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Yesterday got me thinking about others killed in the name of war. My Great Grandfather was killed in action in World War One. He is burried in Ypres in Belgium. I plan on visiting the grave later this year, or early next year. We’re trying to find out his name at the moment! He died

Paper – Cathy Derrick: Input CBBC Cathy is a children’s television producer working in the CBBC Future TV Unit, where currently she is producing ‘Input CBBC’, a children’s user-generated content project. Prior to this she produced the CBBC Access System, an integrated phone/text/web system for the CBBC digital channel. Cathy has worked on a number

Blast on BBC Two is a showcase of films made by young people with feedback from creative industry pros (Professor Stephen Heppell, Hal MacLean, Matthew Eaves). You can also re-live the excitement at Blast workshops and performances across music, dance, art, film and writing. Listings Thursday   4 November 0400 – 0600am Thursday 11 November 0400

My Mum is a Londoner, in it. It is rare to spend a long time looking through a website for more than an hour, without moving on…and two websites have me facinated by their content today. Derelict London . com explores the state of some of London’s places, transport and cemerery’s left to fall to

Witham, the town I live in was without power from 7:15 am to 10:30 pm yesterday. Arriving home to a town in complete darkness, where traffic lights do not work and street lamps were lightless was an interesting experience. A sub station had caught fire on the other side of town, knocking out all the

Someone asked me the other day what Ultralab (1990-2006) (my employer) is. The Ultralab (1990-2006) Mission is… “To research, apply and disseminate the benefits of new technologies, seeking to develop an empowering, creative and delightful learning environment that knows no boundaries.” and here is a really good article published by the Financial Times a year

Reflecting on  the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s launch of Lifeboats.TV. Together we worked on a project which was developed to engage young people in the Lifeboat service, with a vision that todays young people would show a lifelong interest in the safety of our seas and ensure funding and volunteers were available in their twilight

Hmmmm, why is it that every newspaper report always has a mistake…. Anglia University is actually Anglia Polytechnic University and… ‘What If’ is actually ‘IF:THEN’… And where do they think up the names for these articles? Nevermind!!! Press Article Text: What If we made a film? (Photo: MOVIE MAKERS: Fourteen-year-olds Ilsa Haeusler, Gerome Oldfield, Amy

Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s Hal MacLean and myself stayed at the Ostrich Inn, South Creake in North Norfolk while working on Ultralab (1990-2006)’s joint collaboration project with The Rural Norfolk Federation. This hotel was great, you get to cook your own breakfast from the fresh farm products found in your room fridge. The location is very peaceful

Today while surfing around the Internet I came across Ultralab (1990-2006)‘s BETT Show Pictures from The BETT Education Show, Olympia, from January 2004. Go take a look :-).