Rugroom Learners film 2009 Asperger's Conference

Matt from our team spent today supporting learners with Asperger’s Syndrome from RUGROOM at City College Norwich filming a conference abou Asperger’s. For this project the learners had to learn how to use the broadcast quality camera and how to record sound. Matt has had a long relationship with the RUGROOM project helping to embed

Rugroom Learners Radio Productions Begin

For the past year Matt has been working with RUGROOM at City College Norwich to build a new Radio Studio for the specific and dedicated use of learners with Asperger’s Syndrome. Matt works with learners and staff to understand how radio works, and to start the production of shows. Here are some images from some

Rugroom Celebrates winning Beacon Award

Rugroom is a learning space for learners with Asperger’s Syndrome. Matt and Hal have been involved in the project since 2007 and have helped work with learners and staff to embed creative use of technology into the teaching and learning. The project has just won a Beacon Award for widening participation, which means it is

NHS Mental Health Filming

Hal and Matt do a lot of film work all over the country and to give you a flavour of one of our projects, here are some photographs of the filming we conducted for the NHS: Our team often work with chroma technology, and teach this to learners in schools too. We were pleased to

Anglia Ruskin University Broadcast Summer School 2009

30th April – 1st May 2009: Anglia Ruskin University are committed to encouraging participation to University and have a dedicated ‘Widening Participation’ team who work across the East Anglia region with schools and colleges to show students first hand what university life is like by engaging prospective students in real University situations. Hal MacLean and myself

Rugroom Learners demonstrate Creativity at BETT

Since 2002 our team have been showcasing the best creativity in learning projects at BETT Show, the UK’s largest technology in education show. This year our team worked on a stand with RUGROOM Asperger’s Syndrome learners showcasing the technology in learning projects we’ve been working on together which includes Radio, Television and Animation. Some images

3DGeoArt Project showcased at BAFTA – and how to make your own 3DGeoArt too!

AS (Aspergers Syndrome) students at City College Norwich were on fine form at Professor Stephen Heppell’s annual ‘Be Very Afraid’ event held at London’s BAFTA headquarters in Piccadilly on Monday 27 October 2008. Professor Heppell runs the event (now in its 5th year) to showcase the extraordinary projects involving new technologies in learning throughout the