Fasttrack DVD Production Completed and Distributed Nationally

The Fasttrack Community was one of several developed for the National College for School Leadership by Ultralab and originally used the Think.com software, later to become ‘Talk2Learn’. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES), who were the ‘owners’ of the Fasttrack project, requested a training DVD to help users learn about how the community software

First Film Peace Project rolls out in Belfast, Northern Ireland

For the first time ever the Ultralab Digital Creativity Summer School programme went international. The project went to Northern Ireland, working as part of the peace process with Catholic and Protestant children to see what could be created using the Summer School model over a three day period within a community environment. The results were

Input CBBC project participants from Sheffield and Hull celebrate in London

All the young people who took part in the ‘Input CBBC’ project in Sheffield and Hull headed on coaches to BBC Television Centre to spend the day celebrating the hard work undertaken on the project. Late last year the young people from schools, city learning and community centres were invited to participate in an Ultralab/BBC

Lifeboats.TV Burnham on Crouch

The Lifeboats.TV team rolled into Burnham-on-Crouch today to begin the film research for the RNLI’s Lifeboats.TV website. Thanks to all the team from Burnham involved in the pilot filming. Team: Matthew Eaves (Ultralab) Colin Elsey (Ultralab) George Variopoulos (Ultralab) From the initial footage, George Variopoulos made this initial film (it will take a while to

RNLI calls on young people and Ultralab to explore image and brand perception

On 19 January 2001 the very creative SEEVEAZ Summer School researchers came together at Burnham-on-Crouch Lifeboat Station to assist with Ultralab’s joint project with the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) to come up with ideas how the lifeboat service could be made ‘cool’ in the eyes of young people. Ultralab used the research findings to

Transformation Digital Creativity Project concludes at the Millenium Dome

SEEVEAZ (South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone) approached Ultralab to ‘do something creative’ with children during the month of August 2000. The ‘action zones’ were set up as part of a government initiative to support schools within regions who had not fully adopted technology within their teaching and learning. SEEVEAZ became the only