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BBC Blast Truck in White City, London 19th, 20th and 21st of July

2006-07-21

Hal MacLean and I joined the BBC Blast Truck in White City in the lead facilitation role, working with young people from the London region on digital creativity projects. Hal and I spent two days of the event working with a group of budding young enthusiasts interested in a career in television. We demonstrated to them the technologies before undertaking a tough filming task. On the first day of White City, we were joined by Ultralab's Colin Elsey and co-Blast Lead Facilitator Hamish Scott-Brown, who brought the young people from the Anglia Ruskin Summer School for a day on the truck undertaking an animation task. King Harold School's Malcolm Burnett arranged for a busload of his young people, spending their time between the truck events and the BBC's 21CC Creativity Centre. A large number of BBC staff were present for the three-day event; in particular, a strong presence of BBC mentors. These are people who work for the BBC, helping the young people with advice. The final day was completed with a big celebration of music, film and dance, attended by well over 100 people. A great time was had by all. Richard Millwood, Director of Ultralab, joined the finale event and filmed the per…

Topics: Learning technology

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