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I had a very interesting telephone conference initiated by Microsoft today. It was about a potential collaboration project to be held throughout Scandinavian countries next year. At the moment we are in planning stage but it is obvious that the is some terrific potential for another learning, technology and research project.

I like Drupal, it is very slick. Drupal is the free community software, stored on my server at Ultralab (1990-2006) which serves this dynamic driven website. I’ve moved from ‘Movable Type‘ to Drupal because of the constant spamming of the comments fields by the nasty internet spam people within my previous Movable Type managed homepage.

Our friends at BBC Blast! will be visiting Ultralab (1990-2006) again soon to film some stuff for BBC2 about our SummerSchool project. The stuff filmed here in June with the children is due for broadcast on and around Novermber 4, along with the animations produced. Will update with progress! Our relationship developed with Childrens BBC

Martin Doherty of Ultralab (1990-2006) and myself have been working hard on finding a collaboration tool which lets many people contribute to the same document over the web to collaborate to together and edit the same document online. We found Squeak Swiki very easy to install and use on our own server after Swiki.net just

Today we were visited by Andrew, one of our project partners, representing SEEVEAZ. ‘SEEVEAZ’ stands for South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone. We’ve worked with SEEVEAZ since early 2000 and together pioneered the initial SEEVEAZ/Ultralab (1990-2006) SummerSchool together. Check out the SummerSchool website for more information on how the project has evolved. SEEVEAZ

Martin Doherty and myself are two of the team involved in the Executive Learning Workgroup project. We are working in conjunction with The Oracle Corporation and various Business Schools across Europe to discover and move forward the future of Executive Learning. Ultralab (1990-2006) is acting as the researching party in the project, Martin will be

Wow, it was nearly 2 years ago Richard Millwood and myself had our tour of BBC Television Centre prior to the launch of ‘Input CBBC’ in Sheffield and Hull. CBBC stands for Childrens BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). The BBC are the worlds largest public broadcaster and are based in White City in London. In early

Ultralab (1990-2006)’s Maureen Gurr and myself headed into London on Wednesday to meet with the planning group who decide, propose and plan the BETT Creativity Zone feature at The BETT Show in London. BETT happens every January. I have been involved for the past three years in the feature stand, which is one of the

“It’s an unlikely place to find a guru. A drab 1960s block in the middle of the only English university still to call itself a polytechnic. But the Chelmsford campus of the Anglia Polytechnic University (APU) is home to a remarkable institution – Ultralab (1990-2006). Here for the past 15 years Stephen Heppell has been

Hal and myself spent Monday and Tuesday this week in Rural Norfolk with the Rural Norfolk Federation (RNF) on our new joint collaboration project. The RNF project is a joint venture to bring together rural secondary schools in Norfolk. Most of the children who attended the 4 schools have to travel from far and wide