May 23, 2008

UK Trip 3: The London Tour and the London College of Communication

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:53 am

Meeting Henry VIII and the Dean of the College

London College of Communication

On our return to London Thursday, we took a bus tour through the city. I’m not much of a tourist, but with my son along, asking questions I managed to take in some history. George the 2nd (or was it the 3rd?) died on the toilet. The area down by Westminster Abbey is by far the most beautiful.

We saw the movie, “The Other Boleyn Girl” in Leicester Square later that night.

On Friday I took the tube down to Elephant and Castle to meet with Sue Pandit, the Dean of the London College of Communication. (Diane Keaton will play her in the movie.) She explained that their history as the London College of Printing was still thriving the print shop that still offers students one-color, two-color, and four-color presses as well as digital printing to produce magazines as well as surface printing, such as fashion design.

As Sue and I talked about the social web, I mentioned that conversations and relationships are happening underneath the surface of the Internet. She mentioned that, like so many, she tended to read the blogs of people in her industry, but only the blog posts not the comments that followed. I could see her become intrigued with what she might be missing.

Later in our discussion, Sue invited Chris Linford, a senior professor and lecturer to join us. When he walked in he mentioned that he knew my blog. During our conversation, Chris said that each semester his first job is getting students over fear of html. Most of the students at the college who blog use WordPress 2.3. When I asked about WordPress 2.5, Chris said, “Our IT guys won’t let us use anything in Beta.” He also said they use Wimba.

Meeting Henry

Liz Strauss and HenryVIII

It just wouldn’t be right to visit London and not take my son to Madame Tussauds House of Wax. We went Friday afternoon. It’s there I met Henry.

A third university and picture with a king. (Do you think he’ll call?) Not a bad day.

The question of the day was: What place do you think print will have in future communications?

How would you answer that one?

More to come about UK universities. [Check back for my answer yesterday's question from at Oxford. now.]

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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5 Comments to “UK Trip 3: The London Tour and the London College of Communication”

  1. May 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
    Philip Robert said

    Meeting King Henry VIII. Talk about mixed media. Recently I’ve gone on a huge obsession with Henry VIII. It began on the television with Showtime’s “The Tudors.” That led me to have a look at Henry on Wikipedia, then The Other Boleyn Girl opened and I got to see this part of the story on the big screen. Talking to a friend of mine about the movie, she gave me the book, and as I was reading the book I kept going back into the internet to cross check facts, names, and places.

    It’s been a fascinating journey, but I have to admit that I haven’t made it to London or Madame Tussaud’s just yet.

    Is print media dying? I think it must eventually because of the technology improvements being made. It will become much easier for our children to read their books on a computer or something like a Kindle than it will for us. I still prefer having a nice hefty book over a computer. It’s the whole concept of turning the pages that makes it work for me.

    For the time being though, I think print is very much alive.

  2. May 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Phillip Robert!
    My son was extremely disappointed that Henry wasn’t fat in the movie. The movie sure showed him in a good light, don’t you think?

    I’m wondering whether books might not always have a place? maybe not, but I sure hope so.

  3. May 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
    Philip Robert said

    Of course the movie and the Showtime series “The Tudors” show a younger Henry. From what I’ve read on wikipedia Henry was an athlete in his younger days and it is wide remarked in sources across the internet that he was the handsomest prince in Christendom.

    Books will always have a place. The question is how will they be delivered? Paper or Digital Paper? I think that it will become a matter of resources and longevity. If it is something important I think that paper will stand for many many years because we know that paper lasts for a long time. How else do we know anything of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn except for records, stories, and biographies written on paper.

    Eventually technology will take over and for the most part we’ll read our books on something like Amazon’s Kindle. Until then… May the word printed on paper rule!

  4. May 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Phillip!
    I know that Henry must have had something going for him besides his ego. OR he never would have been able to pull the whole thing off,

    I still hope we get to turn pages for as long as I live.

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