Swedish TV at Ultralab

Today a film crew from Sweden arrived to make a programme featuring the team at Ultralab. The team interviewed Alice Mitchell, Stephen Powell, Kris Popat, Vicki Swan and myself to talk about various Ultralab projects and initiatives, in particular mobile learning, inclusion and digital creativity. The programme will be aired in Sweden next month. Some

CREATE AT BETT 2005 – Creative Norfolk and Essex Schools rule the show!

I’ve been so busy since returning from the 2005 BETT Show that I’ve not had a chance to write a full review of Ultralab‘s involvement in the show. 2005’s BETT show took place on Tuesday 11 January to Saturday 15 January 2004. Each year learning, technology & research centre Ultralab work on the ‘creativity stand’

ICDC Project – Hull

I have spent the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Hull with Ultralab’s Kris Popat to work at the Andrew Marvel School on Ultralab’s ICDC (International Certificate in Digital Creativity) project. The project is being undertaken in conjunction with Creative Partnerships and exists to explore the assessment of Creativity. The young people spent the week making

Be Very Afraid at BAFTA today!

Today some of the Ultralab team spent their time working at the big ‘Be Very Afraid’ event at BAFTA. Ultralab played host to a morning celebration of student and children’s digital creativity. The event was supported by funding from the DfES and showcased stunning digital creativity. Students from ten schools, colleges and universities invited questions

Digital Creativity Celebration huge hit to audience at V&A

An audience of three hundred attended the 4th annual Summer School creativity celebration at the Victoria & Albert museum in London. The event, which showcases the movies by the children is projected in the V&A’s prestigious lecture theatre, which they then defend from questions from the audience was an amazing experience, as ever, for all

Spending time at TVNZ

I have been spending the last three days working from the TVNZ buildings during my tour of New Zealand to explore creativity. At TVNZ I am working with Liz Donnelly on a proposal which would see television content created by young people for broadcast on the ‘TV2’ channel. The work we are doing builds on