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Posted on February 25, 2007
Posted in BBC Blast, learning technology creativity, Science Museum, Serpentine Gallery

Networked Identity

During the half term holiday in London Matt and I worked for the BBC running the Networked Identity project in association with the Science Museum and the Serpentine Gallery. This event was for young people to spend time finding ways of expressing their emotions about the environment that they are in. Working with us for

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Posted on January 18, 2007
Posted in BBC Blast, eMap, learning technology creativity

Get Creative at BETT 2007- reflecting on yet another busy show

For the sixth year it was nice to be invited back to be a part of ‘Create at BETT’, the creativity feature at the BETT Show held at London Olympia between the 10th and 13th of January. Create at BETT continues to be the only stand staffed by young people, not selling anything specific. The

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Posted on November 27, 2006
Posted in learning technology creativity

Exciting Minds Conference 2006, Manchester G-Mex with Creative Partnerships

Hal MacLean, Shirley Pickford and myself headed to Manchester’s G-Mex arena for the first ever ‘Exciting Minds’ conference and arena by Creative Partnerships. Shirley and myself represented the ‘Digital Teacher Network‘ which is a free online portal for teachers to manage projects online. 51 other exhibitors shared the arena with us, all based out of

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Posted on November 23, 2006
Posted in Bromley Learning Alliance, learning technology creativity

Bromley Learning Alliance Summer School Celebration Evening 2006

Hal MacLean and myself spent this evening with the young people and their families from the Bromley Learning Alliance 2006 Summer School, in Bromley. We headed down to celebrate the animation work created by the young people over the summer months. The challenge which was set back in July this year was to create a

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Posted on November 16, 2006
Posted in Caerleon Infant School, learning technology creativity

BBC Wales 2W Christmas Idents by Six Year Olds from Caerleon Infant School

The 14th, 15th and 16th of November now stand out as some of the best days in my career so far. We’ve worked long and hard to persue governments, broadcasters and education institutions to promote the fact that children are very creative when united with the power of enabling technologies. BBC Wales initiated a pilot

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Posted on October 27, 2006
Posted in BBC Blast, learning technology creativity

BBC Northern Ireland Mental Health Campaign Pilot… in animation!

I spent today (Friday 27th October) and yesterday at BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast working with the BBC Blast team on a new pilot project for BBC One NI’s Mental Health Campaign. I worked closely with Emma Majury and Rod from the local college to create a 90 second animation which followed a soundbite story

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Posted on October 20, 2006
Posted in Cressing Primary School, learning technology creativity

Cressing Primary School (Key Stage 1) Clay Animation with Six Year Olds

Hal MacLean and Matthew Eaves from the team spent the day with Class 2 at Cressing Primary School to undertake some experimental research into clay animation with six year olds. Mrs Harris and her classroom assistants were a great help throughout the day as fourteen six year old pupils took part. Click the above images

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Posted on October 13, 2006
Posted in learning technology creativity, Saffron Walden County High School

Saffron Walden County High School and Partner Primary Schools Summer School at Ultralab to Celebrate Creative Summer School Work

Today the Saffron Walden County High School and Partner Primary Schools came to Ultralab to spend the day with myself and Hal MacLean to work on the DVD case designs of their Summer School project. For this challenge the young people involved in the project learned how to work with the Photo Shop application. Thirty

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Posted on October 6, 2006
Posted in Bromley Learning Alliance, learning technology creativity

Bromley Learning Alliance preparations

Hal and Matt attended the Bromley Learning Alliance centre to round up and celebrate the work that the children were doing over the summer in their ’summer project’. Without a doubt these were films of a very high quality, and were made by children still in primary schools (mainly). The challenge was ‘A Twist of

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Posted on September 1, 2006
Posted in BBC Blast, learning technology creativity

BBC Blast Truck in Hull 31st August and 1st of September 2006

The BBC Blast Truck is being supported by the Ultralab team for a tour around the UK undertaking creative outreach work with young people. The big grey trucks rolled into Hull and were situated in Hull College car park for a two day visit with extended hours. The truck acted as a drop in centre