Matthew Eaves

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Matthew Eaves is Director at Creative Learning Systems Ltd

Cleveratom (2006-2011) Move Delayed

We’re meant to be moving today from our home ‘Ongar Towers’ at the Essex Technology & Innovation Centre into our new bigger offices in Springfield Road, Chelmsford. Solicitors moving slowly (not ours!) has resulted in a slight delay, until that moment we remain at Ongar. So contact details remain the same, we’ll release our new
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MacBook Pro Rocks!

We’ve just upgraded our computers at Cleveratom (2006-2011), we now have MacBook Pro’s. Running applications for me are now a lot lot faster, my G4 Powerbook was getting very slow. Migrating from one Mac to another is very easy. Using a firewire lead simply link together and migrate! Hal and I were astonished by the
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Quick Update – New Staff, New Board, New Office, New Projects…..

We’ve been running now for five months, enjoying the projects and experiences. We got to the point where we needed somebody to help us deliver on some of our technology based projects, and we’ve interviewed and hired our first employee… Welcome to Damian who will be joining us shortly. Our project list has been expanding
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Millie the Kitten!

Last month I wrote about Molly, our new kitten. Molly has been with us for nearly a month and has been getting on really well. She is nearly double the size when she first moved in, and is finding gaps she used to take shortcuts through when exploring are now too small for her…. Kittens
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Virtually There | Learning Platforms – Launched in Castleford!

First things first…. The Department for Education and Skills have made it clear that every child in the UK must have access to a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) by the close of 2008. With 24,000 schools in England and Wales (and one more brand new school opening every 4 days(ish))….this is a big challenge…….but as
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Virtually There : Learning Platforms Book first proof arrives at Cleveratom (2006-2011)

Today we saw the first proof of the ‘Virtually There’ booklet full of case studies of schools involved in our project with the YHGfL to evaluate Virtual Learning Environments in schools. 2500 of these books are being printed as I write this…. the DVD’s I mentioned here yesterday are clipped in the back. We’re really
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2500 DVD’s Evaluating Virtual Learning Environments (Learning Platforms) arrive at Cleveratom (2006-2011)

Our team have been doing an evaluation of virtual learning environments for the Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning Foundation (YHGfL). As part of the process we’ve been filming in schools across the Yorkshire and Humber region to find out how the selected seven schools implemented various virtual learning environments into school life. 2500 further
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Cleveratom (2006-2011) run Anglia Ruskin University Summer School 2007

It was very nice to walk back into the Anglia Ruskin University buildings last Thursday and Friday to run the University Summer School. I left Anglia Ruskin University in December 2006 when its Ultralab (1990-2006) was closed down. Every year the University runs a Summer School programme to attract new students, the idea of the
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