Author: Matthew Eaves

Its Friday, its 9:20pm, we’ve been working on the new Ultralab (1990-2006) website now for 12 hours. Its dark, its 10 miles from home, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Now Ultralab (1990-2006) Director; Richard Millwood, Jonathan Furness and myself are watching The Blues Brothers on the big screen in the Anglia Room….eating pizza and chips. If

Looking through old photographs, this picture was taken in early 2001, one of my first team meeting at Ultralab (1990-2006) when I had dodgy hair and ate too many pies. Where has time gone?

Ultralab (1990-2006) the learning, technology and research centre based at Anglia Polytechnic University in Chelmsford, Essex have been working over many years in the field of Digital Creativity. Ultralab (1990-2006)’s ‘SummerSchool project was initially formed in mid 2000, in association with SEEVEAZ which stands for the South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone. SEEVEAZ

It is common knowledge that the schools in and around London are ever increasing their intake of children from foreign backgrounds. The assumption (if somewhat stereotypical) has always been that these students stick with their own kind and excel in subjects such as science, maths and music because they boast a somewhat ‘universal’ language. Schools

Today Jonathan Furness and myself headed down to our friends at BBC Essex Radio to feature on ‘Sound Advice’ an hour long programme hosted by Simon Baldock. Jonathan and I answered listeners questions regarding computer technical problems and spoke for some time on the evolution of blogging. Listeners, as explained on the show, we’ll do

Ultralab (1990-2006), the learning, technology and research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University has a rich team of people based in Chelmsford, and remotely across the United Kingdom. Communication is therefore a challenge, and this random blog post today simply points out that Skype and iChat as technologies to communicate verbally other than the standard telephone

Last week Granada Television were filming in Park Road Chelmsford for a documentary which will be broadcast on Sky Television later in the year. Ultralab (1990-2006) is based at Anglia Polytechnic University in Chelmsford, and our entrance is off of Park Road. Down Park Road is two rows of boarded up housing, which belong to

Yesterday evening I headed to the Cineworld cinema in Braintree to watch Batman Begins. I’ve not seen a Batman movie in the cinema since Batman Returns back in 1992. The story follows how Batman came into existence, I’m not really a fan of these movies but the trailor for the film is excellent, and made