Category: Blog

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

Thanks to all the staff and students at SEEVIC College in Benfleet Essex for making the team from Anglia Polytechnic University so welcome at your careers day. Ian van der Linde and myself spoke together at various sessions, Ian represented APU’s Faculty of Science and Technology and spoke primarily abou the APU campus and its

I pointed out the other day some ideas to climb Google the search engine. Read what I wrote here: The purpose of a blog….and the power of blogging, a whole new media source….be afraid, be very afraid. …and our Gina was number 3 in Google, now she is number 1….. . The power of blogging

Thanks to everyone who organised and attended the ‘Multimedia in Education and Learning’ seminar at Anglia Polytechnic University today. Thanks to Roger Clark and Emily, and to Ultralab (1990-2006)’s Maureen and Mark for excellent organisation and food. Martin Spaul, Richard Millwood and myself presented at the seminar. Please click ‘Add comment’ below if you would

Thanks to the team from APU Chelmsford Library for coming together for an introduction to Ultralab (1990-2006) with Mark and myself today at 9:30 – 10:30. Was really interesting meeting you, if you have any questions or thoughts regarding the technologies and projects we discussed, please add a comment below, or phone or email. Have

I’ve been playing with .mac from Apple. I’m a heavy Mac user and was keen to explore the extra features .mac customer have when opening a £69 a year .mac account. I’ve signed up for the trial and am exploring the features, I’ think it is pretty good, but I also think that it is