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Today I was part of a Skype IP telephone conference with Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s Malcolm Moss, Graham Hart and Hal MacLean on future marketing tools for Ultraversity, our radical new online degree for people fully occupied by full time employment. Skype allows us to make a telephone call through the Internet for free. While talking together

At Ultralab (1990-2006) we’ve been working together to test Marratech. We’ve had 8 people online today. The software is very good, although I think the price is its only major downfall. As a not-for-profit organisation, doing common good work to improve education through new and emerging technologies, we would not be able to justify the

Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s 100% Online Degree Ultraversity has been getting interest and coverage from media agencies worldwide. Radio Suffolk, the local service from the BBC approached me to feature Ultranaut remote worker, Tim Williams, a learning facilitator for Cohort 2 (the second intake of Student-Researchers) who works from his home in a village in Suffolk. Stephen

It was my turn yesterday to undertake a ‘Lunchtime Session’, which are organised by Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s Mac Software, I don’t think it would work on a PC, because I think PC’s are not very good (Q Blue Screen). SubEthaEdit allows users to connect to a single document and collaboratively change that document, with the ability

Learning, technology and research centre Ultralab (1990-2006) will be featured on BBC Essex Radio’s ‘Drive Time’ programme with Simon Baldock. A couple of weeks ago Swedish Television visited Ultralab (1990-2006) to find out more about Ultraversity and with continued international coverage of this groundbreaking degree, its only fitting that local radio covers the story too!

On the 24th of January I wrote about Ultralab (1990-2006)’s involvement in ‘Create at BETT’, the stand at the show in London’s Olympia for young people who are creative with new and emerging technologies. Ultralab (1990-2006) Director, Richard Millwood and myself have been building the Create at BETT website, which include the movies made by

I wrote yesterday about our expereinces with Marratech software. Today at 3pm group of five of us, including a live link in from Ian in Cornwall and our colleagues at transformation design company, Sodium. I am impressed with the software, it was as if James and Ian were in the same room. Mark is trouble

I’ve been working with Ultralab (1990-2006)’s Director, Richard Millwood on the Create at BETT website. To find out more about Create at BETT, follow this link to my article and read about it. The ‘Create at BETT’ website is built within the Plone content management system environment. Basically, I’m a big fan of Drupal, this

I’ve just been playing with Marratech Pro, 4.1.1. Marratech is a piece of conferenceware. The Ultralab (1990-2006) team is distributed nationwide, with a cluster of Ultranauts in Chelmsford. Ultralab (1990-2006) prides itself in its strong online community. Our long established internal systems allow our team to see the status and current news information associated to

Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s Dr. Stan Owers was the guest on BBC Essex Radio’s ‘Tea at Three programme with Liz Mullen. Click the following link to see the pictures and listen to the show: See the pictures and listen to Ultralab (1990-2006)’s Dr. Stan Owers on BBC Essex ‘Tea at Three’ with Liz Mullen Click to read