education action zone | Matthew Eaves

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Posted on November 23, 2006
Posted in Bromley Learning Alliance, learning technology creativity

Bromley Learning Alliance Summer School Celebration Evening 2006

Hal MacLean and myself spent this evening with the young people and their families from the Bromley Learning Alliance 2006 Summer School, in Bromley. We headed down to celebrate the animation work created by the young people over the summer months. The challenge which was set back in July this year was to create a

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Posted on July 10, 2006
Posted in learning technology creativity, Saffron Walden County High School

Saffron Walden County High School and Partner Primary Schools at Ultralab

Today 30 young people from Saffron Walden County High School and their partner feeder Primary Schools attended a training day at Ultralab to learn how to animate, make music and film for their 2006 Summer Challenge. Every year the Ultralab team set a tough challenge to these schools to complete over the summer months. Patrick

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Posted on June 12, 2006
Posted in Bromley Learning Alliance, learning technology creativity

Bromley Summer School kicks off with Hal MacLean

Hal spent the day in the Bromley area working with partner schools on their Summer programme of activities. Bromley Learning Alliance, the organisation behind the initiative hires in Ultralab each year to set the summer challenge for young people with their region. Previously to working with the BLA Ultralab worked with SEEVEAZ (South East of

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on July 20, 2005
Posted in learning technology creativity, Saffron Walden County High School

SummerSchool 2005 for Saffron Walden County High School & Primary Partners iMovie, Garage Band, iStopMotion, Comic Life

Ultralab the learning, technology and research centre based at Anglia Polytechnic University in Chelmsford, Essex have been working over many years in the field of Digital Creativity. Ultralab’s ‘SummerSchool project was initially formed in mid 2000, in association with SEEVEAZ which stands for the South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone. SEEVEAZ had a

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on January 24, 2005
Posted in Alderman Peel High School, eMap, Fakenham High School, learning technology creativity, Reepham High School, Rural Norfolk Federation

CREATE AT BETT 2005 – Creative Norfolk and Essex Schools rule the show!

I’ve been so busy since returning from the 2005 BETT Show that I’ve not had a chance to write a full review of Ultralab‘s involvement in the show. 2005’s BETT show took place on Tuesday 11 January to Saturday 15 January 2004. Each year learning, technology & research centre Ultralab work on the ‘creativity stand’

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on July 19, 2001
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

Emotions Film Research Project starts with SEEVEAZ

The next Summer School project called ‘Emotions’ has begun with a new batch of ‘Researchers’ had to ‘tell an emotional’ story about a word. Each child picked one word out of a hat out of a possible 100 words. The first challenge, in groups of 4, was to decide which of the words picked out

By - Matthew Eaves
Posted on December 12, 2000
Posted in learning technology creativity, SEEVEAZ

Transformation Digital Creativity Project concludes at the Millenium Dome

SEEVEAZ (South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone) approached Ultralab to ‘do something creative’ with children during the month of August 2000. The ‘action zones’ were set up as part of a government initiative to support schools within regions who had not fully adopted technology within their teaching and learning. SEEVEAZ became the only