized, workshops by hellojon 0 Comments

#ScotMKLS, a set on Flickr. Photos from last week's Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) #ScotMKLS event (Mobile Knowledge & Learning Solutions). Lots...

20 Dec Sense of Place – part three

Posted at 08:03h in Digital Storytelling, documentation, education, event, film making, Game Design, games based learning, Masters, McManus, MysteryBoxes, National Museum of Scotland, primary, QR, schools, Sense of Place, social media, St Andrews, Technology, Twitter by hellojon 0 Comments

I started using QR Codes in 2010 - firstly to see if I could add any value to advertising. I...

13 Dec Sense of Place – part two

Posted at 10:22h in digital imaging, Digital Storytelling, documentation, education, event, film making, McManus, National Museum of Scotland, QR, Sense of Place, youtube by hellojon 0 Comments

Last night was the 'private view' opening of the Sense of Place exhibition (see previous post) - what a great...

09 Dec Sense of Place – part one

Posted at 21:42h in Digital Storytelling, education, film making, graphic design, instagram, McManus, National Museum of Scotland, schools, Sense of Place by hellojon 1 Comment

Having worked on the Living Communities project in Perth I was keen to carve out a deeper 'educational-digital-projects-that-are-not-dull' kind of niche...

20 Nov Penumbra Challenge

Posted at 11:47h in AudioBoo, Digital Storytelling, Penumbra Challenge, service design, Social Services, SSSC, Uncategorized, workshops by hellojon 0 Comments

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