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

After the Tsunami, film making on the beach at Patong, Thailand, working with Muslim Children – making film, music, and animations

I’m conscious that I’ve not written much about the time I spent late last year with Jonathan Furness in Thailand. I’ve written a news article now, and here it is: Ultralab commissioned by British Council to work in Thailand with communities after the Tsunami It is hard to believe that the beautiful beach town of

Swedish TV at Ultralab

Today a film crew from Sweden arrived to make a programme featuring the team at Ultralab. The team interviewed Alice Mitchell, Stephen Powell, Kris Popat, Vicki Swan and myself to talk about various Ultralab projects and initiatives, in particular mobile learning, inclusion and digital creativity. The programme will be aired in Sweden next month. Some

Ultralab's Lifeboats.TV project main project begins in Weymouth, Dorset 22nd and 23rd of January 2002

One year after the initial pilot in Burnham-on-Crouch we were off. Colin, Mark and Matthew headed to Dorset to meet and interview the Weymouth Lifeboat crew and their families. With 40 people to interview it was no easy task, we had to break up into three film crews to capture the footage. Pete Bradshaw from

2001's Digital Creativity Summer School films celebrated at V&A in London

The results from the 2001 project are amazing, with 17 excellent movies. The movies were turned into a DVD and exhibited at the V&A (Victorla and Albert) museum in an evening celebration of digital creativity managed by the Ultralab team. Click to watch the audience arrive. The film ‘Tacky’ stretched the possibilities of iMovie 2,