Post

British Council Thailand: Digital Creativity Workshops in Phuket

2005-10-12

Sorry I've been quiet on the blog front; things have been busy over in Thailand where Ultralab (1990-2006)'s Jonathan Furness and I have been working on a digital creativity workshop project for the British Council Thailand. We've been having an amazing time out here, based out of Phuket, working with children from the

Sorry I've been quiet on the blog front; things have been busy over in Thailand where Ultralab (1990-2006) 's Jonathan Furness and I have been working on a digital creativity workshop project for the British Council Thailand. We've been having an amazing time out here, based out of Phuket, working with children from the town of Pattani, a seven-hour drive away. We arrived last Sunday and are staying in a resort hotel, with lots of swimming pools and a really nice atmosphere. Our objective is to provide opportunities to young Muslim children who have no experience of the potential of digital media. We're interested in how they will cope with a tough challenge, with no skills in the area of digital film technology. What we've discovered in the past week is that children with absolutely no experience with technology fly with it. Photographs of Matthew Eaves and Jonathan Furness of Ultralab (1990-2006) in Phuket, Thailand, working with young people at a Digital Creativity Workshop for the British Council The young people spent a day with us learning how to use Apple 's iMovie application, a free programme which allows users to make a movie very easily with an Apple computer and a digit…

Topics: Learning technologyTravel

Matthew Eaves — escape room franchise founder, operator, and writer. Also: franchise, posts, contact.